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It's not often a 6-2 loss is taken to presage a "nation's arrival on the big stage", but that's the reaction today in the Guardian from Anna Kessel on the England's women's team's defeat in the UEFA European Championship final to Germany last night.

Manchester United are to ask their own supporters for ways to help eradicate the "disgusting" chants that are aimed at Arsène Wenger whenever Arsenal visit Old Trafford. Wenger was subjected to a chorus of "sit down you paedophile" during Arsenal's 2-1 defeat on Saturday and United are so embarrassed that the club's chief executive, David Gill, is to raise the matter as a lead item with a panel of influential supporters.

Online gambling company Bwin has secured the internet broadcasting rights for the top two divisions of Spanish football.

The company will screen the Primera and Segunda Divisións of La Liga for the next three years. Bwin has a similar partnership in place with Germany's Bundesliga.

It would be very harsh on Arsenal if Emmanuel Adebayor will not be banned after his behaviour in last Saturday's game which the Gunners lost 4-2 away from home against Manchester City.

Speaking of the celebrations following his goal and the incident with former team-mate Robin Van Persie, FA chief executive Ian Watmore told BBC radio on Sunday:

Our governance team will take a good look at both of the incidents that have been highlighted and will come to the media with the answers early next week.

Leaders of the SFA met this morning to determine the fate of Manager George Burley after Scotland failed to qualify for the World Cup finals. Reports claim Burley will stay on after SFA Chief executive Gordon Smith claimed "this is not the time for change, it is a time to invest faith in the manager and the players.

The Premier League have introduced a home-grown player rule which will come into effect from next season, alongside a limit on squad sizes.
From the 2010/11 campaign, the 20 Premier League clubs have voted to introduce measures which will see all teams required to have eight home-grown players out of a squad of 25.

Chelsea announced today Peter Kenyon will resign his role as chief executive of the club at the end of next month. Following his full-time departure on Oct. 31, Kenyon will remain with the club as a non-executive director for an unspecified amount of time.

"I am extremely proud of my time at Chelsea and of the friendships I have forged with everyone here," Kenyon said.

Since 1990, many things have conspired to rob Liverpool of the league title, but one thing in particular has brought with it extraordinary bad luck. Liverpool fans should rejoice though as it looks like this long-running jinx could be lifted very soon.
I am, of course, referring to Liverpool's sponsorship deal with Carling, which is reportedly set to end in mid-2010.

Liverpool legend Graeme Souness was tough-tackling monster of a player who combined prodigious talent with a ferocity that made him feared by the opposition. It seems that this mean-streak continued into his managerial career, with one of his own players on the receiving end of a deadly Souness special.

In the SMH today: Canberra handed inside running as Meissner pulls out of FFA race for new team
Western Sydney have pulled out the day before the A-League game in Canberra. Make of that what you will, but Buckle-up Ben has hardly given us any encouragment has he. Ever?
Read his comments once more!

The tangled paths that various football clubs weave across each other don't come much stranger than the ongoing saga of Accrington Stanley and Oxford United. When Accrington resigned their place in the Football League in controversial circumstances in 1962, Oxford were elected in their place. When Oxford surprisingly fell through the trap door and into the Blue Square Premier in 2006, Accrington were promoted in their place.

Manchester United chief executive David Gill is set to meet with United fans over the coming weeks at the next fans' forum to discuss the chants that were aimed at Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger last weekend.

The Arsenal manager was stupidly sent off after kicking a water bottle in frustration after their equalising goal was ruled out for being offside.

Back in June CSKA Sofia made the bold announcement that they'd only be going forward with Bulgarian players. "From now on our policy will be to rely only on Bulgarian players," the Sofia-based club's chief executive Ventsislav Zhivkov was quoted as saying in 7 dni sport daily on Tuesday. "Everyone in the club is convinced that [.

How much longer will it be before they take notice and leave Anfield!

Everton chief executive Robert Elstone has insisted that the global financial crisis will not stop the Merseyside club from proceeding with plans to build a new stadium at Kirkby.

According to the Liverpool Daily Post, Elstone said the £78 million in finance required would be derived from sponsorship and naming rights deals, as well as from the sale of current home Goodison Park.

We all knew it would happen and it appears as of next season it will!

The Premier League have introduced a home-grown player rule which will come into effect from next season, alongside a limit on squad sizes.

From the 2010/11 campaign, the 20 Premier League clubs have voted to introduce measures which will see all teams required to have eight home-grown players out of a squad of 25.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has announced the Premier League's plans to instate a home-grown players rule. The rule will be effective beginning next season and throws a whole new wrench into the under 18 transfers debate.

The Premier League's ruling means that Premiership clubs can have no more than 17 non-homegrown players.

The Premier League today gave the illusion that they are working their way towards the "6+5" rule. Unfortunately for those of us who believe the rule would better European football, the Premier League does not seem to be taking the issue of domestic talent seriously. Let us look at the new rule:

The rule that was announced today states that from next year on every team must name a squad of 25 players, of which 8 must be home grown.

Sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe has welcomed the Premier League's new rules on home-grown players and club finances as being good for the long-term health of football.
The 20 clubs have agreed to name 25-man squads with at least eight players 'home-grown' - trained for three years under the age of 21 in England or Wales.

"I have got two season tickets at Old Trafford and sit in the main stand in a normal seat," said Cole. "I am a United fan and just mingle in, paying my money like everybody else – though United's chief executive David Gill usually sees me. I saw him at halftime during the Arsenal game recently and he shouted: 'Get your boots on, we need some goals.

As you probably know, in recent years, Arsenal has dramatically strengthened its ties to the United States. Arsenal hired Ivan Gazidis, who was born in South Africa, grew up in England, but worked as an attorney in the United States before becoming deputy commissioner of MLS, as its chief executive in 2008.

Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has agreed a two-year extension to his current contract with the FAI.
Speculation had been rife that a new deal was near completion, and it is now understood that the Italian has signed a two-year extension to his current deal, which was due at the end of the present campaign.

With Grays Athletics' Chief Executive Mick Woodward standing down from his role at the club after a 10 year stint, which has seen Woodward taking over as manger twice and splitting fan opinion of his general running of the club. A new regime has been promised to take over the reigns of the Essex side, but with Woodward still having an invested interest, more questions than answers remain at the club with the seemingly revolving door.

The Premier League have introduced a home-grown player rule and a limit on squad sizes – both of which will come into effect from next season.

The 20 Premier League clubs have voted to introduce the measures which will see all teams limited to a squad of 25 of which eight players must be ‘home-grown'.

Last Friday, Chelsea Football Club received FIFA's written rationale behind its recent decision to impose a two-window transfer ban on the London club. With the football world now fixated on the issue of tapping-up youngsters, you would've thought that Chelsea would be keeping a low profile when it comes to young recruits.