By Andrew Warshaw
November 23 – European champions Chelsea, still reeling from the John Terry racism affair, have been plunged into the spotlight yet again for all the wrong reasons after English football authorities cleared referee Mark Clattenburg of using “inappropriate language” towards the club’s Nigerian midfielder John Obi Mikel.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 21 – Chelsea wasted no time appointing a successor to luckless manager Roberto Di Matteo tonight when former Liverpool boss Rafael Benítez was given the job just a few hours after his predecessor was unceremoniously axed.
By Tom Degun
November 21 – Chelsea have sacked manger Roberto Di Matteo after his side suffered a 3-0 away defeat to Juventus in the UEFA Champions League to put them on the brink of elimination from the competition.
By Tom Degun
November 19 – Premier League giant Manchester United have announced a new four-year sponsorship agreement with prominent Turkish bank Denizbank.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 16 – England’s top-flight clubs have agreed in principle to introduce a model similar to UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules that ensure teams breakeven.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 15 – Lucrative new sponsorship deals allied to a strong start to the season at home and in Europe have contributed to cut the mountain of debt at Manchester United, regarded as the world’s best-supported club.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – One of the two investigations into the Chelsea-Mark Clattenburg case has been dropped through lack of sufficient evidence, the latest twist in a debacle that continues to sour English football.
By David Owen
November 12 – Chelsea’s handling of the Mark Clattenburg controversy has split British football fans clean down the middle.
By Duncan Mackay
November 12 – Alisher Usmanov, a major shareholder in Premier League club Arsenal and Russia’s richest man, today found himself at the centre of controversy after a London-based public relations firm edited his Wikipedia entry to remove information that could cast him in a bad light.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 12 – Former Everton and Wolves footballer Michael Branch, who was once also on loan to Manchester City, has been sentenced to seven years in jail after pleading guilty to drugs offences.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 9 – Fabrice Muamba, the Premier League footballer who suffered a massive cardiac arrest and almost died during a cup game at Tottenham Hotspur in March, made an emotional return to the club’s White Hart Lane stadium for the first time yesterday.
By Emily Goddard
November 6 – Manchester United have announced today, to mark Sir Alex Ferguson’s 26 years in charge of the club, that the statue of Britain’s most successful manager will be revealed at Old Trafford on November 23.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 6 – Mark Clattenburg, the referee at the centre of English football’s latest storm, is being stood down for a second successive round of Premier League action next weekend as an investigation continues into allegations that he used “inappropriate language” towards a Chelsea player during last month’s controversial 3-2 defeat by Manchester United.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 2 – Police have launched an investigation into an apparent racist gesture by a fan who attended Chelsea’s League Cup win over Manchester United on Wednesday (October 31).
By Andrew Warshaw
October 30 – The English Football Association (FA) has launched an official investigation into allegations against FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg for allegedly using bad language towards two Chelsea players in Sunday’s (October 28) explosive Premier League clash with Manchester United.