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The Football Association has agreed to sign its television rights to England qualifying matches to Uefa in a deal worth about £100 million which now clears the way for Uefa to press ahead with plans to centralize the rights to all qualifying matches for the 2016 European Championship and 2018 World Cup, enhancing the organization’s power and ...

via UEFA.com The Control and Disciplinary Body has also imposed a one-match ban on the Tottenham Hotspur FC assistant manager Joe Jordan following incidents that took place at their UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg against AC Milan in Italy on 15 February. In Jordan's case, the punishment applies to Tottenham's next game in the ...

via UEFA.com Arsenal FC manager Arsène Wenger and midfield player Samir Nasri have both been suspended for one UEFA club competition match following charges of improper conduct relating to the English team's UEFA Champions League game against FC Barcelona in Spain on 8 March. The UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body today decided to suspend ...

via Guardian The manager remains furious at the Swiss referee Massimo Busacca for giving Robin van Persie a second yellow card on 56 minutes for kicking the ball away, a decision he maintains "destroyed" the last-16 second leg at the Camp Nou and allowed Barcelona to advance. "The only thing that people remember is that the sending off killed ...

via Guardian Arsène Wenger and Samir Nasri have each been charged with improper conduct by Uefa for comments the manager and his midfielder are alleged to have made to Massimo Busacca who refereed Barcelona's 3-1 defeat of Arsenal that knocked them out of the Champions League on Tuesday night. The club also faces a secondary charge that it was ...

via UEFA UEFA will tonight present a cheque for €100,000 to FC Barcelona and Spain defender Carles Puyol, who amassed more than 230,000 votes to be named captain of the UEFA.com users' Team of the Year 2010. Puyol will donate the cheque to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). William Gaillard, adviser to UEFA president ...

The FA is in increasingly tense negotiations with the European governing body, which wants to centralise the sale of all television rights to European Championship qualifying matches, mirroring the arrangements that have proved successful in the Champions League and Europa League. The measures have proved popular with small and medium-sized ...

via UEFA AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso has been suspended for four UEFA club competition matches by the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body, following incidents that took place at last Tuesday's UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg against Tottenham Hotspur FC in Italy. The Control and Disciplinary body ruled that Gattuso had ...