ECA’s plans for an additional European competition is “threatening domestic football”, says European Leagues’ secretary Georg Pagnl at World Football Summit and also lashed out at UEFA prize money for cementing a competitive imbalance.

The chairman of the European Club Association has launched a broadside at the game’s organisers as the association looks for a radical overhaul of the international calendar.

Both La Liga and Premier League are looking to expand to overseas markets, but expansion could ensue changing dynamics and perhaps end up weakening the domestic leagues.

Last season Real Madrid and FC Barcelona earned more from television than the teams with the third, fourth and fifth largest shares combined in Spain's La Liga. This picture could change if Spain adopts a collective television rights deal.

French football team Paris Saint-Germain has recently signed a record sponsorship deal with Qatari National Bank. This deal is only a part in a long-term strategy designed by Qatar to forge national identity with sports as a key-pillar, says journalist and blogger James M. Dorsey in this article that takes a look into the Qatar-France relationship.

It is time to rank the most important sports political cases of 2011 and to offer a list of prophecies – what will be the most important cases in 2012?

Comment: In the beginning of February the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) made strong statements that, if she is right, will revolutionize the future of media rights in sport, and may diminish revenues of football clubs in Europe.

On April 27, 2010 The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi over corruption allegations.