As I am sure you will remember from Sport and the Law, arbitration is quick and cheap in comparison with the timely and expensive process of engaging with the civil court system.
08.02.2026 20:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We are thrilled to announce that our teaching and research staff, @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social and @lucyfrith.bsky.social, have had their books shortlisted for the @slsauk.bsky.social Prizes 2026. Congratulations! @uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social
06.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
30 seconds after you submit the article.
03.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
They will need a particular setting for when there's a football match on and the normal rules of the road don't apply.
03.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I always took down my decorations immediately after twelfth night and yet, 16 years ago, a goblin took up residence in my house and has been causing mischief in it ever since.
02.02.2026 10:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
Today is Candlemas
If you have not cleared all your Christmas decorations by today, a demon hiding behind them will cause dire mischief in your house for the rest of the year.
See my popular post on this: emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
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After Bayern Munich (at home to Union SG) and Eintracht Frankfurt (away at Qarabag), Young Boys are the third fan scene to successfully circumvent a collective UEFA punishment this season.
29.01.2026 20:48 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
VfB Stuttgart at home to Young Boys in the Europa League this evening - and ultras from the Ostkurve Bern in an improvised away end at the Neckarstadion after circumventing a UEFA ban with help from their Stuttgart counterparts.
29.01.2026 20:41 — 👍 41 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
Floodlit football stadium packed with fans watching a UEFA match. Overlaid text reads: “FSE Away Fans Survey 2025/25 Season – UEFA Champions League, UEFA Women’s Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Women’s Europa Cup, UEFA Conference League,” with the Football Supporters Europe (FSE) logo in the corner.
✈️ Followed your team away to a #UCL match last night? We want to hear from you.
🗣️ From ticketing & travel to accessibility & stewarding — share your experience, good or bad, in FSE's 2025/26 #AwayFanSurvey.
👉 Take part: https://bit.ly/4oMENsO
29.01.2026 12:49 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
I lost all respect for him after his p!ss poor selection choices for the Fellowship of the Ring.
29.01.2026 19:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I can feel my quantitatively minded colleagues becomning as cross as my spellchecker.
27.01.2026 21:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Where are the poppy patriots? Why are they completely silent on this grotesque insult to our armed forces and specifically the 2,000 UK service and civilian personnel who were injured and the 457 who died in Afghanistan?
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We set out our arguments more clearly here, using a number of case studies of 'intelligence led' football operations, some of which were superb, some of which were a shambles. But very few operations, good or bad, played out how the intelligence suggested they would.
22.01.2026 10:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
There were examples of (even anonymous) social media posts being included in intelligence reports so unsurprisingly that Google & AI are sometimes used. There are of course many examples of good practice & it should be remembered that generally UK football policing is years ahead of most countries.
22.01.2026 10:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Combined with an understandable risk-averse approach to policing football and the way police resource can be locked into fixtures at an early stage, good quality intelligence rarely leads to a downgraded risk categorisation, while poor quality information can increase risk it.
22.01.2026 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This was inevitable unfortunately. It's as much to do with how football intelligence is gathered/used as it is the appeal of AI tools. Cliff Stott & I have written on football intel and observed a number of patterns. The gap between information & intelligence in this arena can be vanishingly thin.
22.01.2026 10:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sky Sports have decided that 20.00 on a Friday night is the most appropriate kick-off time for Bournemouth v Man Utd. The last train back to Manchester leaves Bournemouth 15 minutes before kick-off. #mufc
21.01.2026 16:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fighting cats
This pair have been an absolute menace for the duration of me trying to write the Human Rights and Policing book. I really could do with the opposite of an Acknowledgements section to reference them in.
21.01.2026 14:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feels different down here. Pretty much everyone I know who qualified as a teacher has left the profession.
21.01.2026 11:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Quantifiably, looks like 87% more history there. That's #science. Now how do I tag in Prof Hannah Fry?
21.01.2026 11:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
They are the worst in Europe. And show absolutely no interest in improving.
20.01.2026 13:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
French police, football fans, and a history of violence: 'They don’t care'
“The way the French police football games is completely outdated… it doesn’t meet any of the modern standards of de-escalation.”
FSE Executive Director Ronan Evain on the dangerous treatment of fans by French authorities & the failure to learn lessons from the 2022 UCL final.
📰 nyti.ms/4quGGuK
20.01.2026 13:10 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
How AI Destroys Institutions
Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies
@garymarcus.bsky.social: Two Boston University law professors, Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey, just posted preprint of a new paper that blew me away, called How AI Destroys Institutions. I urge you to read—and reflect—on it, ASAP.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
19.01.2026 15:32 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
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