Charlton Athletic has announced the appointment of Ged Roddy MBE as the club’s Technical Director. Roddy has spent his career working in sport including the Premier League where he was Director of Football Development and wrote the Elite Player Performance Programme (EPPP).

The quest for supporters to be welcome within English stadia continues and with a united front now forming, there is a hope but not yet an expectation, that soon the UK government will eventually bow to such pressure. Pressure that has come via a number of different mediums, none more so than a petition that has recently collected as many as 125,000 signatures, as the clamour to ‘Let Fans In’ grows with each weekend that passes.

With the new French football season underway, the ramifications of the campaign before are still being felt and with supporters not yet entering stadia at maximum capacity, a substantial burden has been placed on the finances of the clubs who operate within its league structure. A burden that without some form of outside assistance, shows no signs of abating anytime soon and with this pertinent threat looming large, a collective plea has been delivered to the nation’s government.

Although Spain and Portugal are obvious international rivals due to their close geographical proximity, it is a shared border which often provides great benefit to the two nations and they will hope this proves to be the case in the distant future. Because even though the 2030 edition of the FIFA World Cup is still an exceptionally long away, the planning phase has already begun and that means soon, a host for football’s biggest party will have to be decided.

Player 4 Player, an exciting, new player-led collective, has launched today with the mission to support current and former professional footballers in their careers on and off the pitch. Founded by elite former players, Stiliyan Petrov, Emile Heskey, Gaizka Mendieta, Michael Johnson and Gareth Farrelly, Player 4 Player will offer guidance and support across a range of services to ensure those in the professional game can achieve their absolute potential throughout and beyond their playing careers.

As the latest editions of both the Champions League and Europa League get underway, there is a sense of normality creeping back into the UEFA governed game and with some stadia even granted the ability to host supporters, the show is very much going on in terms of European football. While it is a show that will undergo something of a cosmetic tweak next season, as two midweek club competitions once again becomes three and with the arrival of the Europa Conference League on the horizon, a feast of continental action is set to be served.

On 21st-25th September, over 2,000 delegates, 130 speakers, clubs, leagues, federations, and leading figures from over 70 Countries came together at the launch of our first virtual event – Soccerex Connected. It was the first time in our 25 year history that we were unable to meet in person as we have done in 48 Cities around the world to date, but the reception from the global football community suggests that we didn’t fail to deliver an experience worthy of the Soccerex brand.

With the new French football season underway, the ramifications of the campaign before are still being felt and with supporters not yet entering stadia at maximum capacity, a substantial burden has been placed on the finances of the clubs who operate within its league structure. A burden that without some form of outside assistance, shows no signs of abating anytime soon and with this pertinent threat looming large, a collective plea has been delivered to the nation’s government.

The response to the Premier League’s decision to begin putting matches behind a paywall from football fans across the United Kingdom was typical. That’s not to say it wasn’t also justified, but the usual hullabaloo of indignation followed with fans taking to social media to vent at the powers that be for trying to make money out of them by making them pay £14.95 to watch their team play.

Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) is the club with the greatest financial power in world football according to the Soccerex Football Finance 100, the annual report from football business experts Soccerex, which uses bespoke methodology to evaluate and rank the world’s top 100 clubs according to their finances.