There was good news for football fans this week when UEFA announced that fans will be allowed to attend this year’s European football championships, UEFA 2020. It...
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Was revenue from smuggling used to finance the swift rise of a Ukrainian football team from obscurity to the country’s highest tier? A fresh corruption scandal has...
Criticism of Octavian Șovre, a Romanian referee who asked Borussia Dortmund star Erling Haaland for an autograph at the end of a Champions League match this week...
It was the sporting conundrum of the week: would Poland’s footballers ‘take a knee’ ahead of their game against England at Wembley on March 31? They...
England host Poland in a World Cup qualifier on March 31, rekindling a football rivalry that stretches back many decades. While the English team will take a knee as part...
A football team from the Ukrainian town of Rivne is set for an IPO: the first in the country for 15 years. Besides providing a boost for the country’s stock...
Ukrainian football has a glorious past and considerable pedigree, but its domestic league is in trouble. When Andriy Shevchenko won the Champions League with Milan in...
Football in parts of Eastern Europe during the communist period was a hotbed of intrigue and outright corruption. It was also the home of technological innovation...
A Moldovan rugby player has been the subject of fierce debate in recent weeks following an incident that left an opponent unconscious. In Cardiff, he’s known as...
Coaches from outside Great Britain and Ireland are now commonplace in England’s Premier League, the richest in world football, but just 30 years ago they were...
Under pressure from sponsors, the International Ice Hockey Federation has stripped Belarus of its right to co-host the 2021 World Ice Hockey Championships. The...
Emerging Europe is full of people who have lived remarkable lives, but few are more remarkable than the Hungarian gymnast Ágnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic...