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Proportionality and Strict Liability: The Analysis of Southampton Spygate Punishment.

Inside Football, News

Southampton spygate punishment resulted in one of the most unprecedented disciplinary outcomes in English football history as the club was expelled from the 2025-26 EFL Championship play-offs after admitting to the breaches of EFL Regulations 3.4 (Utmost Good Faith) and 127.1 (Prohibited Conduct:  Observing Training Sessions). The controversy, widely dubbed “Spygate,” came to light when

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Pass or Fail the FIFA 2026 Agent Exam, Your Football Agent Journey Doesn’t End Today

FIFA Agent Exam, Football Agency

The FIFA 2026 Agent Exam results are out today, and if you are reading this, you are probably feeling one of two things, either the quiet satisfaction of seeing your name on the right side of the result on the FIFA portal, or the sting of knowing you have to go again. Both feelings are

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Three Years of FIFA Clearing House: A Financial Nightmare or a Gamechanger?

Editorial

The FIFA Clearing House, endorsed by the FIFA Council in October 2018 and introduced in November 2022, was FIFA’s response to a deeply flawed transfer system. Prior to its introduction, payments were made directly between clubs, and claims only submitted to FIFA after disputes occurred. The result was a system in which training clubs were

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The Role of a Football Scout vs a Football Agent

Football Agency

If you follow football closely, you have probably heard both terms thrown around in the same conversations. Scouts and agents both orbit the same world, attend many of the same stadiums, and sometimes work with the same players. But their roles, responsibilities, and the regulatory frameworks that govern them are very different from each other.

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The Difference Between Knowing the Rules and Being Able to Apply Them Under FIFA Agent Exam Conditions

FIFA Agent Exam

There is a specific kind of panic that sets in during the FIFA Agent Exam. Not the panic of someone who has not studied. The panic of someone who has studied, who knows the regulations, who has read the FFAR and the RSTP cover to cover, and who is now staring at a question that

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How to Use Practice Questions to Identify Your Weak Areas Before the Exam

FIFA Agent Exam

Most FIFA Agent Exam candidates treat practice questions the wrong way. They work through a set, check how many they got right, feel good or bad about the score, and move on. That approach wastes one of the most valuable tools available to you before exam day. Practice questions are diagnostic instruments, using them as

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Why Candidates Who Practice With Exam-Standard Questions Pass More Consistently

FIFA Agent Exam

The FIFA Agent Exam has a brutal reputation, and the numbers back it up. In 2025, only 18% of candidates passed. Most candidates who fail are not unintelligent, many of them studied. However, the problem stems from how they studied. If you are sitting for the exam this April, reading this post may be the

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