Plan would have involved the teams finishing fourth through to seventh vying for the right to enter the qualifying rounds of Europe's elite club competition... more
Ah, the desperate whiff of worried PRs. London-listed mining giant Vedanta Resources had a bruising encounter with tribal rights charity Survival International last year... more
Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore believes that Emmanuel Adebayor's controversial behaviour during Manchester City's victory over Arsenal could tarnish the image of English football... more
The Premier League has announced the introduction of a homegrown quota for clubs with the aim of reducing squad sizes and helping the England national team... more
Football: Richard Scudamore does not believe Barclays Premier League rules do - or should - prevent Sir Alex Ferguson from fielding a weakened team against Hull... more
Football: Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has hit back in the row with FIFA president Sepp Blatter by suggesting a limit on foreigners in the English top flight borders on "xenophobic rhetoric" ... more
Football: The Football Association will probe last night’s elbow by West Brom’s Jonas Olsson on Robert Green that could have caused the West Ham keeper serious injury... more
Is the FA Cup in terminal decline? It's hard not to think so, when not only the Big Four but other Premier League sides make it clear that League survival is far more important to them... more
Sepp Blatter is English football's only hope, the national team's match in Trinidad was pointless, and a 23-year-olds Russian beauty's arrival in darts is momentous, says Matthew Norman... more
As the row over the 39th game rumbles on, a senior insider (not Richard Scudamore) wised me up as to why the Premier League chief executive seems willing to go to the wall for a proposal everybody else has damned.... more
It is hard to think of a more Loony Tunes idea than the Premier League's 'international round' and I can't imagine why as shrewd an individual as their chief executive Richard Scudamore has promoted it.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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