Like so many Premier League fans, Brian Quinn found himself hunched over more than one screen last weekend as the world’s most commercially successful domestic football tournament resumed.

More than 550 jobs are at stake in a bitter legal dispute over alleged trespass at the Cork offices from which the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers are now operating following restructuring of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings media group.

QPR have decided to appeal to the Football Association against the red card Joey Barton received against Norwich at Loftus Road.

Liverpool owner John W Henry admits he knew “virtually nothing” about the club or English football before his Fenway Sports Group (FSG) completed their takeover at Anfield a year ago.

Blackburn’s Indian owners are confident caretaker boss Steve Kean has the drive to match their own lofty ambitions for the club.

LIVERPOOL co-owner Tom Werner has revived talk of a controversial 39th Premier League game to be played overseas.

SETANTA Sports founder Michael O’Rourke believes the company will survive its current difficulties but said there are no guarantees.

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell claims he would not be doing his job if he did not examine the possibility of joining a revamped Premier League.

FURIOUS Mansion chief negotiator David Kinsman has accused Manchester United of “double-dealing” after the Red Devils pulled the plug on a world record sponsorship deal.

CHELSEA chief executive Peter Kenyon wants football’s governing bodies to meet with clubs and thrash out a solution to the perennial club versus country debate.

The country’s top football agents have met Premier League officials to form a self-regulatory group.