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The president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, said on Monday that all payments made by the soccer club to a company owned by a senior refereeing official were for advisory matters and not…

File picture of UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin. He said that Barcelona’s refereeing scandal is one of the most serious incidents he has seen in football | Photo Credit: AP UEFA president…

File photo of FC Barcelona club President Joan Laporta. The Spanish government on March 13, 2023, sided against the Barcelona soccer club after state prosecutors accused the club of…

Former Barcelona President Josep Maria Bartomeu is seen next to a FC Barcelona’s logo. Prosecutors are suing him over alleged payments to a company owned by a senior refereeing official to…

By Associated Press GENEVA: FIFA wants full stoppage time added even in blowouts though its refereeing chief said Thursday a “mercy rule” that baseball uses at some…

Amid the dismay after their group stage elimination, Germany, their fans and World Cup followers in general would have felt the ghosts of past World Cups had revisited the four-time…

Howard Webb is leaving his job as head of refereeing in Major League Soccer to take up a similar role in the English Premier League with the aim of improving the general standard of…

Opinion - For all its faults, you can't accuse Super Rugby Pacific of not throwing up some highly watchable footy this weekend. The Blues beat the Chiefs 25-0 in Hamilton last…

Joe Ravitch was holidaying in St Barts about a decade ago when he first met the Russian oligarch who would later hand him the most politically fraught sports deal in history.That…

By PTI PANAJI: FC Goa have lodged a formal complaint with the All India Football Federation (AIFF) regarding the standard of refereeing in the ongoing Indian Super…