European Sports News
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|  The Spanish football league (LFP) has asked the government to cut taxes on football tickets in an attempt to combat the current tough economic conditions. La Liga feels that the value-added tax (VAT) rate of 7 percent applied to tickets for amusement parks, theatres and cinemas should also be levied on football tickets. Currently the rate is 16 percent.
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 As the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games draw to a close, London 2012 organisers have been taking advantage of the final opportunity to experience and learn from an Olympic Games, before London becomes the next Olympic Host City. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) sent a team of 50 staff to Vancouver for the Games, with a specific brief to look at Games-time operations, on how the city functions at Games-time and how the enormous logistical challenges are delivered.
Led by LOCOG Chairman Sebastian Coe and CEO Paul Deighton, the LOCOG team has identified four key areas in which Vancouver excelled.
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In the worldwide scramble for Olympic tickets, the International Olympic Committee strictly prohibits countries and their agents from reselling tickets on the black market. But a U.S. ticket broker says he bought thousands of tickets from two dealers who claimed to have a pipeline to European Olympic officials.
In an interview with The Seattle Times, Gene Hammett, who owns Action Seating in Suwanee, Ga., said he purchased and resold thousands of tickets for the 2008 Beijing Games from a father and son with Hungarian connections — and recently paid one of them nearly $3 million for tickets to the Vancouver Winter Games, which come to a close Sunday.
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A two-year investigation of online Olympics ticket scams has identified defrauded consumers throughout the world and dubious ticketing practices by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), according to the Moriarty Leyendecker law firm.
Hundreds of consumers – including families and friends of Olympic athletes – have been defrauded by official-looking ticketing web sites or failed to receive tickets from "gray market" resellers during the past two Olympics, said attorney Jim Moriarty who was defrauded by an online site before the Beijing Games in 2008.
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 The BBC is reporting that Manchester police investigating a suspected ticket-touting ring have nabbed dozens of Manchester United tickets at a property in the city. More than 40 tickets for a recent match against Arsenal and dozens of season cards were found, along with £11,000 in cash.
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