By David Gold
March 21 – Fabrice Muamba has held a “brief” conversation with his Bolton Wanderers manager Owen Coyle as he continues to show positive signs after suffering a cardiac arrest during an FA Cup tie last weekend.
By David Gold
March 17 – Bolton Wanderers midfielder Fabrice Muamba (pictured) is in a North London hospital tonight after collapsing during an FA Cup tie with Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane.
By Tom Degun at the International Sport Security Conference in Doha
March 15 – English Premier League chairman Sir David Richards (pictured) has formally apologised for his surprising antics that took place here yesterday that saw him accuse FIFA and UEFA of stealing football in England before rather symbolically ending the day by falling into a swimming pool.
By Tom Degun at the International Sport Security Conference in Doha
March 14 – English Premier League chairman Sir David Richards has caused outrageous scenes here at the International Sport Security Conference as he attacked FIFA and UEFA for stealing football in England before bizarrely ending the day by falling into a swimming pool to put himself even further in the spotlight.
By David Gold
March 2 – Aston Villa have lost a record £54 million ($86 million/€64 million) for the year ending May 31, 2011, though they have made £92 million ($146 million/€109 million) in revenues, also a new club record.
By David Gold
March 1- Arsenal have recorded a pre-tax profit of £49.5 million (€58 million/$79 million) for the six months to November 30, 2011.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 29 – An English pub landlady has won the latest stage in her fight with the Premier League over using a foreign decoder to show live top-flight games.
By David Gold
February 23 – Glasgow Rangers owner Craig Whyte (pictured) has severed the club’s historic link with Arsenal by selling shares the Scottish champions owned in the Premier League side to their minority shareholder Alisher Usmanov.
By Duncan Mackay
February 22 – West Ham United are not prepared to share the Olympic Stadium with another football or rugby club and will only move there if they are confident that the atmosphere will be good, their co-chairman David Sullivan has warned.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 22 – German football legend Franz Beckenbauer says players should do more handshaking in order to improve sportsmanship.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 16 – Steve Lawrence (pictured), the architect who who wrote the original masterplan for the London Olympics and Paralympics, has identified himself as the mystery figure behind the anonymous complaint to the European Union Commission which scuppered West Ham United’s hopes of moving to the Olympic Stadium after the Games.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 8 – Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp (pictured), who has spent the last two weeks in the glare of publicity for alleged tax evasion, was today cleared of all charges.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 8 – Manchester United have signed a three-year sponsorship agreement with Bulgarian telecommunications company Globul, offering the club’s fans in the eastern European country mobile phone access to exclusive news and interviews.
By David Gold
February 7 – Liverpool have extended a partnership with their official travel partner Thomas Cook Sport until 2015, as the club look to attract more overseas fans to Anfield.
By David Gold
February 6 – West Ham vice chair Karren Brady (pictured) has said the club is still committed to a move to the Olympic Stadium.