The news came through with startling speed, another rumour that swelled to an almost bewildering succession of public statements in just a few short hours. At the end of yesterday, the battle-wearied supporters of Darlington FC could only step back, blinking, and survey the wreckage. Their club has been pushed into administration for the third time in less than ten years, and the prognosis for its future looks bleak.

The Football Association has now released full written reasons for Liverpool star Luis Suarez's ban for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.
In the reasons for the sanctions the independent regulatory commission claim Suarez gave "unreliable" and "inconsistent" evidence to the commission.

The Football Association has now released full written reasons for Liverpool star Luis Suarez's ban for racially abusing Manchester United's Patrice Evra.
In the reasons for the sanctions the independent regulatory commission claim Suarez gave "unreliable" and "inconsistent" evidence to the commission.

The lawyer of Luis Suarez believes the Liverpool striker will likely appeal against an eight-match ban handed down by the Football Association.
On Tuesday, Suarez was handed the ban and a £40,000 fine after being found guilty of racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.
The FA have since confirmed that the suspension could be extended if he launches a failed appeal, but Alejandro Balbi, who is also Suarez's agent, said the Uruguay international was "convinced" the decision could be reversed.

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 00:22:00 from: Goal

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 00:22:00 from: Goal

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 00:22:00 from: Goal

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 00:22:00 from: Goal

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

View the full story here: Goal

A news article on 2011-12-22 00:22:00 from: Goal

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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez set to launch 'total appeal' against eight-match ban for racism row, says agent and lawyer

Uruguay international will be able to play for the Reds until the process is concluded, with the 24-year-old confident of the sanctions being overturned

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Craig Bellamy and Joey Barton were involved in a X-rated tunnel bust-up at Anfield on Saturday.
The controversial pair had a heated exchange of words during the closing stages of Liverpool's slender 1-0 weekend win.
Queens Park Rangers boss Neil Warnock tried to brush the on-pitch feud under the carpet in the post-match press conference.

Liverpool's Luis Suárez will plead not guilty to FA racism charge

• Club offer full support to Uruguay striker • Faces long ban if found guilty of racially abusing Patrice Evra Luis Suárez faces a racism charge that threatens huge ramifications for the Liverpool striker and his club after the Football Association announced he had a case to answer over Patrice Evra's allegations he suffered sustained racist abuse during Manchester United's recent visit to Anfield.

By Chris Wright

Two Persepolis players, Mohammed Nosrati and Sheis Rezaei, have been banned from entering any and all Iranian stadiums after partaking in a post-goal 'bum grope' celebration during the Persian Gulf Cup match with Damash Gilan - a match that was broadcast live to a vast audience in the staunchly conservative Islamic county.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish has accused the Football Association of having a disruptive influence, due to its prolonged delay resolving Patrice Evra's racism claims.
A fortnight on from Luis Suárez's contentious bust-up with the Manchester United defender, the Liverpool striker, who was accused by Evra of sustained racial abuse, has still not been asked to provide his version of events.

Foul is suggesting that the Football Association of Malaysia could be facing sanctions following their recent orld Cup Qualifier against Singapore. One of the breach of regulations? Fans standing in the stairways!
Happens all the time in Indonesia. Fans clamber of fences, sit where they wanna sit, enter the press box.

Mohamed bin Hammam wants answers.

Bin Hammam, a recent challenger to president Sepp Blatter's throne who was given a lifetime ban from FIFA after being found guilty of bribery by the organization's ethics committee, has yet to receive documentation outlining the reasons for his expulsion.

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In the aftermath of Charlie Davies' dive that earned a penalty against Real Salt Lake earlier this season, Major League Soccer's discipline committee promised further punishment for future offenders.

Real Salt Lake forward Alvaro Saborio found that out first-hand on Friday, as the league suspended him one game and fined him $1,000 for his dive last weekend against the San Jose Earthquakes that deceived referee David Gantar, who called a penalty and gave a red card to Bobby Burling.

Barcelona's Gerard Pique has lashed out at his team mates over their attempts to unsettle Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas.

The furious 24-year-old Spain international told the Spanish newspaper Sport: "We must leave Cesc in peace and let things run their course."

His midfield colleague Xavi was the latest Barcelona player to go public about Fabregas earlier this week, earning a stinging rebuke from Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

Manchester City earn even more money (although a fee is not yet reported) through what is likely a lucrative stadium naming rights deal with their current shirt sponsor: Ethiad Airways. City have been flirting with the upcoming UEFA Financial Fair Play rules, reporting a $193M deficit in recent reports (a far cry from UEFA's debt allowance of $61.

