A little-known rule proved to be Crystal Palace midfielder Eberechi Eze's undoing on the opening weekend of the Premier League season. His free-kick was ruled out because a Palace player was standing too close to the Chelsea wall.

More Premier League games will be shown on TV than ever before as the league’s new broadcast deal, agreed back in December 2023 and worth £6.7bn, takes effect.

A FRESH start, a new Premier League season and there’s a nice, warm feeling in the pit of every football fan’s stomach, which has nothing to do with the fact it’s hotter than the hinges of hell.

Wound up in 2007 after 128 years, having racked up debts of £2.5million, Scarborough spent a total of 12 seasons in the Football League. They were one of the most successful non-League clubs of the 1970s, reaching four FA Trophy finals between 1973 and 1977 and winning three of them.

The Premier League had a new redistribution deal rejected by the English Football League (EFL) shortly before the bill that ushered in a regulator was passed.

This summer marked the 40th anniversary of English football’s nadir. At a time of rampant hooliganism, fatal stadium tragedies and a ban from all European competition, an editorial in The Sunday Times infamously derided football as “a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people.”

The Premier League have seen their latest attempt to tweak how football’s wealth is distributed hit a roadblock. According to The Athletic, the English Football League (EFL) rejected a redistribution proposal just weeks before a landmark bill introducing an independent football regulator was passed.

English football is back, my friends, and not a moment too soon. Oh sure, the new Premier League season doesn’t start for another eight days, but today is the start of the 2016-17 season in the ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has indicated a desire to see Premier League rules changed around matchday squad list sizes, speaking recently.The Catalan coach has often been vocal about the