February 4 – Two fans of English top-flight club West Ham have been arrested after the latest incident of alleged homophobic gestures in English football, this time directed towards Brighton supporters last weekend.
January 29 – Police are investigating an attack on the home of Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward by a group chanting that he was “going to die”.
January 15 – Manchester United have scrapped plans for a training camp in the Gulf during next month’s English winter break because of heightening tensions in the region.
January 3 – English football may at last have adopted a partial winter break but that hasn’t stopped the traditional festive fixture pile-up from resulting in an unprecedented spate of injuries.
December 13 – The Premier League’s 18-month search for a new chief executive is finally over with Richard Masters, the man who has filled the role on an interim basis, given the job full-time.
December 9 – Police have arrested a man in connection with alleged racial gestures and chanting in Saturday’s Premier League derby between Manchester City and Manchester United.
December 6 – Chelsea have been cleared to re-enter the transfer market in the January window after a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling halved the transfer ban to just one window from the original two-window ban imposed by FIFA.
November 29 – Liverpool begin the first stage of a public consultation exercise today for the proposed expansion of their Anfield stadium to a capacity of more than 61,000.
November 13 – Premier League bosses are to meet English football’s head of referees on Thursday in attempt to sort out ongoing confusion over VAR which many pundits believe is wrecking the spirit of the game.
November 7 – Premier League fans are paying 31% more in England to follow their teams and the league than they were in 2014/15 season despite the cost of tickets having risen by just 1% over the same period.
November 5 – Tottenham Hotspur have appealed against Heung-mon Son’s red card for the tackle which led to Andre Gomes’ horrific broken ankle in Sunday’s Premier League encounter against Everton.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 4 – The inconsistency of VAR in English top-flight football plummeted to new depths of confusion and misinterpretation on Sunday accompanied by one of the most bizarre red card decisions of recent years.
By David Owen
If you were ransacking Manchester United’s illustrious history in search of clues to help the Premier League aristocrats out of their current trough of underperformance, the inter-war years are not the first place you would look. With only two trophies – the Championship and the FA Cup – to aim for, the Red Devils endured a major silverware drought between their second league title in 1911 and their second Cup 37 years later.
October 28 – Southampton have donated their wages from last Friday’s humiliating record 9-0 defeat to Leicester in the English Premier League to charity.
October 4 – Liverpool may have hoped the £1 million paid to Manchester City in 2013 over allegations that the club’s scouts had been spying on the activity of their Manchester counterparts had been brushed away. While the Premier League has shown no investigative interest in the ‘spygate’ row, the FA has asked to see Man City’s evidence surrounding the hacking.