UEFA ‘set to hold talks with the UK Government TOMORROW about moving Champions League final from red-list Istanbul to Wembley… with decision on venue for Chelsea vs Manchester City set to be made on Tuesday’ UEFA to hold talks with UK government about Champions League final location Discussions will take place on Monday about potentially … Read more
Manchester City and their opponents in the Champions League final will receive up to 4,000 tickets each for the match to be played in Turkey. UEFA and the Turkish authorities are believed to be drawing up plans to accommodate 25,000 spectators at the Ataturk Stadium for the match on May 29. If approved, the stadium in … Read more
Emma Hayes had insisted beforehand that this game must not be viewed as a big occasion. ‘No-one’s getting married,’ she pointed out, trying to maintain a sense of calm and perspective in an absorbing pre-match discussion of what it would take to deliver an English team to the women’s Champions League final for the first … Read more
Manchester City and Chelsea fans face anxious wait to see if they can travel to Istanbul for the Champions League final – if their sides make it – after Turkey enters a three-week lockdown UEFA confirmed that the Saturday May 29 final will take place in Istanbul, Turkey Europe’s governing body are working towards having … Read more
The ‘Dirty Dozen’ clubs will definitely face a sanction for trying to set up a breakaway European Super League, according to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, with even a ban from next’s season’s Champions League still possible. However, Ceferin believes that England’s Big Six — Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester United — should … Read more
‘Snakes? The insults were far worse than that!’ West Ham’s Karren Brady lifts lid on fiery meeting of Premier League’s furious 14 to fight European Super League plans as she says ‘trust has been vanquished’ with Big Six Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ attempted to join breakaway European Super League It led to the division’s other … Read more
Florentino Perez has warned that no club can leave the European Super League after signing binding contracts to participate and denied JP Morgan have pulled their backing to fund the competition. Speaking out yet again after a flurry of clubs withdrew, Perez – who heads the controversial competition – slammed teams for ‘manipulating our project’ … Read more
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has refused to back down in his defence of the disastrous European Super League and insists that anyone who thinks the project is dead is ‘completely wrong’. Perez, who is also the president of the Super League, has come out swinging just 24 hours after the controversial project collapsed, which … Read more
So we start with a blank sheet of paper, and on it we write: ‘[INSERT NAME] is a football club playing in the English football pyramid, and, as such, can only participate in competitions sanctioned by the English Football Association, UEFA and FIFA. ‘Any agreement or attempt to participate in a competition not recognised by … Read more
In the space of just 48 hours, the JP Morgan-backed European Super League went from being primed to end football as we know it to meeting its own end in a flurry of big-name clubs pulling out. ‘Betrayals’, ‘snakes’, ‘liars’ – this saga has torn the sport apart, killed relationships between executives who were close … Read more