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2024

WHOSE RESPONSIBILITY IS IT TO STOP VINÍCIUS CRYING AND THE REFEREE RUNNING AWAY FROM THE MATCH?

The words fear and dread do not go hand in hand with sport. There's nail-biting excitement, the occasional tsunami of cheering that makes a rival team nervous, but mostly that's all. It's rare to see a grown man crying because he has a match on, or a referee calling a match off because he doesn't think the conditions are safe. The last few days have been an example of both.

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THE SCANDALOUS FOOTBALL FINAL, DECIDED BY A COIN TOSS, AND WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM IT

The referee is always right. How many and how many times have we heard it a sporting event! In fact, as the years go by, we repeat the wisdom more and more often. Wisdom? Actually, a fact. It's like the joke. There are two rules, 1) I'm always right, 2) if I'm wrong, rule number one automatically kicks in.

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2023

THE LEGAL BACKGROUND TO THE TERMINATION OF ZTE PLAYERS’ CONTRACT RAISES MANY QUESTIONS

In business and sport, not all decisions turn out to be good ones. A sports business is also a "living" organisation, requiring constant follow-up.

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CHICKEN BLOOD IN THE MOUTH OF THE MARTEN, OR THE CASE OF THE MISSING £20 MILLION

The English football championship, the Premier League, reminds me of a marten which licks the chicken blood from his mouth. If our writing were to end here - and only appear as it does - we would surely receive a perpetual supporter's membership to Everton by return of post. Although that's tempting, let's analyse a bit of sports law on whether the Premier League can be a marten. Is there really blood on the lip or is it just Everton's rage that makes it look that way.

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CAN MASSA CHALLENGE TO TAKE AWAY HAMILTON’S 2008 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE? – THE ANSWER OF THE ATTORNEY AT LAW

Is there a civil action to strip one world champion title of seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton? If so, could a tsunami of litigations and processes, which would overturn past results, be unleashed on the racing circus, and could our world championship results tables be mixed up? Can the Verstappens, Alonsos, Hakkinens and who knows how many other icons of the Formula One top league be retrospectively dethroned from the world championship?

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MANCHESTER-MONOPOLY OR THE BACKGROUND AND DETEAILS OF THE SALE OF A FOOTBALL CLUB

Sheikh of Qatar Jassim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and INEOS owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe are competing to buy Manchester United football club. The Glazer family is the current owner of the club and therefore its seller, they are negotiating with the two billionaires about the transfer of the team. But what are they discussing? What is the legal basis for buying a football team?

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INTERVIEW: Financial affairs at the top clubs: is the dexterity deal over, can the role model come?

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WHAT DOES PULLED-DOWN PANTS TEACH US – OR WHAT AND WHY WE SHOULD NOT DO SOMETHING?

Many of us have been to a school, university, or NGO where we were told cynically: "you don't have to go here." The sentence may have been uttered in a context where the specific rules were overridden by the management. He expected something from us that went beyond the specific provisions. It was because of Kyle Walker that we started our writing in a general way. We can remember that the Manchester City player recently got a little drunk (not a little, he was drunk like the old man) and showed himself to two young ladies with his pants down in a bar.

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CONTE WOULD NOT LIKE THE PRESS NOT TO PESTER HIM WITH UNPLEASANT QUESTIONS

Every reader must have noticed that in a winning team, the team members fight with each other for the press conferences. Who doesn't want to appreciate their own indispensable role in the midst of success and glamour? However, for teams that are losing or in a bad series, nobody wants to make a statement for the press. Antonio Conte, the head coach of Tottenham Hotspur in the English football league, has the most recent experience.

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2022

DID VERSTAPPEN COMMIT A LEGAL OFFENCE WHEN HE VIOLATED THE TEAM INSTRUCTIONS IN BRAZIL?

We do not break the phalanx of those who support the team instruction or those who oppose it. But if the subject is raised, let's look at the sportslaw aspects of it. Is it correct to give a team instruction? Is it fair and does it fit in with fair play? Can a request on the radio be defied or are we talking about a recommendation?

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BARCA VS. ATLÉTICO, AND THE 40 MILLION € DEBATE – THROUGH THE EYES OF A SPORTS LAWYER

It is better to give than to receive, so the saying goes. Until now, we have been led to believe that in the case of the loan, this statement is certainly true. The Spanish football championship has disproved this axiom. Loans are relatively rarely discussed in sports law analyses, so we take this opportunity to dissect them. We are grateful to Barcelona and Atlético Madrid for the opportunity.

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THE FRADI COACH WAS BEATEN AFTER THE MATCH, BUT WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?

The Hockey Club of Gyergyó has issued a statement distancing itself from the person who beat the coach at the match. As it is known, on Sunday after the match between Gyergyó Hockey Club and FTC, Szabolcs Fodor, the coach of the green and white team, was beaten up. The statement is correct, it is not appropriate. We stress in advance that we can not comment on the safety aspects of the case, and thus on any question of responsibility, in the absence of knowledge. However, a publicist may jump the gun on this case. So let us take a look at the possible consequences of break of the rules at sporting events. In general terms, of course.

