The Villa fans started a chant, “Premier League, corrupt as f---,” and it drew applause from the away section. When Newcastle supporters started the chant, they were given a round of applause by Villa fans. In the end, everyone inside Villa Park started chanting it together.

The Premier League had a new redistribution deal rejected by the English Football League (EFL) shortly before the bill that ushered in a regulator was passed.

Birmingham City have plotted a move for one of Liverpool’s Champions League winners, it has been claimed. The Blues, who are part owned by Tom Wagner and NFL legend Tom Brady, are hoping to claim back-to-back promotions after finishing top of League One last term.

The Premier League have seen their latest attempt to tweak how football’s wealth is distributed hit a roadblock. According to The Athletic, the English Football League (EFL) rejected a redistribution proposal just weeks before a landmark bill introducing an independent football regulator was passed.

This summer marked the 40th anniversary of English football’s nadir. At a time of rampant hooliganism, fatal stadium tragedies and a ban from all European competition, an editorial in The Sunday Times infamously derided football as “a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people.”

English football is back, my friends, and not a moment too soon. Oh sure, the new Premier League season doesn’t start for another eight days, but today is the start of the 2016-17 season in the ...

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New season, new rules! The Premier League 2025/26 brings big changes: goalkeepers face an 8-second rule, VAR calls announced in stadiums, and only captains can speak to referees