in the summer Aleksander Ceferin was highly critical of Italian football stadiums being old and outdated, and the promised work to modernise them by 2032 was being delayed or cancelled: "I think Italian football infrastructure is a shame. You are one of the biggest footballing countries, you ha...
4 host nations currently exploring the idea of hosting:
USA/New Zealand/Fiji (joint) China Turkey United Kingdom
3 of these would obv mean breaking FIFA's rotation rules on hosting, but I think they have backed themselves into a corner with their silly shenanigans on 2034
Investigation by the Turkish FA finds that 371 of the countries 571 football refs and linesmen have betting accounts, with 152 of those accounts being active. Included in this are 7 refs and 15 linesmen that are currently officiating in the top 2 divisions, with one of them having placed over 18,00...
Winston Biscuit They also held a vote on bringing in anchoring salary cap (clubs could only spend 5 x what the 20th placed club brings in) but only 7 clubs voted in favour so its not happening
5 of the 7 teams to vote in favour of a wage cap were:
Premier League clubs have voted to replace PSR with SCR & SSR from next season https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4467022/new-premier-league-financial-system-explained https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13473576/premier-league-clubs-approve-new-squad-cost-ratio-rules-to-replace-psr...
A Polish football journalist has released a biography on Robert Lewandowski and in it he claims that with 2 games left of the 22/23 season Barcelona asked the player to stop scoring goals as any more would trigger a bonus payment to Bayern and they couldn't afford it
Leicester's PSR breach case being argued over next week. Talksports PSR expert man says Leicester will lose and he predicts a points deduction of around 6 points
3 week court case started this week where Mbappe is suing PSG for €263M in unpaid bonuses + 'ill treatment', while PSG are counter suing him for €300M as they claim he renaged on an agreement to transfer to the Saudi league for that amount
PSG's Achraf Hakimi wins African Player of the Year for 2025 https://cdn.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/hakimi.jpeg (I was on holiday in Morocco in 2022 and bought myself a national team shirt and made sure I got one with Hakimi on the back. The lads working in the restaurant absolutely ...
Indeed. Can't think of another non-tournament international match watched as a neutral that I've enjoyed as much as last night. What a way to qualify. was more excited watching Scotland last night than I have been watching England for a long time I can absolutely assure you, watching Scotland isn't...
Yes maybe there are more long throws right now, but there have also always been some long throws in the game, and so we dont need every long throw accompanied by a commentator telling us 'long throws are back' I was tempted to start an (Un-)Athletico FC thread. Were you put together the most unathl...