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WHO WOULD THINK THERE IS A SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE VUKMIR AFFAIR AND POLYGAMY?

Most employment relationships are like marriage. Until you end one, you can't move into another. Before our readers in the multi-wife Sun-East raise an eyebrow, we are fixing our viewpoint. The news of the last few days is that Dragan Vukmir, the head coach of Szeged-Csanád GA who is serving his notice, appeared on the DVTK bench against Tiszakécske. Without knowing the documents, we can not comment on the disagreement between the two clubs. However we have the opportunity to delve a little into the possibilities of the sportsmen.

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A PSG PLAYER WHO WALKED LIKE A POLICE MAN WHO WAS NOT A POW

The chain of instruction and instruction-execution is very similar between football and the military. Just as in the trenches there is no need for lengthy discussions about the correctness of orders, so football is not a medium for prolonged brooding. This is true not only of football, but of all team sports, indeed almost all sports. The reason of the article is the case of Idrissa Gueye who is a midfielder of Paris Saint-Germain, which case burned the world press like a dry spell. He did not play against Montpellier for personal reasons. In the light of this case, it is worth reflecting on how and in what way could a sportsman ingnore the instructions of his head coach (his employer).

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DE JONG AND XAVI: WHAT OPTIONS A FOOTBALLER HAS IF DECISIONS ARE MADE WITHOUT HIM?

Barcelona head coach Xavi has reportedly told Frenkie De Jong by phone that he has agreed a deal to sell him to his current club Manchester United. The story raises a number of labour law issues, which Miklós Simor has tried to untangle.

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AGE LIMIT OF 17 DOES NOT PROTECT TEENAGER SKATERS BUT STOPS BARBARS EXPLOITING THEM

When a child wins an adult world championship, one thing is certainly not expected: the decision of the tournament organisers to make my little friend, outside wider. You can come back when you're older. No such thing? But there is! At the International Skating Federation congress in Thailand, the delegates decided to raise the age of competition to 17 in two stages.

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AMERICAN FOOTBALLER SUED FOR UNDERSSING AND STORMING OFF AFTER THE PLAY

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (also) world famous receiver Antonio Brown tackled, threw his tackle against the New York Jets and was sacked. Or before this action he was fired. Or fired because of the action. All of this is perhaps an interesting enough story to analyse through the eyes of an outsider sports lawyer.

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2021

C. RONALDO’S COCA-COLA SNUB

Where Cristiano Ronaldo is, there are cases. Without a doubt He provided the most spicy sports law case of the European Football Championship.

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MOURINHO, HIS PLAYERS AND THE BICYCLE CHAIN

Since José Mourinho entered the scene, he has been able to thematize football topics. Now he has the attitude of avoiding responsibility on stage: the Tottenham-Newcastle match was a draw, for which the players were to blame for the Portuguese coach, as he stated: "the coach is the same, but the players are different. Yes, but Tottenham's players look at their coach's statements as grimly as the Christian martyr who is due next at the lions. And this is causing more and more people to lose their bike chain.

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IS IT A CRIMINAL ACT TO STEAL KATINKA HOSSZÚ’S TRAINING SCHEDULE?

We state in advance that we cannot take a position in the case of Katinka Hosszú's exercise plan theft/sale. We don't have enough data for this. Speaking of which, however, we can take a dip in the azure, lukewarm lake of legal cases related to training plans. Movies and novels tend to start or end with "the characters and the story are all figments of the imagination," but this is an article, we won't do that. We will notice some contingencies that may have occurred in the case of the Olympian.

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EASY FOR MESSI, UNEASY FOR BARCELONA FOR LEAKING OUT THE CONTRACT

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THE STANDARD OF STANDARDS: WHO AND HOW GETS ON WORLD RANKING IN ATHLETICS?

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Let the wind out of our adversary’s sails

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2020

RULES OF RUNNING IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS!

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HOW TO GET AWAY WITH DOPING FOR SURE?

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MISSTEPS OF FORMER MARATHON WORLD RECORD HOLDER IN DOPING OFFENSE

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WHEREABOUTS DOPING FAILURE OF PROFESSIONALS

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LEARNING BY RUNNING – RULES OF RUNNING DURING SHUTDOWNS

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WADA: High-time to sort out innocents and deliberate fraudsters

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Czech Football Federation accused of corruption

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When a left hand is in focus instead of a right leg

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Sports law expert on Timi Babos’ case: infringements during disqualification?

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Should he be fired, priciest goalkeeper could even invoke coronavirus

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Due to equipment manager’s positive corona virus test at Dinamo, whole staff is forced for a 14-day rest

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2019

LEWANDOWSKI ‘COMES TO BLOWS’ WITH BAYERN MUNICH TEAMMATE COMAN – AND WHAT THEY DID NOT THINK OF

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