EU court dismisses Red Bull GmbH complaint over 2023 raids and the firm must bear legal costs.

Investigation into violations of competition laws continues. #lufc

Arch enemies Austria Salzburg and Austria Wien fans join to chant "Scheiss Red Bull" ("Fuck Red Bull") on Friday night 💜🤍 #svas #scheissredbull #neinzuRB

Via www.instagram.com/reel/DXR64bx...

#lufc

Last month it was Rapid Wien fans in solidarity with Austria Salzburg.

These are fiercely rival, traditional clubs uniting in opposition to Red Bull GmbH #svas

Red Bull Siezenheim - Austria Wien YouTube video by pyrofanatiker

Austria Wien were the visitors the day Austria Salzburg fans walked out after Red Bull GmbH's 2005 takeover to form their own club @austriasalzburg.bsky.social 👊 #svas

Arch enemies Austria Salzburg and Austria Wien fans join to chant "Scheiss Red Bull" ("Fuck Red Bull") on Friday night 💜🤍 #svas #scheissredbull #neinzuRB

Via www.instagram.com/reel/DXR64bx...

Pimps, Fixers and Fine Margins • The Square Ball Chris McMenamy wonders if Dezso Solti might provide the answers to some questions about an infamous night in Leeds United’s history.

⚽📘Wrote in Issue 7 @TheSquareBall about Dezso Solti.

A match-fixing pimp and stolen art dealer who quite likely fixed the 1973 CWC final #lufc

thesquareball.net/leeds-united...

What Can Antifascists in the UK Learn From Antifa in the US? | Dan Clayton Christopher Mathias’s new book To Catch a Fascist tells the story of a hidden war waged by antifa against the far-right in the US, and there are valuable lessons for antifascists here in Britain, writ...

Been writing about some of the lessons we can take from To Catch a Fascist by @letsgomathias.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2026/04/16/w...

Watching Fans, Monitoring Kids, Tracking Players: Knicks Surveillance, Revealed | PTFO YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

Sports owners are using tech to build private surveillance states — while taking public money.

Which means that Knicks owner James Dolan is the future.

In a new collaboration with @wired.com, we go inside how MSG secretly watches fans, surveils kids, tracks players… youtu.be/yNZ3hJPN5Vc?...

Happy 45th birthday to Pocket Calculator by Kraftwerk, released as a single on this day in 1981. Watch more of this concert, filmed for Austrian TV in 1982, at youtu.be/B55znMACT8I

Austria Wien II 1-1 Austria Salzburg FT

A fourth consecutive draw and safety in 2. Liga for Sportverein Austria Salzburg 💜 #svas

Substitution: Mathew Collins on for Christoph Gruber 80’ #svas

TORRR FÜR DIE AUSTRIA! 1-1 Rieder (pen) 68’ #svas

Should be noted btw that Middlesbrough has the parmo; although not typically in a bun it is schnitzel adjacent.

Oh man, that's great. @casmudde.bsky.social is new to me and he and @gollnerphilipp.bsky.social are good company. Plenty more episodes where that came from 👍

Austria Wien II 1-0 Austria Salzburg HT

Salzburg caught napping early on, but on top in a great atmosphere with both sets of fans going hammer and tongs in whole lot of violet 💜 #svas

All Austria since the early goal. Our Austria, that is #svas

Goal Austria Wien II, 1-0 2' #svas

Curva Viola pays its respects to former SV Austria Salzburg youth goalkeeper Alex Manninger 💜 #svas

Only ever had a schnitzelsemmel in Austria, needless to say. Salzburg’s all about the bosna tbh

Specifically, Bregenz’s 3-1 loss in Kapfenberg, but you probably already knew that #svas

Results elsewhere tonight mean @austriasalzburg.bsky.social are SAFE and will play in 2. Liga next season 💜🤍 #svas

Austria Wien II v Austria Salzburg

Violet/white v White/violet

19:30 UK 🍻

Livestream: www.laola1.at/de/sportdate...

#svas

A panel at A.GAIN/IDC Ventures' 2026 AGM in Madrid on 16 April including 49ers Enterprises’ Raminder Dhadwal, Atlético Madrid’s Valerio Gori, McKinsey & Company’s Andres Cadena and entrepreneur Jacques-Henri Eyraud discuss "the institutionalisation of football as an investable asset class"

IDC’s AGM included 49ers Enterprises' Raminder Dhadwal and Atlético Madrid Marketing Director Valerio Gori on "the institutionalization of football, evolving ownership models, and why the asset class is attracting long-term capital."

#lufc

Pimps, Fixers and Fine Margins • The Square Ball Chris McMenamy wonders if Dezso Solti might provide the answers to some questions about an infamous night in Leeds United’s history.

Pimps, Fixers and Fine Margins

@cmcmenamy.bsky.social wonders if Dezso Solti might provide the answers to some questions about an infamous night in Leeds United’s history.

Free to read from Issue 7 of our mag

thesquareball.net/leeds-united/pimps-fixers-and-fine-margins/

No bulls, nice work 👍 #neinzurb #lufc

(Although as @gollnerphilipp.bsky.social explored in a recent episode, they almost fell at the first hurdle because of a row over schnitzelsemmeln)

So I heard! It will, followed them since the restart and there came a point, probably Regionalliga West but certainly in Erste Liga which almost ended them, that the tensions you identify started to come to the fore.

"In a recent chapter called "Soccer as Civil Society," Mudde argues that professional soccer is not just entertainment — it's a political space, one that sits squarely in the terrain between the state, the market, and the community. And like democracy itself, that space is under pressure: from the commodification of the game, from multiclub ownership models that strip fans of accountability, and from the slow transformation of supporters into consumers."

I agree with @casmudde.bsky.social that football is as political it is geographical, and accept he has some hard truths for "punk" football clubs, including @austriasalzburg.bsky.social #svas #lufc

Excellent conversation with @casmudde.bsky.social on a topic I've been thinking about recently with regards to Red Bull GmbH and ServusTV: on football, democratic erosion and authoritarianism. #lufc