Новости за 04.09.2015

By Tom Parsons
September 4 – Ronaldo or Messi, one of the big questions of our time, is being voted on in London by commuters using their cigarette butts.

By Mark Baber
September 4 - Chelsea has unveiled Wipro, the Bangalore, India-based multi-national global information technology company, as the club's new official digital and IT partner. Last week Manchester United announced a similar digital partnership with another Indian technology company, HCL Technologies.

September 4 - Hundreds of paramilitary and riot police were deployed in and around the stadium in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen on Thursday as China and Hong Kong squared off for a politically sensitive World Cup qualifier.

By Andrew Warshaw
September 4 - Anyone who thought the eagerly anticipated first meeting of FIFA's much-trumpeted Reform body would result in ground-breaking advances will be disappointed but its leader insists "important steps" have been taken in the way world football's governing body is run.

By Andrew Warshaw
September 4 - The Asian Football Confederation has been quick to respond to accusations by FIFA presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon that it is guilty of "electoral fraud" in the race to succeed Sepp Blatter.

September 4 - The last week has seen another boost in Twitter followers to Premier League clubs with a growth of 210,392 across all clubs compared to 196,493 the week before.

By Samindra Kunti
September 4 - The Brazilian Football Confederation CBF want to open up new markets and have targeted Russia, Iran, Nigeria and Morocco, notwithstanding an institutional crisis at home.

By Paul Nicholson at the FITS Forum in Geneva
September 4 – There is an urgent need for regulation to make football clubs identify who their owners are, including beneficial owners - the real owners hiding behind shell companies or nominees, said Nicola Bonucci, director legal of the OECD.

By Paul Nicholson in Geneva
September 4 – Has sport, and football in particular, lost its self-proclaimed special status right of self-governance, free from government influence and prevailing national laws? Three political grandees speaking at the FITS Forum in Geneva were of the consensus that autonomy for sport was a principal that needs to respected. But within their accepted perameters.

By Tom Parsons
September 3 - Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich are to set up a camp for refugees coming into Germany and will donate €1 million towards refugee projects in the country.

"The money coming into the game [football] is incredible. But it is just the prune-juice effect — it comes in and goes out straight away. Agents run the game." Lord Sugar

Lord Sugar (then just plain Alan) became chairman of Tottenham Hotspur in 1991 and stayed at the helm there for 10 years. He was even manufacturer of the set-top decoder boxes that took content from dominant UK pay-TV channel, Sky, into British homes. He is truly a founding father of the modern English game.