Tottenham Hotspur set for new front-of-shirt sponsor despite AIA deal November 4, 2025 Tottenham Hotspur is ending its front-of-shirt sponsorship deal with insurance giant AIA Group Limited at the end of next season. The Hong Kong–based multinational firm has featured on the front of the north London club’s home shirts for a decade and will continue to do so until the conclusion of the 2026-2027 season. But then [...]
Premier League exec steps down to lead Major League Soccer challenger competition November 3, 2025 The Premier League is set to lose one of its top staff, chief football officer Tony Scholes, at the end of the season after he agreed to head up a challenger to Major League Soccer in the US. Scholes is to be president of a new top-tier competition to be launched in 2028 by the [...]
Single Premier League Boxing Day fixture huge opportunity for TV November 2, 2025 Boxing Day football has long been woven into the nation’s cultural fabric, with families traditionally watching multiple matches throughout the day. It is intertwined into Britain’s festive rhythm, as familiar as the Boxing Day sales. But that tradition could change if the Premier League proceeds with plans to stage just one Boxing Day fixture. By [...]
Exclusive: Budweiser to challenge Heineken for Uefa Champions League deal October 29, 2025 Uefa’s long-standing Champions League beer partners, Heineken, are facing competition from Budweiser for the contract to be the competition’s official suppliers from 2027 onwards. City AM has learned that Budweiser’s parent company, AB InBev, are willing to pay Uefa €200m per season, a significant increase on the €120m-a-year they are currently getting from Heineken. Budweiser [...]
Eastern Airways: UK regional airline suspends operations October 28, 2025 Eastern Airways has cancelled all of its flights, with the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announcing that it has suspended operations. Travellers booked onto upcoming flights have been warned not to go to the airport, with the CAA urging passengers to “make their own alternative travel arrangements via other airlines, rail or coach operators”. The airline [...]
West Ham on hook for £5m despite Potter’s Swede pick-me-up October 22, 2025 West Ham will not receive any financial benefit from Sweden’s surprise appointment of Graham Potter, who is still set to bank around £5m in compensation after being sacked by the struggling Hammers last month. Most Premier League clubs only pay compensation – in the form of monthly salary payments – to sacked managers until they [...]
Manchester United chiefs issue call to government for support October 17, 2025 Manchester United chiefs have called on the government to support construction in the region as the club looks to build a new stadium. Sir Jim Ratcliffe appointed Lord Norman Foster to design a new stadium for Manchester United as they look to move on from a crumbling Old Trafford. It is set to seat 100,000 [...]
Here’s what the NFL can teach football about global expansion October 16, 2025 It had taken me 18 years and 40 missed opportunities in London before I got round to seeing my first NFL game in the flesh on Sunday: an attritional contest edged by the Denver Broncos at a packed Tottenham Hotspur Stadium that looked for all intents and purposes as though it had been flown from [...]
Liverpool owners target ‘much more’ success after 15 years at helm October 15, 2025 Liverpool’s owners, Fenway Sports Group, have insisted their “work isn’t done” as they mark 15 years since their takeover of the current Premier League champions. The multi-sport group, whose portfolio also includes the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball, has overseen a major upturn in the club’s fortunes both on and off the field [...]
‘Stick to the rules’: Brighton owner Bloom slams clubs who fail PSR October 14, 2025 Brighton and Hove Albion owner Tony Bloom says he has little sympathy for rival Premier League clubs such as Everton and Nottingham Forest who have been punished for breaching profitability and sustainability rules (PSR). Top-flight teams are set to vote next month on whether to replace PSR with a new system of financial controls based [...]