May 6 – Manchester United face having to play four times in eight days after their postponed home Premier League match with Liverpool was rearranged for Thursday May 13.
May 5 – In the wake of the European Super League (ESL) protests, Chelsea have become the first of the English breakaway clubs to introduce fan representation at board meetings.
May 4 – The English Premier League has taken action to prevent its clubs threatening to break away again and join any future European Super League.
May 3 – In an unprecedented fallout from the aborted European Super League, the English Premier League was forced to abandon one of its showpiece games of the season, Manchester United versus Liverpool, on Sunday amid mass protests over United’s American owners.
April 30 – The man who turned English top-flight football into the world’s most lucrative league says the six English clubs who signed up for theill-fated European Super League must be sanctioned in some shape or form.
April 29 – Swedish billionaire and Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek has reasserted his commitment to takeover Arsenal from the Kroenke family, declaring he has the funds in place for a bid and wants to bring the club “back to its glory”.
April 28 – The Premier League’s underpinning £1.5 billion domestic TV rights deals could be rolled over for at least another two years if government agrees to waive any competition law concerns.
April 28 – Arsenal’s American owners, the Kroenke family, have been quick to quash any speculation that they will sell the club following reported interest from Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek.
April 28 – The recent launch of the Premier League Hall of Fame with Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry as the first inaugural inductees, has been followed up by a fan vote for the next six legends to be inducted.
April 27 – Spotify owner Daniel Ek has expressed interest in acquiring Arsenal and is reportedly preparing a bid, along with club legends Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira.
April 23 – In the aftermath of the crash of the European Super League (ESL), the owners of Arsenal, Kroenke Sports Enterprises (KSE), have vowed that they will not sell the club and promised to cover the cost of the failed ESL coup.
By Paul Nicholson
April 22 – With the European Super League dead in the water, at least in its latest incarnation, the Premier League has wasted no time in moving on the management of the renegade six clubs, stripping them of key positions on key Premier League committees and working groups.
April 22 – As the repercussions of the collapse of the European Super League begin to take shape, Manchester United’s American co-chairman Joel Glazer has become the latest high-profile figure to “apologise unreservedly” to fans for the club’s involvement in the aborted project, saying United failed to show respect to the “deep-rooted traditions” of the English game.
April 21 – Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward (pictured) has become the first high-profile victim of the European Super League’s dramatic collapse on Tuesday evening. He resigned and will step down from his role at the end of 2021.
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.