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...

Imagine life without one of the following: Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal or Chelsea. The English FA says it could happen. The FA is guessing that current debt for all of English football is £3bn, with the top four clubs accounting for a third of that. But there's no [...] Click to continue reading...

This week, some of the top decision makers in world football met at the Leaders In Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London to discuss a host of topics. Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, spoke about his vision for making the Premier League into a global league. When interviewed about the topic, Scudamore [. Click to continue reading...

PREMIER League chief Richard Scudamore has today announced that he plans to make the Premier League sack race an Olympic event by 2012. Scudamore is currently lobbying IOC members to add the Premier League sack race to the bloated list of pointless Olympic events that nobody really gives two tiny squirts of piss about. Click to continue reading...

Despite all the rumours of human rights abuse, Thaksin Shinawatra passed the Premier League club owner "fit and proper test". Why? Because he had money. Lots and lots of money. But now Shinawatra is in all sorts of trouble. The Thailand Supreme Court has issued a warrant for his arrest, after he failed to appear in [. Click to continue reading...

Well, it's almost that time again. The Community Shield has gone and been futile as only it can be, the networks are booming with knee-knocking, bladder-bursting promos featuring men screaming like 19th century parsons about Passion, Glory and Honour, the English leftwing cranks are crying hell and damnation at the prospect of another eight-month orgy of misspent wealth, and the technocrats Click to continue reading...

If you thought the Premier League's Game 39 was going to just go away and die quietly, you were wrong. It's back. It's wearing a false moustache and glasses, but it's back. The latest plan to squeeze more money out of the Premier League is to take a "winter break" (air quotes because it means the [.. Click to continue reading...

RICHARD ‘Baldrick' Scudamore, the contumacious Premier League chief executive behind the much-criticised proposal for an ‘international round' of matches, has drafted a revised plan designed to sidestep opposition from FIFA and the Football Association. Scudamore was forced to bin his original plans after Sepp Blatter indicated such a venture would undermine England's 2018 World Cup bid, [. Click to continue reading...

RADOVAN Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader extradited to The Hague on 11 charges of war crimes, has sensationally claimed that Premier League chief Richard Scudamore made him do it. Karadzic is accused of giving orders for the genocide of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, but the Bosnian Serb maintains he was merely acting as a [. Click to continue reading...

PREMIER League chief executive Richard Scudamore has reacted angrily to suggestions that he was the mysterious Witness E in the Max Mosley nothing-to-do-with-Nazi's sex orgy trial. F1 boss Mr Mosley was accused earlier this year of participating in a Nazi sex orgy with five prostitutes by the ever-reliable News of the World. Click to continue reading...

So it's here, the day the gets us all excited and begins the countdown to the new season starting on August 16th, a mere 61 days away. Everyone eagerly checks the fixtures, scanning to see when they've got that away trip to Old Trafford, Anfield, The Emirates and Stamford Bridge, who'll they'll be playing near their [. Click to continue reading...

Canada and US play tomorrow for an Olympic qualifying spot.Because Canada is so limited in real world competitions like the World Cup i am desperate to see them get any experience possible.So i hope we can put some lead in our attack and defense and beat the US.
If we leave it up to Soccer Canada our squads will play 3 games a year two of which will be back to back affairs against St. Click to continue reading...

Think the Premier League has shelved plans for Game 39? Think again. We look inside a meeting between the PL chief executive and look at his disregard for the concerns of present supporters. Click to continue reading...

Next week, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore will fly to Zurich to meet with FIFA president Sepp Blatter. After outlining his plans to FIFA, Scudamore will then fly to meet with the different confederations to share his plan as well as meeting with the potential host cities. Depending on next week's developments, we may know [. Click to continue reading...