Fifa Super League: Infantino discussed having governing body’s name on European breakaway

Fifa Super League: Infantino discussed having governing body’s name on European breakaway

* Document shows Fifa staff were involved in project * Fifa was prepared to sideline member associations Gianni Infantino held talks about rebranding the ill-fated European breakaway competition the “Fifa Super League” in 2021, with negotiations going as far as the term sheet for an agreement that would have changed the face of European football. The term sheet, whose full contents can be revealed for the first time, proposes renaming any new competition under Fifa’s branding and outlines the extent to which Infantino’s administration were implicated in a scheme that later caused widespread revulsion among fans and excluded clubs. It also reveals that Fifa was prepared to sideline its member associations in pushing plans to cut back the number of international windows and outlines how global football’s governing body would have been given special governance and political rights with a “golden share”. Continue reading...

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Been saying for several years that oil&gas are just following the tobacco playbook verbatim. And we are falling for it again. Data centres/AI is the next one, currently implementing chapter 1

Blue Oleta@blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20h ago

A very happy Joe Allen Day to all those who celebrate #lufc

Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?

@torontopearson.bsky.social treating people like low quality cattle for decades. Literally only 12 seats in the gate area, 10 minute line up to take a piss, food areas grubby, all after bodies all over the shop to clear security. Simply not good enough.

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After 38 hours of travel, back in Canada

Just watched Deliver Me From Nowhere on flight from Hong Kong to Toronto. Very good, definitely recommended. Next up I Swear.

In the Premium Plaza Lounge in Melbourne airport, after flying down from Cairns. Advertised as open until 11pm. Get in at 8pm (flight is 11:50pm so pretty much earliest we could check bags), virtually no food left and staff are clearing the remaining dregs away, and not replacing. Pissed right off!

According to the captioning on the official #lufc YouTube channel highlights from yesterday, we had Mateusz Klich and Bogusz playing for us again. Klich got the winner.

Academia is broken part 127,432

Science Magazine@science.org · 6d ago

"The academic structure … makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury." In this Working Life, two postdocs share how, as women in academia, having children can feel impossible—and how talking about it makes them feel less alone. https://scim.ag/46uBWgD #InternationalDayOfFriendship

"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can." - Frank #Zappa

Well this is a nice new example for my first year course on the difficulty of assigning historical ownership of knowledge for health promoting herbal concoctions

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7d ago

Was Florentine friars’ fatigue-fighting elixir a precursor to Coca-Cola?

Beetroot on burgers. Who’d a think it.

Utter ignorami running USA. RFK & Trump fought every preventative measure & promoted quackery in its place. Now they blame the person whose efforts they actively blocked. USA needs to be added to every other countries no travel list. It’s the single biggest danger to humanity we have ever faced.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃

I’m excited to announce that new courses at @memorialu.bsky.social @memorialuscience.bsky.social were approved. They are Science 2155: Indigenous Astronomies and Worldviews and Science 3155: Outer Space and Society. These courses are a big part of building astronomy at MUN.

Business rates to be cut by 20% for England pubs, clubs and music venues

Business rates to be cut by 20% for England pubs, clubs and music venues

No 10 announces reprieve after Andy Burnham previously pledged to raise tax from e-commerce warehouses and channel it to cutting hospitality sector’s bills Business rates will be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues across England from April next year, Downing Street has announced. The discount will apply to nearly 32,000 hospitality businesses and is expected to save a typical pub about £1,100 annually, but will not be available to the very largest live music venues. Continue reading...

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About bloody time

NTV News@ntvnewsnl.bsky.social · 2w ago

N.L. joins other provinces in direct-to-consumer alcohol sales ntv.ca/news/n-l-joi...

Summerville to AlHilal. WTF is he thinking

Well this’ll cripple US Agriculture. Where ya gonna get your potash from fuckwit. Genuinely sorry for American friends but seeing him utterly crash the entire country is pleasurable. We don’t need reciprocal tariffs, we’ll just re double our efforts at not buying American shit

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Donald Trump to impose 50% tariff on most Canadian goods, White House says

the most realistic scene in Jurassic Park is when two scientists make a questionable decision — traveling to an undisclosed location with a strange man — on the promise of three years of modest funding

Got an old Kevin Keegan annual from the 78ish somewhere. He was incredibly complimentary and supportive of Revie as England manager in it. Dont remember too many others defending Don at that time.

If I did after one of my masters games what the Argentinians did, I’d be looking at a double digit game suspension minimum. Let’s see what FIFA do, especially given this is now 2 games in a row they’ve pulled something post final whistle

Look he’s a complete tool and his analysis is crap, but Rooney speaking for every true soccer fan here

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wayne Rooney speaks for everyone.

Look, it's not Canada's fault it takes an entire forest of sage to try to smudge out the U.S.'s evil spirits.

Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.

Happy 45th birthday to Soft Cell's version of Tainted Love, released on this day in 1981

RIP Garry Sobers www.espncricinfo.com/story/garry-...

Garry Sobers dies, aged 89

Former West Indies allrounder passed away at his home in Barbados

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So long Melbourne, I will certainly miss the coffee, although perhaps not the $18 pints. Conference was great, lots of Education-related contacts, and as a bonus met my Australian "fan club". Next up full vacation mode and on to Adelaide to pick up a camper van & head in to the Outback.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”