What a pleasure to be discussing sports regulation today with the academics and students @mmulawresearch.bsky.social !

Auch aus der Sicht sehr lesenswert: die Forderung nach einem europaweiten Eingreifen durch einen European Sports Act, den @janzglinski.bsky.social, @janexner.bsky.social und Stephen Weatherill hier formuliert haben. www.faz.net/aktuell/spor...

"Too often have federations abused the principle of autonomy as a cover for poor governance. The European Union must establish a regulatory framework for professional sports." We need a European Sports Act.

How to fix football / FIFA? "...the most promising avenue is EU legislation which sets out minimum governance standards as well as substantive requirements, including on human rights, gender equality, and athlete welfare." - @janzglinski.bsky.social Great thread by @ncgeehan.bsky.social⤵️

5/ Dr Jan Zglinski, @janzglinski.bsky.social Associate Professor at LSE Law School. Author of, among other things, 'For the good of the game: fixing football through improved regulation'. www.lse.ac.uk/research/research-for-the-world/society/fixing-football-through-improved-regulation

Fans of Bayern Munich reference our @fairsq.bsky.social statement on the misgovernance of football at the FIFA Club World Cup: "10 Years Baur au Lac - World Football is More Poorly Governed than Before" Time for change.

Today's LSE Festival highlight: Know the story of 1971 Women's World Cup in Mexico? Women's football, watched by record crowds, but written out of history because it was "not commercially viable" What's the future for women in sport? FREE film screening +Q&A with director+ @janzglinski.bsky.social

Great to see @theguardian.com covering our open letter in which we call for a reform of football governance. It has been 10 years since we were promised a fundamental overhaul of how the game is run. Too little has changed - and not much for the better. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

📢 New Article Reforming Football: What the EU Can Do www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#ECJ #AG Emiliou: #Sports governing bodies cannot freely self-regulate when their rules have a significant impact on areas covered by #EUlaw #football 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

When near Naples... "Served by Maradona"

A new proposal for a European Sports Act, by @janzglinski.bsky.social and others, deserves strong support. The evidence in favour of imposing regulation on dysfunctional sport bodies like FIFA is overwhelming. This is what that could look like in practice. fairsq.org/new-proposal...

While the US already has the Ted Stevens Act and the SafeSport Act and might take up something on college sports, a broadbased approach to sports governance like this could be useful too. The challenge is that so much of US pro sports is governed by collective bargaining

Our proposal for a European Sports Act! Sport needs reforming and the EU, so we believe, can effect positive change. We propose EU rules on good governance, social responsibility, human rights, plus better safeguards for athletes and fans. A short thread breaking down the key elements.

we wrote this with doctoral students in law in Europe in mind. My impression is many of them are methodologically lost. We hope that the expert coding lens and framework can help at least some of them out

Are we all coders now? @movadek.bsky.social, Phillip Schroeder and @janzglinski.bsky.social on a way out of expertise anxiety induced by the rise of empirical legal studies. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How much authority does CAS deserve, how much does it need? Intriguing proposal by @antoineduval.bsky.social to apply the old German 'Solange' doctrine to sports arbitration. 👇

#Sportslaw breaking! AG Capeta from the #CJEU concludes in her Opinion under the #Seraing case that #CAS awards ought to be subjected to full review (all of EU law, not limited to EU public policy) by national courts to ensure effectiveness of #EULaw. #Arbitration

It's taken a long time, and NASL hasn't played a season since 2017, but the league's antitrust case against U.S. Soccer and MLS finally heads to trial this week. The key question: does U.S. Soccer have too much control over the market for pro soccer? I tackle that in a @sportico.bsky.social article:

More sports antitrust - this time from the US. Have the national federation (US Soccer) and existing top league (MLS) kept a competitor (NASL) out?

The inevitable has happened: a year after the European Court of Justice’s ruling, A22 has finally submitted a re-re-worked proposal for the European Super League. If (big if!) enough clubs sign up, there is legal trouble ahead for UEFA.

The (shadow) football regulator is hiring 👇

Norwegian Football Federation will abstain from 2030 and 2034 World Cup vote (or vote against if by acclamation). Lise Klaveness criticises the bidding process as violating principles of good governance and, crucially, FIFA’s own human rights policies.

BREAKING NEWS Tories plotting to wreck Football Governance Bill Time for those that care to step forward Say yes to: ✅️ Fair financial flow ✅️ Good governance ✅️ No more vested interest @fairgameuk.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Quite the FIFA document dump last night: 🏆'Best bid ever' - FIFA's evaluation of Saudi 2034 World Cup, whitewashing human rights ✈️'Low environmental risk' of 6 country/3 continent 2030 WC 👷Independent report concludes FIFA *does* have responsibility to compensate workers in Qatar (PS. FIFA ignores)

FIFA has dumped its World Cup bid evaluation report for Saudi Arabia after midnight on Friday. Wonder why? Saudi, according to FIFA’s evaluation, is a great candidate to host World Cup. Human rights issues, it suggests, will be improved by giving Saudi World Cup digitalhub.fifa.com/m/51d8a13714...

They've been promoted.

Which is my way of saying: hello Bluesky folks!

Werder Bremen have become second (professional) club in Germany to leave X for Bluesky. Decision taken by executive board. Statement does not mince words.