#fan-protests

#fan-protests

Liam Rosenior looks up at the towering Strasbourg Kop. He shouts and pleads as he points to his players, demanding the fans applaud them. Met with hostility, boos and jeers in the stands, he cuts a lone figure, one at pains to sow unity at a divided club. Strasbourg had just won the game, beating Le Havre 1-0 earlier this season, but the club's fans were in no mood to celebrate.

Wolves sit bottom of the Premier League after taking just two points from their first 16 games in a historically bad start to the campaign. Only Sheffield United (also two points at this stage of 2020-21, finally winning their 18th match) have ever made such a poor start to a Premier League season, excluding Portsmouth, who also had two points in 2009-10 but had suffered a nine-point deduction. Wolves are winless in their last 20 Premier League matches (D3 L17), and there have only ever been four longer runs in the competition's history.

Soccer fans have accused FIFA of a "monumental betrayal" after latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate on Thursday.The governing body allocates 8% of tickets to national associations for games involving their team to sell to the most loyal fans.And a list published by the German soccer federation revealed prices ranged from $180-$700 for varying group stage games. The lowest price for the final was $4,185 and the highest was $8,680.

Arsenal's controversial sponsorship partnership with Visit Rwanda will end in June, the club have announced. The deal, reportedly worth in the region of 10m a year, began in 2018 and has come under scrutiny amid Rwanda's support for the M23 militia in conflicts taking place in the eastern part of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Federico Dimarco couldn't wait to get off the pitch at the end of a late, but meaningless, 2-0 win against Moldova and his Italy teammates and coach Gennaro Gattuso weren't far behind, none of them acknowledging the 400 Italy supporters who had made the trip to Chișinău. Protests against the Italian Federation and chants directed at the players and Gattuso, who has only been in charge of the team since June, prompted the coach to hit back at the traveling fans and highlight the pressure that the coach and squad are under.

Fire Nico!

The Curva Sud will be back at San Siro for Milan-Fiorentina tonight, and they have made a request to fans in the stadium. Milan have had a huge home advantage in recent seasons, but 2025-26 started strangely. Due to the Curva Sud's protests, it was very quiet during the early home matches in which the away fans were often the only ones that could be heard.

I heard it. They're fans, they want to see their team win, and they're entitled to their opinion. Nothing surprises me in football any more. Just got to keep going. There is no hiding in the sport we're in. Got to keep your head up and recover. We have a tough game against Newcastle at the weekend.

"Stephen Ross, the Dolphins owner, does not want to fire Mike McDaniel. He doesn't," NFL Network's Ian Rapoport said on the Amazon Prime Video pregame show. "He wants this to work, likes him. He believes in him. He has invested in him, including giving him a contract extension."

in its recently developed stands and on the pitch where, in two years, they have gone from perennial relegation strugglers to Champions League candidates. The motor for change was BlueCo's purchase of the club in 2023. The takeover was met with stout opposition and the team's upward trajectory since has done little to remould public opinion. I feel like we are back at the beginning. I am so disappointed with the reaction, complained Liam Rosenior on Sunday, exasperated by the latest fan protests.

If it hadn't been for the football, Daniel Levy would be regarded as one of the great club executives. He oversaw the construction of what is widely regarded as the best club stadium in England. Tottenham's training ground is one of the best in Europe. He kept costs low. He has diversified the business, so the club hosts NFL, rugby, boxing, monster trucks and major concerts.