April 16 – The ongoing saga over the aborted Saudi-led takeover of English Premier League club Newcastle United has taken a new twist with reports that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally approached British prime minister Boris Johnson to intervene.
April 13 – Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean international Son Heung-min is the latest English Premier League player to be targeted with racist abuse on social media.
By David Owen
April 7 – Premier League champions-elect Manchester City plunged heavily into the red during the covid-impacted 2019-20 season, posting a king-sized pre-tax loss of £125.1 million.
April 3 – Manchester United have launched two Easter campaigns with compelling social action messages. Through its foundation and its co-operation with FareShare it will distribute 21,300 food hampers to families in Manchester. At the same time the club has continued its anti-discrimination campaign with the roll out of SEE RED.
By David Owen
April 2 – Championship-bound Sheffield United have become only the third Premier League club to date to post a pre-tax profit for the covid-affected 2019-20 financial year.
By David Owen
March 20 – Chinese-owned Wolverhampton Wanderers have joined the general plunge into the red by Premier League clubs for the covid-impacted 2019-20 financial year.
March 15 – Manchester United co-chairman Avram Glazer (pictured) has put 5 million of his club shares up for sale in an offering that is expected to close tomorrow and gross him more than €100 million.
By David Owen
March 9 – Yet another Premier League club has revealed that it haemorrhaged red ink during the covid-battered 2019-20 financial year, with high-flying West Ham posting a pre-tax loss of £65.3 million for the twelve months to end-May.
By David Owen
March 6 – Arsenal, still stuck in mid-table in spite of recent promising signs, have become the fifth Premier League club so far to report pre-tax losses of more than £50 million for the covid-disrupted 2019-20 season.
March 5 – Two seasons ago they won the Champions League. Last season they finally clinched the English league title for the first time in 30 years.
February 25 – It isn’t quite the coffee-ground eco shirt of Forest Green Rovers, but Premier League Tottenham Hotspur have announced a new partnership with a London battery technology company as part of the club’s plans to become carbon neutral.
February 24 – On Merseyside, Everton are flying high. Following their first derby win in 22 years at Anfield against arch rivals Liverpool, the club’s plans for a 52,000-seat stadium were unanimously approved by the local city council.
February 17 – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola fears next month’s international break could reap Covid chaos on elite clubs but says he will not stop his players from travelling abroad.
February 15 – Legions of fans in Myanmar of English Premier League teams have joined forces to join the popular movement protesting the country’s recent military takeover.
By David Owen
February 11 – Accounts have been filed for Chelsea, showing that the West London club appears to have repaid a modest amount of funding to Russian owner Roman Abramovich in 2019-20.