Mario Čižmek knows his English is not very good. Regardless, he struggles through a conference presentation in English about something he is deeply ashamed about, and he does it in front of a big international audience.

The number of new clubs entering into the Champions League in 2013/14 has dwindled compared to last year, according to the annual Champions League diversity index calculated by Steve Menary for Play the Game.

In 2009 UEFA introduced financial fair play (FFP), a concept they designed to curb the influence and excesses of billionaire owners and reckless spending by clubs across Europe. UEFA’s ultimate goal is to force teams to break even over rolling three year periods, and their now CAS confirmed decision to ban Malaga from European competition next season is the first battle of the FFP era – but most certainly not the last.

After what is surely the longest wait of any country that has actually applied to join one of FIFA’s six confederations, the Gibraltar Football Association were today - 14 years after first applying – accepted into UEFA.

In this comment piece, professor David Rowe takes a look at the changes to sport, celebrity and masculinity that have occurred over the last decades through a characterization of two key figures in football.

Comment: Lasana Liburd who over the years has had his clashes with former bigwig in international football, Jack Warner, writes a personal account on the Trinidad-Tobago country fellow. Warner was forced to quit politics in the wake of a highly critical report on his presidential management of CONCACAF, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football.

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.