Carl Anka The Premier League returns today (Friday), bringing thrills, spills, refereeing controversy and, hopefully, some high-quality football. As is tradition, our team of writers at The Athletic have created a comprehensive series of previews for 2024-25. Readers can also enjoy our most recent roundtable, where several of us made our big predictions for the […]
Michael Walker Some will disagree with this geographic categorisation, but for the purpose of this article, ‘the North’ begins at Sheffield. Stoke City are included in the Midlands and Watford counts as being in London, as it’s inside the city’s M25 orbital motorway. Clubs such as Ipswich Town, Portsmouth and Southampton, Reading, Swansea City and […]
Luke Bosher Follow live coverage of Aston Villa vs Arsenal in the Premier League today Premier League teams do not have long to recover between matchweeks 14 and 15 of this Premier League season, with only a few days of rest afforded between rounds as we enter the busiest period of the campaign. The next […]
Gregg Evans Football shirts are not just fashion accessories for diehard supporters — they are seriously big business. With the Premier League’s popularity continuing to grow exponentially, and a global audience eager to buy into the ‘product’, a replica team jersey emblazoned with the name and squad number of a star player is an ideal […]
Luke Bosher The final international break of 2023 is over and that means almost non-stop Premier League action for the next four months. But with injuries before and during the domestic break, numerous clubs are likely anxious about the fitness of crucial players leading up to the 13th matchweek of the 2023-24 season. The weekend’s […]
Jacob Whitehead, David Ornstein and more There was less than two minutes until the scheduled 10.30am start time of the Premier League shareholders’ meeting when Newcastle United co-owner Amanda Staveley rushed into The Churchill Hyatt Regency hotel. This was a gathering which had her club at its heart and her arrival fit that narrative — […]
The Athletic UK Staff As the Premier League gets bigger and bigger, so – it seems – do the stadiums that play host to it. The vast majority of clubs in the top flight have either drawn up plans to expand their grounds to service the overwhelming demand or are poised to open gleaming new […]
The Athletic Staff But as the breakdown shows, both Manchester United and Newcastle United have had the worst luck with injuries this season. This probably explains why both have struggled for form, sitting sixth and seventh in the Premier League table respectively. There is a caveat to this, though, with Manchester United and Newcastle among the […]
The Athletic UK Staff However, Douglas Luiz is Villa’s catalyst in midfield, with five goals and constant dependency and he is the player who binds together Emery’s principles, with and without the ball. He has reached a point where he is among the Premier League’s most complete midfielders. Jacob Tanswell Douglas Luiz is developing into […]
Gregg Evans, Carl Anka and more With almost a third of the Premier League season complete, the table has taken on a largely familiar look. But there has also been a chaotic element to matches in recent weeks, notably Chelsea’s 4-4 draw with Manchester City at the weekend and their incident-packed 4-1 win over Tottenham […]