Manchester City: Be a Water Hero Pledge
BE A WATER HERO Want to help save the world from drought? Watch the film and pledge to be a Water Hero. ...
Medical chiefs call for ban on junk food advertising in sport after Covid death rates linked to UK obesity
The British Medical Association is leading calls for a ban on junk food advertising within sport. The doctors’ union has joined forces with MPs and campaigners in demanding curbs on the industry’s promotion of fatty and sugary food and drink brands ...
Lewes FC’s Claire Rafferty: ‘I hope one day every day is International Women’s Day’
“I hope one day we don’t have to have special days and every single day is International Women’s Day,” says Claire Rafferty. It is a sentence that sums up the former England player’s involvement with Lewes FC as ...
English football hopes for US sports link-up in fight against online abuse
English football authorities are set to reach out to US sports in a global push against racist abuse on social media. On the day the Newcastle manager, Steve Bruce, revealed he had ...
Forest Green Rovers hope recycled coffee kit will prove a good fit
Already in a league of their own when it comes to sustainability in sport, innovative English soccer club Forest Green Rovers will trial a kit made from coffee bean waste on Saturday. Rovers, owned by ‘green energy’ entreprenaur Dale Vince, will ...
Watford FC endorses safer gambling message via RecoverMe partnership
Watford FChas strengthened its commitments to responsible and safer gambling via a partnership with mobile health app RecoverMe. RecoverMe was developed by three junior NHS doctors with the aim of increasing awareness of gambling treatment options. Continue reading… ...
Chicago Fire FC teaming with Juan Mata’s Common Goal to launch The Anti-Racist Project
Chicago Fire FC have joined forces with Common Goal, co-founded by World Cup-winner Juan Mata, to help launch the Anti-Racist Project, an action-based approach to tackling systemic racism in football and society, the club announced Wednesday. The new project, which launched Wednesday, ...
Revealed: 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar as it gears up for World Cup
More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago, the Guardian can reveal. The findings, compiled from ...
Football clubs helping local communities during lockdown
The terraces are silent, the crowd is missing and matchdays for many Scottish football clubs and their fans have become a distant memory. But from delivering free lunches to helping the vulnerable, footballers and their clubs have emerged as perhaps ...
Match-fixing game changer: Sportradar makes fraud detection system free to leagues
In what could be a game-changing move in the battle against match-fixing, Sportradar is to make its Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS) available free of charge to sport organisations. Sportradar said it will fund the free UFDS service which will ...