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French League loses court battle with FFF over relegation places

Le Graet and Thiriez

By Mark Baber
February 4 – France’s highest administrative court – the Conseil d’Etat – has ruled against the French Football League’s legal bid to reduce the number of teams relegated from the top flight from three to two.

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Is Prince Ali’s latest election blast over FIFA funding block an own goal?

Prince Ali Al bin-Hussein

By Andrew Warshaw
February 4 – FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin al-Hussein is back on the offensive, this time over the controversial decision to block $20 million in funding to CONMEBOL and CONCACAF, the two confederations at the centre of football’s worst ever corruption crisis.

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Struggling Villa finally land a big money signing with new Guvnor

Lord King

By David Owen
February 4 – After a barren January transfer window, Aston Villa, the Premier League’s basement club, have completed a new signing. Step forward Lord King of Lothbury, former Governor of the Bank of England, who has joined the Birmingham club’s board of directors.

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Sexwale battles for African support as CAF ponders options

Tokyo Sexwale4

By Andrew Warshaw
February 4 – Speculation that Tokyo Sexwale will pull out of the race to become FIFA president has been fuelled by his continuing inability to secure the unequivocal backing of his own South African federation, let alone the African Continent as whole.

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DraftKings splash land in Premier League with Arsenal and Liverpool

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By Paul Nicholson
February 4 – The expected entry of the giant US Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) operators into the so-far under exploited European markets has happened with a bang, with Boston-based DraftKings landing in the English market with deals with Arsenal, Liverpool and Watford.

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FIFPro slams FIFA reforms as useless for its player members

FIFPro logo

February 4 – Proposed reforms to clean up football’s scandal-plagued world governing body will not in any way benefit the players, according to their union FIFPro.

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Neymar now faces Brazil courts over new tax cheat claims

Neymar Brazil

February 4 – Brazilian star Neymar, already embroiled in a legal case over his move to Barcelona, is now facing separate allegations of tax evasion.

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Mutko hints of secret FIFA presidential hustings event pre-election day

Vitaly Mutko5

By Andrew Warshaw
February 4 – The five rivals running for FIFA president have agreed to hold a private summit in mid-February shortly before the February 26 election to succeed Sepp Blatter, according to FIFA’s Russian powerbroker Vitaly Mutko, one of the most influential figures in European football.

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Russia unveils Confed Cup 2017 branding with 500 days to go before kick off

Confed Cup 2017 official logo

By Paul Nicholson
February 4 – With all the noise around FIFA presidential elections and reform you could be forgiven for forgetting that the Confederations Cup, the warm-up for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, is just 500 days away. That is unless you were in the GUM department store by Red Square in Moscow yesterday.

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David Owen: Infantino’s general secretary and the Confederations’ unhealthy grip on FIFA

Even the slickest, best choreographed media events – and I have attended few slicker than this week’s descent on Wembley by FIFA Presidential candidate Gianni Infantino and his footballing legends – have revealing moments.

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A message from Germany to Qatar: We like your money but we don’t like you

Germany and Qatar directions

By Mark Baber
February 3 – A German court has ruled former president of the German soccer federation Theo Zwanziger was exercising his right to free speech in referring to Qatar as a “cancerous growth of world football” just as Germany’s most successful club, Bayern Munich, signed a partnership with Qatar’s Hamad International Airport.

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Exclusive: Scala ruling questions integrity of CONCACAF and CONMEBOL leadership

FIFA signage

By Andrew Warshaw
February 3 – The growing influence of Domenico Scala as the prime mover in the drive to clean up FIFA has been further underlined by this week’s unprecedented ruling to block $20 million of payments to CONCACAF and CONMEBOL, the two confederations most seriously damaged by football’s ongoing corruption scandal.

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Zero tolerance? UEFA halves Dynamo Kiev’s racism sanctions in time for Man City visit

Dynamo Kiev racism

February 3 – Dynamo Kiev will no longer have to face Manchester City in the Champions League behind closed doors after UEFA’s appeals committee controversially reduced a sanction imposed for racist behaviour and crowd disturbances.

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Sunderland and Dafabet look east with Chinese language web site

Sunderland in China

By Mark Baber
February 3 – Sunderland AFC have become the latest Premier League club to launch a Mandarin version of their web site, building on the success of their Chinese social media platforms Sina Weibo and Tencent WeChat and working in association with the club’s principal partner Dafabet.

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Russia and Italy roll in behind Infantino as Europe falls into line

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By Andrew Warshaw
February 3 – Just days after dismissing Gianni Infantino’s World Cup promises as pure electioneering, Russian football boss Vitaly Mutko says his federation will support him at the February 26 ballot to succeed Sepp Blatter.

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