Whilst there is currently a considerable amount of uncertainty over the regulations and the relatively new FFAR (‘FIFA Football Agent Regulations’) with the industry awaiting a key ruling from the ECJ (European Court of Justice), does the football agent industry really need a belated intervention from yet another authority?...
Following my move into the mediation profession, I have noted several factors that I believe are evidence of the growth of mediation being stifled, if not an element of self-destruction somewhat from within. This article may seem pretty much a paradox in itself, and I may come to contradict myself...
When the term 'equality of arms’ is used in the same context as mediation, it immediately prompts consideration as to whether mediation was a very useful, if not the ultimate tool in providing an ‘equality of arms’ in a dispute....
So, in endeavouring to bring mediation to the professional sports world and most notably football (soccer), my own journey has been one littered with huge frustration, bewilderment and annoyance at the seeming resistance of many to contemplate mediation or even understand it....
Are Agents the Oil in the Football Machine, Doing the Grubby Jobs that No-One Else Wants ………. But an Integral Part of a Functioning Engine? ...
Without going into too much detail about the case; not least out of respect for the process I was fortunate enough to get first-hand experience of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS / TAS). I was neither the claimant or respondent in the case; I was however requested to...
The worst waste of time is arguing with the fool and fanatic who does not care about truth or reality, but only the victory of his beliefs and illusions. Never waste time on arguments that don't make sense...
I haven’t suggested the possibility of mediation to the dispute between FIFA and Football Agents over new regulations for my own benefit as a mediator – although in a perverse kind-of-way, I would relish being part of the assigned mediation team in this dispute, but the responses to the idea...
