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...

The challenge for those who govern football is how to keep it alive as they attempt to tackle the sports’s debt crisis.

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.