Haven’t done anything for a while here but was watching the highlights of a hurling match a few weeks ago when a fairly sickening challenge occurred which led to a player being concussed.

That tackle prompted this blog.

It is undisputed that, as a general principle, training compensation must be paid to a player’s training club when a player signs his first professional contract with another club and on each further transfer until the end of the football season of his 23rd birthday (Article 20 of the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players 2010 (Regulations)).

The recent well publicised contract negotiations between Munster and South African national BJ Botha regarding an extension to his contract with the province have again focused the spotlight on the Irish Rugby Football Union’s (‘IRFU’) controversial Player Succession Strategy and its potential infringement of both EU and domestic Irish law. This article examines the new strategy from the perspective of Article 45 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (hereinafter “TFEU”)¹ and its likely infringement of the provisions pertaining to it.

The Supreme Administration Court of the Czech Republic has ruled in its recent judgment that a professional football player may perform his duties to the club under a business contract (i.e., as an entrepreneur) rather than an employment contract. 

It seemed only a matter of time before the Premier League (PL) jumped aboard the financial regulation ship. In Daniel Geey latest blog he considers the implications of the PL's vote in favour of draft proposals covering profitability and sustainability and short term cost control measures.

Football DataCo has been involved in many sporting intellectual property law disputes in recent years. In this article LawInSport's Kevin Carpenter analyses the latest in a string of cases affecting data provided by companies for sports betting purposes which has implications for both the UK and Europe.  

LawInSport Insight - Sean Cottrell asks John Wolohan and Kevin Carpenter about their views on sports betting in New Jersey and more broadly about the gambling market and laws in the US. Watch to find out how they think this impacts on professional and college sport in the US.

Sean Cottrell is the founder and Managing Director of LawInSport.

John Wolohan is a Professor and the Director of the Sport Venue and Event Management Graduate program in the David B. Falk Center for Sport Management at Syracuse University.

Kevin Carpenter is the Editor of LawInSport.com.

Watch this recorded lecture of Daniel Geey, one of the LawInSport Editorial Board members, talking about sports broadcasting at the University of Westminster at the beginning of March 2013.

Benoît Keane talks to Sean Cottrell, founder of LawInSport, about European sports rights and the recent conference on the sustainable financing of sport organised by the Irish Presidency of the European Union in Dublin.

Having detailed some of the match-fixing scandals to have been prominent in 2012, and the approach taken at the London Olympic Games in part 1, we go on to examine action being taken across the globe.

Analysis of the effect of UEFA's Financial Fair Play Regulations (FFP) on the three most common methods used by football clubs to raise finance.  

Andy Parkinson, CEO of UK Anti-Doping talks to LawInSport about his career and his work during London 2012.

Find out how he moved from the Paralympic movement to UK Anti-Doping and then onto running what is recognised as the most successful Olympic and Paralympic anti-doping programme.

It is beyond question that sports law is at its most advanced in Europe and America. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for sports law in Asia, which lags way behind Europe and America at both the working and research levels. Thus, when we take into account the prominence of Asia on the world stage from the perspectives of economics and population, this undoubtedly illustrates the pressing need to improve and develop sports law throughout the region.

Diving is a common occurrence in football. It seems inevitable that at least once every game a player will swan-dive into the ground, clutch his leg in anguish, and then roll around frantically, all while screaming in blood-curdling agony. As he continues to flail and flounder about the field, replays show that the opposing player made absolutely no contact with the 'fouled' player, whom spectators now view as worthy of an Oscar for his 'performance'.

When football and broadcasting come up in conversation, BSkyB's (Sky) live coverage of the Premier League (PL) since 1992 is never far from many people's lips. It was Sky's strategic driver that, along with first run movies was the subscriber driver. It also had the very large consequence of bringing large amounts of Pay-TV revenue into the hands of PL chairmen. The mutually beneficial relationship, after twenty years, continues apace. The aim of this article is to trace the broadcasting victories in the football sphere that threatened to derail Sky's grip on PL football.