FC Midtylland, Southampton’s Europa League opponents tonight, are challenging long-held and accepted ways of doing things in football by gradually replacing traditional scouting with a mix of statistics and video analysis...

Uefa has been accused of sweeping the issue of match-fixing under the carpet for the best part of a decade after one of Britain’s foremost professional gamblers revealed he contacted European football’s governing body as long ago as 2005 to warn of the problem.