UEFA expressed concerns that club losses could rise by 50 per cent in 2010 when their regulation to stop clubs’ overspending, Financial Fair Play, was discussed at the SoccerEx Forum in Manchester.

The Games is an experience that football players should not miss, says two-time US Olympian Friedel and urges the players to play regardless of any opposition from their governing bodies.

Egyptian football fans, emboldened by their role in protests that deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years in office, are seeking to alter the politics of their country’s beautiful game.

Football matches are but one battle fought on the pitches of North Africa. The other is the struggle for the region’s future.

The recent events in Indonesia due to the forthcoming chairman election in the Indonesian Football Association (PSSI), have spawned a massive uprising in the public and have also given rise to a reaction from the world's governing body on football; FIFA.

Under the control of FIFA ex-co member Jack Warner, Trinidad and Tobagonian football players are owed money dating back to July 2010 while 12 technical staff members have not seen a proper pay check since September 2009. Journalist Lasana Liburd gives a personal report and lets us peek into Warner’s world.

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.

Comment: "The current events in Egypt make me think of what happened in Romania in November and December 1989. Time will show if Hosni Mubarak will suffer the same fate as Nicolae Ceausescu – violently removed as head of state and killed? The similarities are there, but there is one important difference," writes Andreas Selliaas in this comment piece.