West Ham United has "won a court battle with their stadium owners," E20 Stadium Group, over a £3.6M (US$4.5M) payment they were "obliged to make" after Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky bought a 27% stake in the club (London TIMES, 1/27).
The Ligue de Football Professionnel, France's soccer league, "condemned homophobic and sexist chanting" by spectators at the Nice-Marseille match last weekend. The LFP said the incident "will be discussed by its disciplinary committee on Wednesday" (AP, 1/27).
