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Why ISL clubs running the league isn’t a conflict of interest?

Why ISL clubs running the league isn’t a conflict of interest?

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The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Tuesday announced that it had reached an agreement with Indian Super League (ISL) clubs to jointly conduct the league for the upcoming season, with the clubs set to take over its commercial operations under a new governance model. Under the agreement, the clubs will own the league’s commercial rights for the next four years, although they will have the option to review the arrangement after two years. AIFF will receive 10 per cent of the league’s net profits, retain audit rights over the league’s accounts and receive ₹1.1 crore from each participating club. The announcement has also raised a question among many Indian football fans: If the clubs themselves are running the league, doesn’t that create a conflict of interest? The short answer is no. In fact, several of the world’s biggest football leagues are run on similar lines. What did AIFF announce? The AIFF confirmed that it has accepted a club-led model for the ISL’s commercial operations. While the clubs will collectively conduct the league and own …

‘Recharged’ Jurgen Klopp confirms talks to become next Germany head coach

‘Recharged’ Jurgen Klopp confirms talks to become next Germany head coach

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2 min readJul 4, 2026 06:22 PM IST Jurgen Klopp has confirmed that the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB), Germany’s football federation, has been in touch with him to take over as the national team’s new head coach after their Round of 32 exit from the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Julian Nagelsmann who had been leading the team since 2023, stepped down as head coach after their shock loss to Paraguay on penalties. “Julian has stepped down and the (federation) is working on the succession and has approached me in the course of those considerations,” said Klopp, speaking from New York on German broadcaster Magenta TV in his role as a World Cup commentator late Friday. Klopp hasn’t been seen in management since announcing his departure from Liverpool in 2024. He was named Red Bull’s Head of  Global Soccer in January 2025. In reference to his absence from coaching, he said, “About two years ago I stopped at Liverpool and said that I lacked the energy for another job or for another year with Liverpool. Since then …

A bit of Pep Guardiola in every English football game, from Premiership to Sunday leagues

A bit of Pep Guardiola in every English football game, from Premiership to Sunday leagues

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Ten years is too short to be called an era, but Pep Guardiola’s decade with English football is an era unto its own. Ten years of stacking trophies, of varied sizes, shapes and values; ten years of building an identity and heritage for a club that had languished in the shadows of the more historic institution in the neighbourhood, and ten years of refashioning the ideals and values, methods and style of the English game. He would be immortalised as the greatest Manchester City manager, as one of the greatest of the league, but his biggest legacy is that he changed the footballing mentality of a stubborn nation that claims to have discovered the game. He found the league in English and left it Guardiola-esque. Precisely for this reason, his time in England can’t be fully quantified. To call him a supreme tactician would be to limit his aura to the numerous innovations and inventions he produced with various iterations of City; to belittle the supreme man-manager he was, in how he coaxed his men …

Arsenal’s Premier League curse ends: Mikel Arteta’s rebuild ends 22 years of heartbreak

Arsenal’s Premier League curse ends: Mikel Arteta’s rebuild ends 22 years of heartbreak

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Arsenal ended a 22-year Premier League wait on Tuesday after Manchester City’s 1-1 draw at Bournemouth confirmed Mikel Arteta’s side as champions with one match still to play. Arsenal supporters gather to celebrate after Arsenal won the Premier League title after 22 years. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali) City needed to win to take the title race into the final weekend after Arsenal’s 1-0 victory over Burnley had moved them to the brink. Bournemouth struck first through Eli Junior Kroupi, and although Erling Haaland equalised in stoppage time, City could not force the winner that would have kept the race alive. The draw left Arsenal four points clear, making the final league match against Crystal Palace a trophy-lift occasion rather than a title decider. How Arsenal finally turned control into a title The title is Arsenal’s first since the 2003-04 Invincibles season and their 14th English top-flight crown. It also ends a long sequence of frustration under Arteta, whose side had finished second in each of the previous three Premier League seasons before finally crossing the line …

‘Selfish’ Mo Salah must be dropped from Liverpool farewell game: Wayne Rooney

‘Selfish’ Mo Salah must be dropped from Liverpool farewell game: Wayne Rooney

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4 min readMay 18, 2026 01:13 PM IST Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney slammed Egyptian striker Mohamed Salah for his “selfish” comments on Liverpool’s style of play in the 2025-26 Premier League season ahead of his proposed farewell match for the Reds on Sunday. Salah, who had announced his departure from the club after nine years in May, took to social media earlier this week and urged Liverpool for a return to high-octane football. “I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that. Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. “I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and …

