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New work permit rules start to bite……
New work permit rules came into force on 1st May 2015 but with the transfer window in full swing, clubs are only starting to discover the impact. Sheffield Wednesday have hit difficulties in trying to sign former Leeds … Continue reading
Training Compensation; the Category 4 loophole?
In the latest of a series of articles discussing training compensation, we take a look at a potential solution that players and their advisers might consider where (a) they can not sign for a new club without the former … Continue reading
EPPP : the curious YD forms?
Shortly after the introduction of the much heralded Elite Player Performance Plan (“EPPP”) I had cause to write an article; EPPP: can the player vote with his feet ? What I had perhaps not envisaged at the time was quite how … Continue reading
Full Contact Racing Driver Management
As a parent you will want what’s best for your son / daughter and will rely on your management team to guide, advise and make suitable recommendations that will ultimately achieve your / their aim either within the chosen … Continue reading
Player Solidarity Payments: a hidden goldmine?
After advising a lower league football club this week that they were owed substantial sums of money in respect of a player solidarity payment, it has occurred to me that many clubs – in these difficult economic times for … Continue reading
Playing for Kicks: the Consequences of Sporting Violence
Rumbling along in the background to the recent Lions tour of Australia was an interesting disciplinary issue concerning an alleged stamp by Australian captain James Horwill on Alun-Wyn Jones. The incident, which went unnoticed at the time, was cited, … Continue reading
Financial Fair Play not so Fair?
The Legal Weasel had been wondering when the first legal challenge to UEFA’s Financial Fair Play Rules would be made. The FFP rules, you will recall, are the brainchild of UEFA presudent Michel Platini, and are designed to ensure … Continue reading
Information and Consultation in TUPE – the SPFA’s case against Rangers
The Professional Football Association for Scotland (SPFA) has brought a claim at the Employment Tribunal against Rangers FC for the old club’s failure to inform and consult about the TUPE transfer of players from the oldco to the newco. The … Continue reading
Much Adu About Nothing
Today’s modern footballer needs more than just talent to succeed – they need a whole host of factors to align in their favour. Yes, talent is crucial, but so are hard work, dedication, and sacrifice. Further, and of growing … Continue reading
Yuri Ruh Dos Santos – amazing football skills
Chances are you will never have heard of an aspiring young football player called Yuri Ruh Dos Santos, he’s only 14 years of age and lives in Spain. To be remarkable you need to be remarked upon and this … Continue reading
Work Permits for Footballers – what are the options?
In this article I consider the topic of work permits for footballers, an increasingly important issue and one which Full Contact are frequently being asked to advise upon. We have recently seen the opening of England’s new training HQ, St George’s Park … Continue reading
When you’re in a hole, stop digging?
One of the oldest and most venerable maxims in the Law is Ubi in foramine es, desiste fodere. Or, to put it in the vernacular, when you’re in a hole, stop digging. The Legal Weasel was reminded of this … Continue reading
KP and the Workplace Mediation
Workplace mediation is increasingly being considered as the preferred method of dispute resolution by employers, and those in the sporting industry ought to be no different. The Legal Weasel has today been considering the Kevin Pietersen affair in that context … Continue reading
Hillsborough Disaster: A summary of the Report of the Independent Panel
The Hillsborough Independent Panel has presented its 395-page report on the Hillsborough disaster of April 15, 1989 in which 96 Liverpool fans went to a football match and never came home. After years of pain and anguish the families of the … Continue reading
Levy leaves his business too late again
AVB’s bruising initiation to the Premiership has continued after a difficult start to his reign as Tottenham manager. He will have been desperate to begin the season in convincing fashion, both to help put some of his Chelsea ghosts … Continue reading