Tag: The first league

Wigan are starting the 2023-24 season on -8 points after deducting an additional penalty

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Wigan Athletic will start the 2023-24 League One season eight points short after the points suspension has been deducted by the English Football League (EFL) after the club failed to deposit funds to cover its pay bill. The English Premier League deducted four points last week after the club failed to pay players’ salaries for the fifth time, in addition to previous violations of league regulations. He deducted three points from their total this season and has now enacted another four-point penalty that has been suspended. The league said in…

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The Premier League is sharing more income with Premier League clubs with ‘New Deal for Football’ – Steve Parish

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Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish has revealed that the “New Deal for Football” will see the Premier League sharing more than 20 per cent of its central income. The Premier League earns nearly £3.5 billion annually from its media rights and commercial deals, and although the exact number is difficult to pin down, it shares about £500 million, or 15 percent, with the English Football League, and several community programmes. and organizations such as the Professional Footballers’ Association. While no other league hands out as much to third parties, the…

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DAZN is in a race to get the EFL TV rights, and it could cancel the 3 p.m. blackout

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DAZN is bidding to become the league’s broadcast partner from 2024-25 in a radical proposal that would end the Saturday 3pm blackout for UK viewers. The international broadcast platform wants to secure the rights to show all matches across Championship, League One, League Two, including matches that were not traditionally available to local audiences on Saturday afternoons. This would require the FA to scrap the current broadcast model which only allows 138 matches per season to be shown live, thus putting pressure on the Football Association to get rid of…

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Concerns are growing at Morecambe as players and staff face back wage payments for March

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Fears are growing in Morecambe that the relegation-threatened League One team will become the next English club to enter administration after informing players and staff that their March salaries would be delayed. In an email sent on Monday, Jason Whittingham, the sole director of the club’s majority owner Bond Group Investments, warned staff they would not be paid on time but assured them the delay would be short. “Due to the timing of the potential takeover of the club, Bond Group Investments has experienced delays in the funds coming in,”…

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Soccer AM is set to cancel Sky Sports at the end of the season

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Soccer AM is set to be canceled by Sky after more than 30 years of programming in the UK. The show, which first aired in 1995, has ten episodes remaining before its proposed final episode on May 27 – the final Saturday of the Premier League season. Saturday Social, a new program aimed at young Sky Sports viewers, is set to replace the historic football comedy talk show. A Sky spokesperson said: “Soccer AM has played an important role in our coverage of football over the past three decades, and…

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The PFA warns non-league players about upcoming contract changes

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The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) has warned its members about changes to the standard contract for non-league players that will reduce money for players with long-term injuries and make it easier for clubs to terminate their contracts. Under the new contract, which comes into force on 1 July, injured players in the National League will only be paid full wages for 12 weeks, before moving to ‘club sick pay’ of £99.35 per week for up to 28 weeks. For players below the fifth level of English football, full salary will…

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Notts County, a title charge and a giant two-way struggle with Wrexham

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A huge clearing can be found along Meadow Lane, the road that gives the Notts County home its name, a life-size statue of two men sitting on a bench. Drive past with only a brief look in that direction and two old friends can be out of breath. Maybe waiting for the bus, maybe catching up. Instead, the statue pays tribute to Notts’ greatest management team of Jimmy Sirrel and Jack Wheeler. Together, the duo led the world’s oldest major club to the First Division in 1981 for the first…

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Rick Parry, chairman of the Football Association, wants the UK government to support plans for a new system to redistribute wealth in the Premier League.

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Premier League chairman Rick Parry has called on the government to help the professional game fix a “broken system” by backing his plan to radically change how Premier League wealth is redistributed. Parry, who was the Premier League’s first chief executive in 1992, was speaking ahead of the long-awaited publication of the UK government’s white paper on football, which was postponed earlier this month due to a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but from Scheduled for release now. Thursday. The white papers are official plans for legislation and this…

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New Charlton takeover talks despite Charlie Methven’s legal threat

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Charlton Athletic owner Thomas Sandgaard is in talks with US businessman Mark Spiegel over a potential sale, which could lead to legal action against the Dane by a rival group he had already agreed a deal with. Sandgaard, the Danish businessman based in the US, was on the verge of selling 90 per cent of the League One club to a consortium led by former Sunderland manager Charlie Methven for £8.5m. But Sandgaard is now in talks with Spiegel, co-founder of an Atlanta-based recycling company, who is willing to pay…

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The case of a soccer player who was arrested for multiple child sex offenses has been referred to CPS

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The professional footballer who was arrested in July 2021 on suspicion of multiple child sex offences, has referred his case to the Crown Prosecution Service. CPS will now determine whether or not to file a criminal case against the player. A player cannot be named until they have been charged. There is no timeline for any decision. The player was suspended by his club shortly after his arrest and has since been released on bail. A CPS spokesperson said: “We received an evidence file from Greater Manchester Police on 31…

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