Posts Tagged g-14
Dinner with Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini
This week’s Run of Play at Pitch Invasion feature finds me traveling to a suburban Red Lobster in order to have dinner with FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini. Our conversation touches on matters ranging from the cartographic largess of the American Denny’s to the break-up of the G-14.
ME: So [...]
Welcome to the New World Order
The G-14 has agreed to disband in a deal with FIFA that will see clubs receive compensation for players taking part in international duty. The details are extremely vague at this point, and the deal seems to be limited to a “letter of intent,” but at least until more information emerges this looks like [...]
UEFA v. The G-14: The Short History of a Pointless Disagreement
Somewhere in the far-off background static of football news this week, behind Champions League results and concern that Pele’s ego has finally eaten his brain, you might have caught the dim suggestion of an idea that the very fabric of European football is about to be ripped apart. The details are probably swimming at [...]
