In 1995 the European Court of Justice ruled in the Bosman case that the player transfer system and restrictions on the maximum number of foreign players on teams were illegal violations of the Treaty of Rome.

Sport has a deep psychological dimension of identity building. When people are playing, they form social patterns expressing who "we" are.

Two football fans are dead, two families lives devastated, but only a week later, football has already moved on.

In the study of functions and survival conditions for traditional sports and games in different European regions five factors play an important part.

One of FIFA's leading officials is implicated in the latest ticketing scandal to hit the World Cup Finals.

The stage-managed meeting next month at which Sepp Blatter intends to hold on to his position as the head of world football is today exposed as the sham it threatens to be.

The situation in East Africa shows that FIFA grants have a hand in wrangling between federations and Governments. It has become a curse of soccer development in the region.

The Norwegian professor, Hans B. Skaset, identifies 11 trends in the development of sport and predicts that in the future sport will be privatised, disengaged from its values and anti-doping has been made obsolete by gene technology.