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- Wenger - Premier League plans are dead
- LONDON AFP — Arsene Wenger fears Premier League plans to play a round of fixtures in cities across the world have been killed off by the negative response to the proposals. Wenger was one of the few leading figures in the game not to completely reject the scheme when...
- Research articles 2008-02-22
- English Premier League vows to press on with plans for overseas matches
- LONDON AFP — The man behind a plan to take English Premier League EPL matches around the world insisted on Wednesday that he remained on track to turn his controversial proposals into reality. EPL Chief Executive Richard Scudamore has had to contend with a furious reaction from fans and...
- Research articles 2008-02-13
- UEFA chief Platini pleads for additional referees
- ZAGREB AFP — UEFA chief Michel Platini Thursday repeated his support for the introduction of two additional assistant referees, positions he said could be taken by referees obliged to retire aged 45. "There will be trials this year, notably in Chile, regarding participation of two additional assistant referees who...
- Research articles 2008-01-31
- South Africa okays name changes to World Cup 2010 host cities
- JOHANNESBURG AFP — South Africa's process of renaming towns and cities will not have a negative effect on the staging of the football World Cup in the country in 2010, officials said on Tuesday. While the names of various host cities were being changed, they would be coupled with...
- Research articles 2007-08-07
- Stocks to Watch - MAGS, NAPS, SAY, CWLZ.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 July 2007-SmallCapReview: Stocks to Watch - MAGS, NAPS, SAY, CWLZC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31072007 To sign up for our Free Newsletter visit http://www.smallcapreview.com/subscribe.htm Magal Security Systems (Nasdaq: MAGS) Closed at $9.10. Today announced that it recently...
- Research articles 2007-07-31
- FIFA meet with FA and Premier league over Tevez affair
- PARIS AFP — World football's governing body FIFA on Monday met with representatives of the Football Association FA and the Premier League to discuss the transfer of Argentina striker Carlos Tevez from West Ham to Manchester United. Following a meeting that lasted just over two-and-a-half hours, FIFA announced that...
- Research articles 2007-07-23
- Tevez and West Ham take dispute to FIFA
- SEOUL AFP — Carlos Tevez is to plead with FIFA to be allowed to join Manchester United after seeing his 30 million pound move tied up in red tape that could wreck his hopes of starting the season at Old Trafford. Tevez, who flew into Manchester to undergo a...
- Research articles 2007-07-18
- Hawk-Eye hopes to solve footballs goal-line debate
- LONDON AFP — Hawk-Eye, the technology used to judge tight line calls in tennis, will this weekend be proposed as the solution to football's desire for a reliable system of judging when the ball has crossed the goal-line. Football's rules-making body, the International Football Association Board IFAB, will also...
- Research articles 2007-03-02
- FIFA supremo Blatter eyes goal-line technology within a year
- DUBAI AFP — FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said he expects goal-line technology to be in use within a year but has ruled out video replays for disputed decisions while he is in charge. The technology would involve either balls with a microchip or a behind-the-goal camera linked to a...
- Research articles 2006-11-27
- Materazzi's clear conscience
- ROME AFP — Marco Materazzi, suspended for provoking Zinedine Zidane's headbutt in the World Cup final, has said he is a little bitter but has a clear conscience in his first comments's since FIFA's ban. Italian media and football officials reacted to the two-match ban with indigation saying that...
- Research articles 2006-07-23
- French official blames Blatter for 'catastrophic' refereeing
- BERLIN AFP — A leading French referee has slammed the "catastrophic" officiating at the World Cup and blamed FIFA President Sepp Blatter for putting politics before football in choosing referees. "They have selected the best teams from each continent, but not the best referees," said Bernard Saules, the president...
- Research articles 2006-06-27
- FIFA chief baffled by ref blunder
- BERLIN AFP — FIFA President Sepp Blatter has said it was incomprehensible that match officials did not intervene when blundering English referee Graham Poll gave Croatia's Josip Simunic three yellow cards. The performance of the highly rated Poll, who had been tipped to take charge of the World Cup...
- Research articles 2006-06-23
- Money 4 nothing, kicks for free?
- Jun 15, 2006 (Adbrief - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Despite high interest in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, its sponsors are not registering with most Australians. A study conducted by Global Market Insite GMI reveals that 61% of respondents were not able to identify the event's...
- Research articles 2006-06-15
- Del Horno to miss World Cup after Spain ask FIFA for replacement
- MADRID AFP — Spain have asked football's world governing body for permission to replace injured full-back Asier del Horno in their World Cup squad, FIFA confirmed. The Chelsea defender injured his calf muscle a week ago and will not be available for another 20 days, meaning he would not...
- Research articles 2006-05-31
- Divers could face trial by television
- LONDON AFP — Players who dive to win penalties or simulate injury in a bid to get opponents booked could soon face disciplinary action based on video reviews of their actions. England's Football Association FA, pressed into action by a string of flagrant examples of players attempting to con...
- Research articles 2006-03-30
- Electronically chipped ball for World Cup? Decision in March 2006
- BERLIN AFP — Football's world governing body FIFA will wait until March next year before deciding whether to use an electronically chipped ball at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany. FIFA media spokesman Markus Siegler confirmed there would be a meeting in March to discuss the tests of...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- FIFA searched in probe into collapse of former marketing partner
- GENEVA AFP — World football's governing body FIFA has said it has lodged a formal protest about a search of its headquarters earlier this month by Swiss investigators probing the collapse of former marketing partner ISMM-ISL four years ago. Spokesman Andreas Herren confirmed Sunday that FIFA president Sepp Blatter's...
- Research articles 2005-11-27
- Chelsea's Essien escapes ban
- LONDON AFP — Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien has escaped a ban for Saturday's violent tackle on Bolton defender Tal Ben Haim, the English Football Association announced. Essien was handed a yellow card after lunging wildly at the Israeli international in Chelsea's 5-1 win at stamford Bridge with referee Rob...
- Research articles 2005-10-18
- Best calls for Ireland united
- LONDON AFP — Northern Ireland great George Best has called for a unified national team. Northern Ireland, who have plummeted outside the top 100 in the FIFA world rankings, face England at Old Trafford in a World Cup qualifier this weekend. And the 58-year-old Best believes it would...
- Research articles 2005-03-23
- DFB urges FIFA to put refs under the tv spotlight
- FRANKFURT, Germany AFP — In the wake of the Robert Hoyzer refereeing scandal the German Football Federation DFB have made an official request for FIFA, football's governing body, to start using television coverage to analyse referees. A four-way DFB panel agreed to the proposal feeling technology must be used...
- Research articles 2005-02-13
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