FIFA plans to create more committees than in the Blatter era when patronage was rife. They were severely cut in 2015 clean-up reforms that Gianni Infantino helped draft. Other legal plans include confirming 2030-2034 World Cup hosts on the same day.
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Barcelona, which has revenues of close 900m euros, recieves $25,000 fine for racist behaviour by fans at PSG game. (Also a suspended one match ban for away supporters)

The Fantasy Football lobby has got its way: 'Other changes will see the fourth and fifth rounds, and the quarter-finals, played without clashing with any Premier League fixtures for the first time.'

The details in this are wild. And just a week after the other chap was blackmailed to give up his contacts book. Utter mayhem. Great reporting.

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It has been 6 years now that Saudi Arabia has imposed an arbitrary travel ban on my family. I wrote about it in the piece below 👇🏽

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Pinto da Costa has been president of Porto for almost my entire life. This is a member owned club that elects presidents. Huge amount of power one person has been able to wield on an important institution.

Very nice read from Kaye Wiggins and William Louch on CVC's tortuous journey to launching its IPO

ft.com/content/73f0f3…

“We will be attacked,” the official responsible for fending off cyberthreats at the Summer Olympics said. He can even predict when the attacks are most likely to come. tariq panja on preparations in Paris. nyti.ms/3W1VrJk

The Paris Olympics is under attack, probably right this second and every other one that follows until the end of the Games.

Piece on cyberthreats, 'the weapons of mass disruption', facing the 2024 Olympics, likely the most attacked event in history.

nytimes.com/2024/04/16/wor…

it should go without saying that house of saud dot com is not, in fact, 'the official website' of saudi arabia or its royal family, and yet, here we are...
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Huge result for Unai Emery. He was mocked and derided by the time he left the Emirates. He’s been a revelation at Villa and that win over Arsenal will mean a huge amount to him. He talked about the hurt over his first experience. Good for him!