Black 'Blacky' Armband : 1850-2010

Premier League clubs will next weekend join forces and don black armbands in memory of Black Armband. In an official statement Premier League ideas man Richard Scudamore said "The loss of Black Armband has been a massive shock to the whole footballing community.

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As the curtains drew in on an eventful week in football, there was only one real talking point. How did Clarke Carlisle win countdown? In all seriousness the only big talking point is how did Pompey end up in administration?

I must do something I rarely ever do, agree with Richard Scudamore, the only way a well established and reasonably successful Premier League club can end up in administration is ‘rank bad management'.

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If you want to better understand the Premier League's position on digital rights, go ahead and read Premier League Chief Executive Richard Scudamore's letter that was published in The Guardian last week on the topic of The Digital Economy Bill. The proposed legislation would kick accused, not convicted, file sharers off the Internet in the United Kingdom.

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Premier League reforms are in the wind but what will they mean for Newcastle United? The Premier League has been undertaking a 'strategic review' since November 2008 and plans to have new proposals in place by December 2010. Bolton chairman Phil Gartside has put forward plans that would lead to a two-tier Premier League of between [. Click to continue reading...

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'.

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Just yesterday Richard Scudamore, head of the Prem, sat himself in front of a bevy of reporters, not at all influenced by the fact that he was on a block-building mission in Beijing, and touted the Chinese Super League as the new blossoming world power - the one which may come to rival Europe's heavyweights [. Click to continue reading...

Bolton Chairman Phil Gartside has called for a two-tier Premier League with no relegation to the Football League.

This controversial idea could offer hope for some of the clubs languishing in the Championship but cut adrift those clubs in League 1 and 2.

It seems that this will make the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

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Times they are a changing in the Premier League

Six weeks ago the English press were running around like little school girls gushing over the brilliance of our national league. Three teams representing the Premiership had reached the last four of the European Cup two years on the bounce.

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Non-leaguers hit back at claims that they are more expensive than Bolton Manchester United breakaway club FC United have hit out at Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore over his suggestion that it is cheaper to watch Bolton play in the top-flight than to watch the non-league outfit. Scudamore reportedly told a radio show: "They are charging [. Click to continue reading...

It's the perennial discussion, still going on: Can "competitive balance" be enforced by government decree? Andy Burnham, British Culture Secretary, thinks it can. Andy Burnham, the Culture Secretary, is calling for Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool to share their winnings in Europe with other Premier League teams. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to the millions being shelled out by Premiership teams like Manchester City, Tottenham and the big four this season, it is easy to forget that English football is currently seized by its very own credit crunch. Today Luton Town dropped out of the football league for the first time in 89 years in football's equivalent to the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year.

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There#8217;s a PR battle of the heavyweight underway between FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Premier League chief exec Richard Scudamore. It#8217;s all based in Blatter#8217;s infamous (but probably never going to happen) 6+5 proposal. Sepp wants it introduced, Scudamore definitely does not, basically because 6+5=the end of the Premier League as we know it. Click to continue reading...

So we have another Premier League footballer in trouble with the law. Chelsea defender Ashley Cole early Thursday morning decided after a night out doing charity work, that he would decide to have a little too much booze and then get into a one sided yelling match with the police. The police won when they [. Click to continue reading...

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore rejected the notion of a salary cap, suggested by UEFA. "If you say 60% or 50% can be capped on wages, what it really does is absolutely lock in the natural order," he told BBC Radio Five's Sportsweek programme yesterday. "It would help the big clubs far more than the [. Click to continue reading...

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore rejected the notion of a salary cap, suggested by UEFA. "If you say 60% or 50% can be capped on wages, what it really does is absolutely lock in the natural order," he told BBC Radio Five's Sportsweek programme yesterday. "It would help the big clubs far more than the [. Click to continue reading...

You would think Rafa Benitez would have already learned his lesson. Instead Rafa is left to choke on more words, and a title dream lost. Before Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Manchester City, Rafa reacted to Arsene Wenger's comments that Manchester United were untouchable. "I can only talk of my team but I don't think they are [. Click to continue reading...

You would think Rafa Benitez would have already learned his lesson. Instead Rafa is left to choke on more words, and a title dream lost. Before Liverpool's 1-1 draw with Manchester City, Rafa reacted to Arsene Wenger's comments that Manchester United were untouchable. "I can only talk of my team but I don't think they are [. Click to continue reading...