By Andrew Warshaw
April 13 – Tottenham Hotspur have taken the first step in their efforts to secure a judicial review to overturn the decision to hand the £537 million ($836 million) Olympic Stadium to Premier League rivals West Ham United after next year’s Games.
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By Andrew Warshaw
April 13 – Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov is refusing to sell his stake in Arsenal, seemingly determined to stop majority owner Stan Kroenke from gaining any further control of the Premier League club.
By David Gold
April 12 – The influential Arsenal Supporters’ Trust (AST) has issued a statement insisting that it wants to remain a part of the club’s ownership structure and will not be selling shares acquired through the Arsenal fanshare scheme to American Stan Kroenke, who mounted a takeover of the club this week.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 11 – Arsenal, one of the great institutions of English football, are poised to become the latest Premier League club to fall into foreign hands after American businessman Stan Kroenke took a controlling stake in the North London club.
By Andrew Warshaw at SportAccord in London
April 8 – Keith Harris, the guru of football takeovers, has warned the gap between rich and poor clubs will become even wider as a result of the current economic crisis.
By Mike Rowbottom at SportAccord in London
April 7 – Peter Kenyon, the former Manchester United and Chelsea chief executive, believes the kind of bad publicity generated by Wayne Rooney’s latest public swearing outburst will inevitably cause major sponsors to reassess their options with regard to investing in individual sporting performers.
By Andrew Warshaw in London
April 6 – English football can never embrace a winter break unless FIFA and UEFA do something about fixture congestion, the Premier League claimed today.
By David Gold
April 4 – West Ham have pledged to take seriously and investigate claims that the families of forwards Victor Obinna and Frederic Piquionne were racially abused during the 4-2 defeat to Manchester United last weekend.
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 31 – England will never produce a winning national team unless they stop concentrating on short-term club success and adopt the German model of youth development.
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 31 – Liverpool do not need to qualify for the Champions League in order to attract world-class players and rekindle past glories, their managing director Ian Ayre pledged today.
By David Gold
March 31 – Newcastle United have insisted that the club remains intent on re-establishing itself as a European contender despite recording a loss after player trading of £17.1 million ($27.4 million) for the year ending June 2010.
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 31 – Manchester City defender Kolo Toure made an unscheduled appearance at the Soccerex conference in Manchester today but refused to discuss the positive drugs test that has kept him out of action.
By Andrew Warshaw in Manchester
March 30 – UEFA’s new financial fair play rules will be “killed” unless sanctions are applied properly against clubs who break the rules and all loopholes are closed off, Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre warned today.
By David Gold
March 30 – Tottenham Hotspur have launched a legal challenge to the decision to give the 2012 Olympic stadium to Premier League rivals West Ham after the conclusion of the London Olympics.
By David Gold
March 29 – Football Association general secretary Alex Horne has said that English football has a decision to make about the state of the game’s finances, whilst chairman David Bernstein suggested that there may have to be measures designed to control the spiralling finances in the game.