Andy Burnham wants tighter controls on club ownership. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid
The culture secretary, Andy Burnham, has backed Sepp Blatter’s call for tighter rules on club ownership and insists it is vital to restore “confidence” among supporters.
The Fifa president appeared before MEPs at the European Union yesterday when he claimed investment in football was “out of [...]

Blatter is pressing on with his plans for foreign player quotas. Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images
The Fifa president Sepp Blatter is confident that his controversial ’six-plus-five’ rule will be in place by the 2012-13 season after the plans received the backing of key members of Europe’s football hierarchy.
Blatter, in Sydney for Fifa’s annual congress, said rules [...]