By Andrew Warshaw
June 14 – The all-important hearing into whether football’s governing bodies had the legal right to sanction the much-maligned European Super League clubs will take place on July 11 and 12, potentially shaping the future of the game for years to come.
June 14 – The UEFA Nations League is producing some pretty unexpected results , and all this a few months before the kick-off to the Qatar World Cup. Teams are testing and some cannot be too happy.
June 13 – A US judge has dismissed a rape allegation lawsuit against Cristiano Ronaldo because of the way documents were obtained by the accuser’s legal team.
By Samindra Kunti
June 10 – In a new revealing French senate session, Paris police chief Didier Lallement has admitted that the claim of 30,000-40,000 ticketless Liverpool fans at the European Cup final in Paris wasn’t based on any scientific reality, but he defended the use of teargas to disperse the fans.
June 9 – French FA (FFF) president Noel Le Graet has criticisbnbnbed the congested calendar with the current four-match Nations League window drawing the last bit of physical strength from Europe’s elite players.
June 7 – The winners of this summer’s Women’s Euro 2022 in England will face the winners of July’s Copa America Femenina in Colombia in a women’s Finalissima.
June 6 – French President Emmanuel Macron has waded into the debate over the Champions League final debacle by insisting that ticket holders who were denied entry to the Stade de France by security personnel should be compensated “as soon as possible”.
June 6 – The Ukrainian Premier League is planning on resuming from August despite the ongoing war with Russia following approval by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
June 6 – England manager Gareth Southgate has expressed his dismay after a crowd made up almost entirely of schoolchildren booed the England team for taking the knee before Saturday’s Nations League game against Hungary in Budapest.
June 6 – Managers normally quit clubs either to move on to bigger and better or because they are sacked.
By Paul Nicholson
June 4 – In stark contrast to the French authorities who refuse to accept any blame for the shameful scenes that occurred before and after the Champions League final in Paris, UEFA has issued an apology to fans and reiterated that it has commissioned an independent review of the incident and that the findings will be published in full.
By Samindra Kunti
June 3 – In a three-hour debate in the French senate, French interior minister Gérald Darmanin and sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéa shied away from taking any responsibility for the dangerous chaos at the Champions League final on Saturday in Paris, repeating the bizarre claim that 50%-70% of tickets were counterfeit.
June 1 – In a shift from blaming late fan arrivals to fake tickets, the French FA (FFF) has said that 35,000 supporters coming to the Stade de France for Saturday’s chaotic Champions League final in Paris had no tickets or counterfeit tickets, echoing what French authorities claimed on Monday, but with a slightly different number.
June 1 – Italy and Argentina meet at a sold-out Wembley Stadium tonight pitting the European and South American champions in a new showpiece fixture dubbed ‘Finalissima’.
June 1 – England’s game against Hungary in Budapest on Saturday, which was scheduled to be played behind closed doors, will now have a crowd in excess of 30,000, according to UK media reports.