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.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 2 – Tottenham Hotspur executive director Charlie Wijeratna, hired little more than a year ago from London 2012 with a brief to bring in fresh sponsorship, has left the club.
By David Gold
February 1 – Chelsea have reduced their annual losses to £67.7 million (€80 million/$106 million) for the year ending June 30, 2011, largely thanks to record turnover of £222 million (€266 million/$357 million).
By Andrew Warshaw
February 1 – Tottenham Hotspur, whose battle to move into the Olympic Stadium was abandoned last year following a bitter wrangle, have been urged by London Mayor Boris Johnson (pictured) to press ahead with a new ground in their own back yard after the parties struck a fresh £27 million ($43 million/€33 million) funding agreement.
By David Gold
January 31 – There have been 16 expressions of interest from parties interested in moving to the Olympic Stadium after London 2012, including one from West Ham United, insideworldfootball understands.
By David Gold
January 25 – Queens Park Rangers chairman Tony Fernandes (pictured) and his Chelsea counterpart Bruce Buck have issued a joint statement calling on supporters to make their FA Cup fourth round tie on Saturday (January 28) “a celebration of football”, following the racism allegations made against John Terry when the teams last met.
By Andrew Warshaw
January 23 – Harry Redknapp (pictured), the most successful English club manager of recent years and the man favoured to succeed Fabio Capello as England boss after Euro 2012, appeared in court today to face accusations of tax evasion.