Last month, the 2016/2017 Premier League payments were revealed. Champions Chelsea earned over £150m (€170m) between prize money and TV broadcast revenue. But, that wasn’t the most alarming thing.

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has dismissed the idea of Champions League knockout matches being played on weekends.

Howard Webb believes Jose Mourinho should be sanctioned by the Football Association for mind games over the appointment of Anthony Taylor as the referee for Manchester United's draw at Liverpool.

The Premier League revealed the French national anthem will be played before all matches this weekend in remembrance for those affected by the terror attacks on Paris.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore does not like it when people label the English top flight the ‘best league in the world’. It is possibly the richest and most sought-after global football brand, but being the best is not something Scudamore has ever claimed. And judging by the recent form of ‘his’ clubs in the Champions League, he has never been more right.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore says he would rather Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger ignored each other than shared a “meaningless” handshake, as the row between the two managers threatens to dominate the start of the season.

Jose Mourinho has confidence in the strength of his Chelsea squad ahead of the season curtain-raiser against Arsenal at Wembley tomorrow.

Jose Mourinho has played down his personal record against Arsene Wenger ahead of the Community Shield fixture against Arsenal at Wembley on Sunday.

FIFA’s general secretary Jerome Valcke claimed Uefa and most of the confederations want December 23 as the date for the Qatar 2022 World Cup final — but no decision has been made and no compensation will be paid.

Premier League football, having just announced its biggest ever television rights deal, is, according to journalists, analysts and even business experts, about to defy both science and economics – with a bubble that refuses to burst. 

Outside the Hawthorns stands a statue to The Bomber. Not the Bavarian one, he of the 72 goals in the 68 internationals, but the Black Country one, whose statistics were pretty impressive too.

Richard Scudamore has defended the Premier League as a British institution in the wake of selling domestic television rights for a staggering £5.136bn across just three years.

The Premier League’s new TV deal will net more than €150,000 a minute — a staggering 70% increase in the value of its British television rights for the 2016-19 seasons, with Sky and BT Sports paying a combined £5.136 billion (€6.92 billion) to show games. 

“Premier League clubs deliver competitive and compelling football to fans in stadiums and on television, driving interest levels to new heights."

The BBC’s Match of the Day has retained the rights to Premier League highlights for three more years after a successful bid of £204m.

The Ched Evans controversy in Britain has provided plenty of talking points in the last couple of weeks.

FIFA’s two ethics chiefs will hold talks in the next few days after the investigation into World Cup bidding descended into a shambles.

FIFA has announced that two options have emerged as the most likely dates for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar – and both are in the winter.

Malky Mackay should face a season-long ban from football for the offensive texts he sent to a former colleague at Cardiff, according to ex-Football Association chairman Lord Triesman.

Luis Suarez was "an accident waiting to happen" and the "time had come" for him to leave Liverpool this summer, according to Richard Scudamore.

Luis Suarez was “an accident waiting to happen” and the “time had come” for him to leave Liverpool this summer, according to Richard Scudamore.

Referees in Premier League matches next season will use the vanishing spray that came to prominence in the recent World Cup in Brazil, it was announced yesterday.

Referees in Premier League matches next season will use the vanishing spray that came to prominence in the recent World Cup in Brazil, it has been announced.

IN the early 1980s, the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood wrote about why men fear women — they fear that women may laugh at them — and why women fear men — they fear that men may kill them. And Germaine Greer famously wrote how few women have little idea of the extent many men hate them. Nah, you might think. Surely not.

It has been a rough couple of weeks with the pollen. It was the hay fever, we now know, that drove John Inverdale to his ‘sexist lapse’ at last year’s Wimbledon.

Senior positions in British football remain a “bastion of white male domination”, the head of the game’s anti-discrimination group Kick It Out has warned.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho cannot comprehend why some Manchester United supporters blame Alex Ferguson for the club’s struggles this season.

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Sky Sports managing director Barney Francis insists the satellite broadcaster has moved on from the loss of Champions League TV rights to BT Sport and will fight tooth and nail to retain the Premier League.

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar looks set to be played in November after Fifa’s secretary general stated that the tournament “will not be in June or July”.

Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore admits he cannot rule out the idea that match-fixing may have taken place over the course of the history of the league and revealed he would like to see a blanket ban on players betting on football markets.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter will make a personal visit to 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar to express concerns over the treatment of migrant workers.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has announced the first step in a process which could lead to the Qatar 2022 World Cup moving to the winter – but stressed there is no threat to the Middle East country losing the tournament.

If it is the moment that Chelsea have been waiting six years for, it is also one that Jose Mourinho will try to be prepared for.

The vice-president of FIFA, Jim Boyce, has told the Premier League it would have more than enough time to prepare for a winter World Cup in Qatar.

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has warned a summer World Cup in Qatar would be more than inconvenient – it would be dangerous too.

At long last, a visionary has arrived to remedy the glaring hole in our lives. Grant Best of BT Sport — the people who are taking on Sky Sports — is convinced we don’t see enough of the anonymous drones who play in the Premier League.

Players’ chief Gordon Taylor will argue for rules on retrospective action to be widened to allow both diving and dangerous tackles to be dealt with at English footballer’s stakeholders’ annual meeting this summer.

Top-flight clubs will face a points deduction if they breach new spending controls agreed by the narrowest majority at a Premier League chairmen’s meeting.

Top-flight clubs will face a points deduction if they breach new spending controls agreed today, Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore has confirmed.

Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham have put into writing their demand for UEFA’s full financial fair play rules to be brought in to the Premier League.

Mark Clattenburg will be back in action tonight after Chelsea, the Premier League and the Professional Game Match Officials Limited issued a joint statement admitting regrets over the way his recent ordeal was handled and calling for a line to be drawn under the affair.

Football’s mega-rich Premier League passed the 250 millionth fan mark last night — 20 years after its launch.

The behaviour of players in the Premier League is already improving, according to chief executive Richard Scudamore.