Your questions ‘answered’ by Football’s governing bodies
Does the Scottish Football Association consider itself bound by Friday’s vote? You’d think this would be a yes or no – but nothing in the Rangers case is simple.
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Women have expressed outrage as female athletes from Japan’s football team and Australia’s basketball team fly economy to the Olympics while their male counterparts travelled business class.
Does the Scottish Football Association consider itself bound by Friday’s vote? You’d think this would be a yes or no – but nothing in the Rangers case is simple.
Will there not? Will there be a meeting even? Nothing is certain. My sources inside the Scottish Football League reckon that the voting for Division 3 is pretty much around the 50-50 mark right now. But any amount of events across coming days can alter that and probably will.
My sources are senior and widely respected figures in Scottish League Football and rarely have I heard men so angry about an invitation to a meeting, writes Alex Thomson.
The use of goal-line technology in football is approved in an historic decision by the International FA Board (IFAB).
England face Norway in Oslo this evening in Roy Hodgson’s first game as manager of the national side. Will his pragmatic approach ensure victory over the long-ball specialists?
Controversial Fifa President Sepp Blatter casts doubt on the future of penalty shoot-outs to decide football matches, but what are the alternatives?
This is the time for leadership, from Scottish football’s governing bodies, from the chairmen of the SPL clubs – but above all from Rangers Football Club. As yet, I see little sign of leadership emerging, of men who see values, not just figures.
Roy Hodgson urges fans and players to get behind him as the FA confirms his appointment as England manager.
“There is a heightened sense at the SFA’s Hampden Park HQ that Scotland’s politicians have rolled their tanks onto the SFA’s lawn. The SFA want them off.” – Alex Thomson writes on the question of political interference in Scottish football.
Argentina’s win against Peru in the 1978 World Cup has always been mired in controversy. Now players tell Channel 4 News they were subject to political interference at the highest level.