Blatter and Platini charged with fraud, as English media again miss the point

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have finally been charged with fraud by Swiss prosecutors over a payment of about £1.35m to Platini, and both now will go on trial. The media in Britain is reporting this a little, but interestingly they have omitted one very salient point from the case in their reports, owing to …

Newcastle in for Unai Emery, media going round in circles.

By Tony Attwood Inevitably Unai Emery has said that he “doesn’t know anything about rumoured interest from Newcastle” and that’s probably true, because the whole thing about Mr Emery heading to Newcastle is quite likely to be a load of old cobblers. But it remains a fact that Mr Emery has a poor reputation among …

Finally Fifa really is starting to make inroads into the great player loan scandal.

By Tony Attwood We first picked up on Fifa’s plans for handling loans in a different way back in 2018 with the article Fifa are considering banning loans as they target Chelsea and Juventus.  But we’d been pondering the issue for years before that.  And now, tucked away, out of sight of any readers in …