Declan Rice after club enters Champions League final

Declan Rice after club enters Champions League final

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3 min readUpdated: May 6, 2026 08:38 AM IST Arsenal may still be one game away from winning their first ever Champions League trophy but the players and the fans celebrated their second leg semi-final victory over Atletico Madrid at the Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night with full gusto. Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice has defended the vociferous celebrations. The club is in the Champions League final for the first time in 20 years. The London club overcame a spirited second-leg challenge from Atletico Madrid at the Emirates Stadium. With both teams locked at 1-1 after the first leg in Spain, it took a first half goal from Bukayo Saka to help Mikel Arteta’s men secure a spot in the final. This is only the second time in their history that Arsenal have made it to the Champions League final. Their last time, 20 years ago, had ended in heartbreak at the hands of Barcelona. This time around, they will face the winner of the second semi-final between Bayern Munich and Paris Saint Germain on Wednesday …

What’s the one record that Manchester United couldn’t break even during Alex Ferguson’s time? Clue: It took 41 years | Football News

What’s the one record that Manchester United couldn’t break even during Alex Ferguson’s time? Clue: It took 41 years | Football News

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2 min readApr 21, 2026 08:37 PM IST Not even the Unforgettables of 1999 managed it, nor in 2008. It has taken Manchester United 41 years, but for the first time since 1985, the Red Devils have managed to defeat Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea in away fixtures. Back in the day, Chelsea weren’t very big. Then again, this season they are a disaster, as well. United are third on 58 points. All away, all wins, goes the refrain at ManchesterUnited, even as they haggle with Brentford to secure a Champions League spot with complicated math. The tom-tomming has begun, though it comes on the back of wretched results in all other domestic Cups and almost a game a week, and plenty of rest, even as other team endure mid-week spikes in activity. United have beaten Chelsea 1-0 and 2-1, Liverpool 2-1, Arsenal 3-2 this season with assists by Bruno Fernandes in 4 of those 6 big games. He has 18 this season. They have also beaten Everton (an away punchbag with 20 wins), Crystal Palace, …

Pep Guardiola said what Mikel Arteta couldn’t: Arsenal are still in this | Football News

Pep Guardiola said what Mikel Arteta couldn’t: Arsenal are still in this | Football News

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5 min readApr 21, 2026 06:46 PM IST Pep Guardiola uttered the reassuring words every Arsenal fan wanted to hear from Mikel Arterta. “Who is top of the league?” the Manchester City manager asked the press brigade after his team shaved off three points from Arsenal’s lead. “We are not!” he emphasised. “In goal difference, who is better?” ‘They are.” The victory over leaders, he stressed, “gives us just hope.” Time permitting, he could have added: Who has the meanest defence? Who has scored the most goals? Who are the most prolific converters of the dead ball? When the myopic angst dissipates, the City defeat would feel perhaps lighter. The sense of fatalism, the hyperventilating fans would realise, is a mere history-driven panic attack. It’s not hope that flutters, but belief that swirls. It’s the game they lost, but one that could stir them to greater feats. It could unburden them in the sense that their last formidable game is over. It was a game in which they found clarity and relief. The defeat to …

Rayan Cherki’s inventiveness, Erling Haaland’s redemption script Manchester City’s seismic win over Arsenal

Rayan Cherki’s inventiveness, Erling Haaland’s redemption script Manchester City’s seismic win over Arsenal

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When the whistle blew at the Etihad, the emotions of the managers were so spent that they could emote no more. The victorious Pep Guardiola, after a fleeting hug and a whisper in his defeated rival Mikel Arteta’s ears, rushed to greet his troops with a warm smile. Arteta, hiding his grief inside a defiant face, staggered back into the tunnel. Emotions had run them ragged. Guardiola had leapt, sunk to the touchline turf and copped a yellow card for his revolting, the old rebellious spirit seizing him. Arteta slumped and performed half a roll on the ground in the angst of Kai Havertz stoppage-time header speeding over the crossbar, Arsenal’s golden chance to draw level in the game that ended 2-1, preened and pirouetted. His men would leave Etihad top of the table, but with a crushing numbness. Arsenal had offered everything they could, defended stoutly as the meanest backline in the league is meant to do, attacked vigorously and showed more creative energy than they had in the previous weeks. But they know …

Coventry City set to return to Premier League after 25 years | Football News

Coventry City set to return to Premier League after 25 years | Football News

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2 min readApr 18, 2026 02:18 PM IST With a 1-1 draw against Blackburn Rovers on Friday night in the Championship, Coventry City ended their 25-year absence from the Premier League. Coached by Chelsea great Frank Lampard, Coventry needed one point to be mathematically ⁠certain and they got exactly that with Bobby Thomas’s equalizer. Blackburn had taken the lead shortly after the interval with a deflected shot by Ryoya Morishita. The final whistle sparked wild celebrations and frenzy on the pitch with 7,000 travelling fans. Coventry top the table ⁠with 86 points from 43 games, 13 points ahead of third-placed Millwall who ⁠can no longer catch them. Ipswich Town, Millwall, Southampton and ⁠Middlesbrough are battling for the second automatic promotion spot. A visibly ecstatic Lampard termed Coventry as a ‘serious’ football club. “This is a serious, serious football club. I grew up with them as a top-flight club, but I didn’t realise,” Lampard told Sky Sports. “Mark Robins had done an incredible job. To go and get promotion automatically as a non-parachute team with three …