Effects of the Financial Fair Play Regulations - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

On the 27th of May 2010, UEFA announced the approval of the Financial Fair Play(FFP) regulations. The aim of these regulations is to make the football clubs self sufficient. With the advent of these sanctions, every football club has to break even i.

Reports suggest Indonesia, despite being under threat of FIFA sanctions, have lined up some friendlies next month ahead of their World Cup Qualifier against Turkmenistan. The Timor Leste games were announced on the Timor Leste Football Association FB page and are part of a Timor Indonesia Rivalry Cup.

Today following many issues dealing with magicJack owner Dan Borislow, theWomen's Professional Soccer league has released an official statement regarding the recent sanctions imposed on the former Washington Freedom franchise, now called magicJack.
WPS OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 14, 2011) -Warning the owner of the magicJack women's soccer club that it will not tolerate his contractual failures and disparaging statements, Women's Professional Soccer took action to ensure the team can meet obligations.

By the end of this week, we will know what if any sanction has been levelled against Queens Park Rangers with regard to the Alejandro Faurlin affair. The club itself (and by this we mean the management and/or the owners) will get whatever it deserves, should it be found to be guilty. This, however, is not the place to discuss what sanctions may or may not be levelled against the club just yet.

MLS' disciplinary committee today announced that Aurelien Collin will not be suspended for this weekend's game against New York. Collin was given a red card for "striking an opponent" aka shoving Benny Feilhaber. The league announced that after reviewing the play it was a case of mistaken identity as Birahim Diop was the one that shoved Feilhaber.

Jason Kreis reacts to horrific injury

Kreis had not yet seen the replay (but had heard a lot about it) when he made this statement:

"I would like to see the players take some accountability within themselves," he said. "I know it's done over in England where the players union will have sanctions and look very, very harshly among themselves, because they've got to treat each other with the proper amount of respect and the proper amount of professionalism.

The Normalisation Committee set up by FIFA and mandated to smooth the transition of leadership at the PSSI is being accused of succumbing to the demands of a pro reform faction in breach of FIFA instructions.
To show what a cock up the whole thing is the pro reform have asked the NC to sign a letter overturning sanctions imposed by former PSSI chairman Nurdin Halid on players and coaches involved in the rebel Liga Primer Indonesia and three key members have refused to do so.

Uefa's new financial fair play rules will be ‘killed' if they are not applied equally across Europe, according to Liverpool's incoming managing director Ian Ayre.
Ayre, who also confirmed Liverpool are pursuing naming rights for any new stadium, is concerned there will not be a level playing field when the rules come into force in 2014.

Jean-Michel Aulas speaks to the press (often), sells his club (always), can speak without compromise (sometimes), and on occasions be perfectly candid (rarely). It just happened now in a Lyon Capitale interview published today, and, as it addresses the concerns of many readers of this blog, I thought I should share the key points with you.

The government in Indonesia is none too keen on having local governments subsidise football teams and with good reason. Why should the taxpayer fork out for a football team when schools are in poor conditions and roads are damaged and health care is inadequate?
Given the worldwide clampdown on tobacco sponsorship it's only a matter of time before they will be banned from getting involved in Indonesia.

Apologies for the title taken from a Robbie Williams song. I would have preferred another song, more earthier, more direct but there you go.
Questions are being raised about the authenticity of a fax allegedly sent from FIFA to the Indonesian FA, PSSI, calling on the Indonesian body to impose sanctions on the breakaway Liga Primer Indonesia.

After FIFA threatened sanctions against Indonesia's breakaway league, the Liga Primer Indonesia, the new league have welcomed the opportunity to sit down with the world's governing body and explain their situation.
OK, let's put aside claims they had already done this and gotten approval (I think what was said at the time was that FIFA won't get involved if the FA are on board), appealing to FIFA's morals and ethics is rather like asking a King Cobra who hasn't eaten for six months to take care of the barbeque you're preparing while you nip into the bottle shop for a few more six packs.

With the Indonesian FA now in Doha for the Asian Cup along with all the other footballing bigwigs expect plenty of wagon circling as they seek to repel the intruder, the upstart Liga Primer Indonesia.
Reuters no less has picked up on a football story out of Indonesia and quotes a FIFA official as saying they 'have heard nothing official' about the LPI and warn that if it goes ahead tomorrow as planned 'it will be dealt with by FIFA's emergency committee and sanctions will be taken'.

Finally the big days arrives. Tomorrow sees the breakaway Liga Priner Indonesia kick off with Ksatria Solo playing Persema at the Manahan Stadium in Solo.
What should we expect? Persema will be fielding the team that served them in the official Indonesia Super League till they withdrew while Ksatria Solo will be made up of various folk nobody has heard of along with an Aussie keeper.