With Transfer Deadline Day almost upon us, football fans will be checking news feeds and, of course, Sky Sports News, for nuggets of information about star players their club are buying or trying to keep.
Read MoreToday’s announcement that former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini have been banned from football underlines the importance for good conduct and transparency.
Read MoreBeing a football manager can be a thankless task but after joining Liverpool, there are plenty of lessons that spokesmen can learn from Jurgen Klopp's inaugural press conference masterclass.
Read MoreDaily Mirror Chief Football Writer John Cross has been one of the UK’s leading sports journalists for more than 15 years and has seen many changes in the way journalists and sports organisations interact.
Read MoreStar performers can sometimes earn a reputation for wild behaviour, particularly in the world of sport – whether it be players on nights out or FIFA officials being accused of corruption.
Read MoreFootballers are easily exposed for bad behaviour because of the advent of smartphones and social media with newspapers and websites often reporting of players getting in trouble like Jack Grealish.
Read MoreThis was always going to be a momentous week for Fifa, which see incumbent President Sepp Blatter take on Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, who has the support of Uefa, the European football governing body.
Read MoreRaheem Sterling is a fine footballer for Liverpool and England, an exciting forward whose style has caught the eye and despite only being 20, he's already made almost 100 appearances for the club.
Read MoreAsk any business whether Corporate Social Responsibility matters to them and they will almost certainly say 'yes' but few have made the sort of commitment Mercedes-Benz has done in its partnership with Laureus.
Read MoreThe rise and rise of AFC Bournemouth over the past few years has been fascinating – yet in recent years, twice the club has faced going out of existence, relying on the community to survive.
Read MoreFootball has been in the news for all the wrong reasons this week with legendary Italian coach Arrigo Saachi lamenting the number of black players in football and Chelsea fans goading a black fan.
Read MoreIn the 1970s and 1980s, the culture in football was very different to that we take for granted today but with the latest broadcast deal, clubs and administrators have a huge opportunity to make a real difference.
Read MoreFIFA needs to change as its reputation has taken a serious hit following controversy surrounding the voting for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, according to a survey undertaken by Calacus.
Read MoreMonday’s Metro newspaper was bursting with technicolor advertisements supporting Rainbow Laces, the annual campaign encouraging footballers to don multi-coloured laces to support LGBT rights.
Read MoreGermany are always a huge draw for media during the FIFA World Cup and 2014 was no different so the task was rather to channel and structure huge public interest in the team looking to secure another world title…
Read MoreIf you looked at the news from Brazil after Germany won the World Cup final, everything looked rosy at FIFA but when I was in Rio I warned that we might be reaching a tipping point in sport’s relationship with sponsors.
Read MoreFour months and nine international games – that's the ban Luis Suarez is facing for biting Giorgio Chiellini during the FIFA World Cup earlier this week which prompted a global media storm.
Read MoreIf you believe the UK newspapers, you may well get the impression that the FIFA World Cup is going to be a disaster, what with stadia delays, civil unrest, infrastructure issues and a rise in crime.
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