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Here are tonight's main Premier League news headlines: Hillsborough: police chief 'boasted' of role in smearing fans — The Guardian Anger at Terry's lenient ban led to Kick It Out T-shirt protest — The Guardian Rio Ferdinand leads breakaway by black players — The Daily Mail John Terry to wear anti-racism armband if he captains […]

Will he or won't he? Manchester City midfield maestro David Silva was originally ruled out of Wednesday night's Champions League match against Ajax. But now the Manchester Evening News is reporting that he could indeed return from injury. It's going to be one of those stories where we won't know for sure until the team […]

Premier League's impact on tourism has been written about today in The Guardian, who explain that almost one million soccer supporters traveled to Britain last year. According to the report, more than 60,000 alone came from the United States. It makes for interesting reading as do many of the Premier League-related stories today: 900,000 football […]

Sky Sports were hounding Chelsea FC and its manager Roberto Di Matteo in yesterday's press conference, asking the pointed question whether John Terry would remain Chelsea captain. Not satisfied with the answer, Sky Sports continued to barrage Di Matteo, who remained resilient. Now, talkSPORT exclusively revealed this morning that John Terry will remain as Chelsea […]

Despite contrary reports, Rio Ferdinand will wear a Kick It Out campaign T-shirt in the pre-match warm-up this weekend for Manchester United, says Sir Alex Ferguson during today's United press conference. There were reports that Jason Roberts, Anton Ferdinand and Rio Ferdinand would not wear the shirts in protest, but Rio will wear the shirt. And […]

You have to see this video to believe it. Unbelievably, the Serbian FA has released what appears to be a doctored video showing how wonderfully well behaved their supporters were during the mid-week Serbia against England u21 match. They've carefully crafted a highlight reel, which completely avoids all of the post final whistle monkey chanting […]

After one year of trials and tribulation, we can finally put the John Terry racist allegations story to bed after the Chelsea captain today decided not to appeal against the racial abuse judgement. Here are today's Premier League news headlines: John Terry to miss next 4 matches after deciding not to appeal against racial abuse […]

Ok, let's try this again. After yesterday's farcical postponement of the Poland vs England game due to a waterlogged pitch inside a stadium that had a roof (that wasn't used because of the heavy rain), the rescheduled match will now kick off at 11am ET today (shown live on ESPN3.com for viewers in the United […]

After the disgraceful scenes in Serbia yesterday near the end of the u-21 match between Serbia and England, where England footballers were subjected to racial abuse, as well as being the target of stones being thrown by the crowd plus being confronted violently by Serbian players and coaches, the pressure is on UEFA to take […]

Ugly scenes occurred at the end of England's victory against Serbia in an under-21 match today. As England scored the winning goal with the last kick of the game, England footballers were on the receiving end of missiles thrown by the crowd. Plus, England midfielder Danny Rose inferred that he was a victim of racial […]

England faces its toughest test in its World Cup qualification group tonight when they play away against Poland. Roy Hodgson has made six changes to the side, to bring in more experience into this England team. England starting XI: Joe Hart, Glen Johnson, Phil Jagielka, Joleon Lescott, Ashley Cole, James Milner, Steven Gerrard, Michael Carrick, […]

Today marks the 125th year anniversary of Everton Football Club. One hundred and twenty five years ago today, Everton played Bolton Wanderers in 1887 in a FA Cup first round match that was later ordered to be replayed because the Trotters fielded an ineligible player. Everton's match against Bolton was the club's first professional match. […]

It's the story that won't go away. FOX Business reported late last week that John W. Henry is interested in selling a stake in Fenway Sports Group. FSG's spokespeople deny it. Where there's smoke, there's fire? We'll have to wait and see. Here are the Premier League news headlines tonight: John Henry Reportedly Looking To […]

Liverpool's home since 1892 is going to be redeveloped to expand the Anfield capacity to 60,000. Fenway Sports Group will work with the local Liverpool authorities to knock down several streets around Anfield, to make way for the expansion. Fenway Sports Group will be spending approximately £152 million to expand the ground. Here are the […]