BREAKING NEWS: Tottenham REVERSE decision to use Government cash to pay for furloughed non-playing staff… Club will now pay ALL staff’s wages themselves after an outcry from supporters Tottenham had controversially placed their non-playing staff on furlough However, just like Liverpool, they have now reversed their initial decision The Premier League side will now pay … Read more
‘The Premier League needs to BAN clubs from buying anyone if they have furloughed staff or cut players’ wages’: Gary Neville says it’s ludicrous for clubs to be pleading poverty and then splashing out on transfer targets Seven Premier League sides have already cut expenditure at their clubs Tottenham, Newcastle, Norwich, Bournemouth and Sheffield United … Read more
Peter Bonetti knew that not all cats have nine lives so he fought tooth and claw for the one God gave him. That long battle with Alzheimers ended this Easter Sunday, at 78, and football is in mourning for a goalkeeper so acrobatic and gravity-defying that Chelsea did indeed call him The Cat. His final … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: Leeds United legend and 1966 World Cup winner Norman Hunter, 76, is admitted to hospital after testing positive for coronavirus Norman Hunter has tested positive for coronavirus and is now in hospital Hunter, 77, was part of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup Leeds United confirmed the news via a … Read more
The House Of Cards atop English football could collapse as financial lifeboats threaten to desert Premier League clubs during the coronavirus pandemic. That is the stark warning from experts, one of whom compared the crisis to the financial crash, when the US housing market sleepwalked into ruin because it was considered too secure to fail. … Read more
The nuclear option, Championship club owners are calling it. In essence, it is evidence of their increasing despair over the impasse around player wages. Owners and chief executives in the second tier of English football have had conversations about a process known as group administration, the last desperate act to avoid ruin, if no common … Read more
John W. Henry. Joe Lewis. Mike Ashley. Three billionaire owners of Premier League football clubs. Yet, on the evidence of the past week, three men who would call by a foodbank to top up their weekly shop. At least in the case of Henry he has decided against helping himself, even if he was chased … Read more
Liverpool‘s position became indefensible before they reversed their decision but that is of little comfort to clubs in the Premier League‘s lower reaches, who now know that they furlough staff at their peril. Anfield has contributed substantially to that concept being a toxic term. ‘It’s not helpful for us,’ said one club executive, also observing … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more
Gary Neville has taken aim at the Premier League and their handling of the coronavirus crisis, describing it as ‘terrible’. In a series of tweets on Sunday, the former England and Manchester United defender turned television pundit, listed five calamitous decisions the Premier League has made in recent weeks. Premier League executives met with the … Read more
Having given up £1million of his salary, England manager Gareth Southgate must have been rather surprised to end up as the villain on Sunday. So too Eddie Howe and Graham Potter, managers of Bournemouth and Brighton, who have also elected to go short. This is how warped the rhetoric around coronavirus has become. This is … Read more
‘Don’t just pick on footballers’: Gary Lineker insists he has spoken to players ‘desperate’ to help contribute to coronavirus crisis amid criticism Top-flight footballers are facing criticism over their lack of action amid the crisis Health secretary Matt Hancock took a dig at players over not taking pay cuts Former striker Gary Lineker has hit … Read more
Liverpool Football Club is continuing to deal with a range of challenges caused by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and would like to update supporters on the progress that has been made to date. While our priority from the outset has been to focus primarily on the health and wellbeing of our players, staff, … Read more