Man City owner Sheikh Mansour will pay travel costs for the 6,000 fans heading to Portugal for the Champions League final against Chelsea as club promises to ‘ease the financial pressure’ on supporters after ‘challenging’ period Man City fans will have travel expensives for Champions League final paid for The club announced an initiative to … Read more
Noise at a football match? This could catch on, you know. Finally, an atmosphere. Finally, a roar. Finally, supporters are back at football. The language, granted, left a fair bit to be desired but we wouldn’t have it any other way. 8000 supporters were allowed into Wembley for Sunday’s Carabao Cup final showdown Eight-thousand spectators … Read more
‘Snakes? The insults were far worse than that!’ West Ham’s Karren Brady lifts lid on fiery meeting of Premier League’s furious 14 to fight European Super League plans as she says ‘trust has been vanquished’ with Big Six Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ attempted to join breakaway European Super League It led to the division’s other … Read more
So we start with a blank sheet of paper, and on it we write: ‘[INSERT NAME] is a football club playing in the English football pyramid, and, as such, can only participate in competitions sanctioned by the English Football Association, UEFA and FIFA. ‘Any agreement or attempt to participate in a competition not recognised by … Read more
In the space of just 48 hours, the JP Morgan-backed European Super League went from being primed to end football as we know it to meeting its own end in a flurry of big-name clubs pulling out. ‘Betrayals’, ‘snakes’, ‘liars’ – this saga has torn the sport apart, killed relationships between executives who were close … Read more
The Big Six rebels have lost tens of millions between them in their disastrous attempts to set up a European Super League, which ended in a humiliating defeat, Sportsmail can reveal The 12 Founding Clubs who announced the venture on Sunday evening purchased equity stakes of around £8million each in the Super League, which its … Read more
The Big Six rebels have lost tens of millions between them in their disastrous attempts to set up a European Super League, which ended in a humiliating defeat, Sportsmail can reveal The 12 Founding Clubs who announced the venture on Sunday evening purchased equity stakes of around £8million each in the Super League, which its … Read more
The agents of Premier League stars have flagged a clause in players’ contracts that states a club must ‘not do anything that stops a player featuring for his country’ as the row over a breakaway European Super League rumbles on. The so-called Big Six of the Premier League – Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester … Read more
New European Super League president Florentino Perez insists the controversial breakaway league is necessary to save clubs in financial terms and is determined it will go ahead – whether Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich continue to refuse to join or not. The Real Madrid president was announced on Sunday in a similar role to his … Read more
You hate our club. Sports writers get that a lot. The accusation that we’re biased against a team. Any team. Doesn’t matter what team really. West Brom, once. I don’t even know why anyone would think I cared about, let alone hated, West Brom, but there it was. And it isn’t true. I love football, … Read more