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Seville and St Petersburg replace Bilbao and Dublin as Euro 2020...

Seville has been confirmed as the replacement city for Bilbao for the 2020 European Championships, whilst St Petersburg will take over Dublin’s hosting duties...

Tony Cairoli: Red Bull docu-series is ‘crucial’ to expansion of motocross

With the popularity of Formula One’s ‘Drive to Survive’, in its wake, the Red Bull racing team announced the launch of its own documentary...

Matchroom Boxing agrees ‘record-breaking’ DAZN switch

Matchroom Boxing has agreed a ‘record-breaking’ deal with digital sports streaming service DAZN to replace Sky Sports as the promotion company’s exclusive UK broadcast...

ESL collapse begins as Premier League ‘big six’ withdraw from breakaway...

The ‘big six’ Premier League teams have pulled out of the newly formed European Super League (ESL) after reversing their decisions on the hugely...

Barry Hearn entrusts Matchroom chairmanship to son Eddie upon retirement

Barry Hearn is set to step down as Chairman of Matchroom Sport, almost four decades after founding the company, he announced this morning at...

Fitzboydon: European Super League could open up a ‘football civil war’

The formation of the new European Super League (ESL) could provoke a ‘football civil war’, with UEFA no longer holding a ‘monopoly’ on the...

How will the European Super League affect sponsors and rights-holders?

Alliances between top European clubs and sponsoring brands could be ‘seen as even more of a premium’ following the formation of the European Super...

UEFA President brands ESL ‘a spit in the face’ as UK...

UEFA President, Aleksander Ceferin, has blasted the newly formed European Super League (ESL) as a ‘spit in the face of all football lovers and...

Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich back away from Super League proposals

Bundesliga duo Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich have ruled out entering the new European Super League, instead favouring the proposed reforms to the format...

Manchester United quits ECA as Ed Woodward resigns from UEFA

Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have all stepped away from the European Club Association (ECA) as United’s Executive Vice-Chairman, Ed Woodward, has quit...