October 8 – Arsenal are the latest Premier League club to consider a stadium expansion. The Gunners are exploring ways to increase the Emirates Stadium’s 60,700 capacity to around 70,000, a development that would restore its claim as London’s largest football ground and tweak the noses of their North London rivals, Spurs, and the futuristic Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
October 7 – Ipswich Town, bidding for a bounce back to the Premier League this season, has signed IFX Payments as an Elite Partner.
October 7 – The UK government has appointed David Hogan as the first chair of English football’s new independent regulator.
October 7 – Football stadiums in England are swiftly becoming vibrant multi-use facilities rather than a bi-monthly place of worship by the club’s supporters.
October 6 – Premier League club, Everton FC has unveiled a new Christopher Ward showroom inside their brand-new Hill Dickinson Stadium, making Christopher Ward, the first watch boutique in the world to be housed inside a football ground.
October 3 – Liverpool have opened a new standalone retail store at Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR) in Dubai, the club’s 21st official outlet worldwide and its second in the city as it continues to grow its global retail presence.
October 1 – Matchweek 6 of the Premier League season brought a clear bounce back in attendance, with the average crowd climbing to 97.95% of stadium capacity, up from the 97.07% figure last time out.
October 1 – Nottingham Forest have secured a new global partnership with Dubai-based property developer Object 1, marking a collaboration that links the Premier League club’s international profile with one of the Gulf’s ‘fastest-growing’ real estate brands.
September 30 – Manchester United’s epic vision of a new Old Trafford is already experiencing the kinds of problems that often hit mega stadium projects. The ambitious design unveiled earlier this year by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and world-renowned architect Sir Norman Foster complete with what looked like a vast canopy that critics likened to a circus tent (highly appropriate for the current team’s on-pitch performance) is being quietly redrawn.
September 26 – Premier League West Ham United have sacked yet another manager. Graham Potter has been replaced by Nuno Espírito Santo after a few weeks on the sidelines after getting bounced out of Nottingham Forest.
September 29 – Manchester City have strengthened ties with long-standing travel partner Destination Sport Group, formalising the relationship through a new local partnership agreement.
September 26 – Premier League front runners Liverpool have stepped up their fight against ticket touting, issuing more than 1,100 lifetime bans last season as part of an unprecedented campaign to protect supporters.
September 25 – English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur has announced a new long-term partnership with one of the most famous names in US sports media, Sports Illustrated (SI) and its Sports Illustrated Tickets (SIT) marketplace.
September 26 – Wayne Rooney, player, coach, and now tell-all cult figure, sat down with his former teammate, Rio Ferdinand, and during their conversation on Ferdinand’ podcast, spoke about a subject that English football has long danced around but never properly faced. Booze!
HH Clement Goldstone KC has been confirmed as the new independent Judicial Panel Chair of the English Football Association (FA), stepping into a role that will see him serve an initial three-year term.