Art de Roché, Eduardo Tansley and more The October international break halted the Premier League at seven matches, but it returns this weekend with a London derby between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United getting us going in Saturday’s early kick-off. To give us a refresher of where domestic football stood when the pause button […]
Matt Slater Welcome to part three in our series this week on The Premier League Owners, the people behind English top-flight clubs. Here, we look at the last surviving homegrown owners and ask how long they can hold on. You can read the other articles in the series here, and there are more to come […]
Adam Crafton Welcome to part two in our series about who owns the Premier League’s 20 clubs. Today, we look at American investors: who are they, why are they so taken with the English top flight and what are their plans? In the conference halls of Fort Lauderdale’s Hard Rock Hotel and Casino last week, […]
Philip Buckingham From the local businessmen propping up boyhood clubs to the Gulf states chasing reflected glories, an eclectic mix has taken over English football’s top 20 clubs. Owners of Premier League teams have spent millions to secure a seat at the top table but no two stories are the same. Some are in for […]
The Athletic UK Staff The Premier League season is 11 games old and we are into the final international break of 2024, so our writers have looked back on the start of 2024-25 and picked a player from each club who has surprised them in this early period — for good or for bad. It […]
The Athletic UK Staff Welcome to a special Black Friday edition of the Transfer DealSheet. Our team of dedicated writers, including David Ornstein, will take you inside the market to explain the deals being worked on for 2025 — across both the winter and summer windows. This includes the players who could arrive and the […]
Oliver Kay Frank Lampard was out with friends recently when they got talking about the good old days, as tends to happen once you reach a certain age. “It was that typical thing,” the former Chelsea and England midfielder, 46, tells The Athletic, “where you’re chatting with mates and they’re moaning that football is more […]
The Athletic UK Staff Premier League managers are judged by how their teams perform on the pitch, but the language they use off it can also play into how they are perceived by supporters, players and the media. From Ange Postecoglou’s many uses of “mate” to the importance Sean Dyche places on “hard yards”, managers […]
Michael Cox It’s that time of the year when the Nobel Prizes are awarded — in physics, chemistry, literature, physiology/medicine, peace and economics. The awards are named after the Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, who was most famous in his own right for inventing dynamite. With that in mind, here, for the first […]