Premiership

9053_LgeLad01

Football Update: Fantasy, Lehmann and Game 39

As the country dangles on the brink of European Championship fever we ride that wave of euphoria in bringing you some updates on football pieces we featured a few months ago. Our first priority here must be to praise the winner of this season’s Londonist …

8585_FootTV01

Football: Say Howdy to the EFL!

A Premiership title decided well before the final day and an FA Cup final between Portsmouth and Cardiff City are not likely to enchant English football’s television paymasters around the world. Many football fans are delighted at Wembley’s unexpected May guests, but a predictable league …

8174_Awasa02

Premiership Game 39: Fools If We Think It’s Over

You can tell the vintage of an Ethiopian male by the team he favors… Granddads like Liverpool, dads ManU, and young men Arsenal. The emerging generation seems to be leaning toward Chelsea. Why all British? The BBC, of course. Next to Coke and Pepsi, Arsenal …

8042_WallBall01

Premiership Abroad: View From The USA

As the repercussions continue around the Premiership’s shock announcement that it was going to take its brand of football around the world in a weekend, its chief executive Richard Scudamore is determined that the plan should survive in some way, shape or form. As we …

8026_PollyFoot02

Football: Stand Down The Fulham Globetrotters

Thursday 7th February, 2008 will forever be the day that English club football did not so much cross the line as surge over it like the tape had just gone up at the start of the Grand National. The smaller Premiership clubs raced down the …