The Bundesliga is set to kick off amid a destabilising dispute over television rights. Click to continue reading...

Uefa agreed three new television rights deals with Spanish television broadcasters for the Champions League and Super Cup, covering the seasons 2009-10 to 2011-12. Click to continue reading...

The journalist and broadcaster Danny Baker once noted that the primary role of a football commentator is to make the exasperated television viewer shout "WE KNOW!" at the television screen during matches, to the extent that it famously used to drive his father to his distraction. Sadly, Mr Baker Senior passed away earlier this year - not quite long enough to be able to raise a toast to the retirement of John Motson, the veteran BBC commentator, who has announced his retirement from live commentary from the BBC following their failure to secure major television rights ahead of the new season. Click to continue reading...

The president of Real Madrid is ready to emulate Florentino Perez and Cup this summer the covers of every newspaper. If the former leader Madrid paid just over 80 million euros -13,500 million pesetas-old to Juventus for Zinedine Zidane in the summer of 2001, Ramon Calderon would be willing to do the same with the Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo if the Manchester United made the meñor winking at the white or if the 'red devils' decide to fill the coffers of the entity. Click to continue reading...

In 2006, John O'Neil announced that the FFA had signed a television contract with Foxtel worth $120 million which would secure for Foxtel the broadcast rights to basically all top-level domestic football as well as Australian internationals for the next seven years. Everything was given to Foxtel, except for the next two World Cups. Click to continue reading...