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WSL agrees ‘significant’ new broadcast deal with Sky Sports and BBC

WSL agrees ‘significant’ new broadcast deal with Sky Sports and BBC

The Women’s Super League (WSL) has agreed what it calls “the most significant broadcast partnership ever for women’s football” in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The new five-year deal begins from the 2025-26 season and the Women’s Professional Leagues Limited (WPLL) says it will enable supporters to watch every game from the top league of...

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Manchester United’s Labour conference pitch to regenerate land around ‘placeholder’ Old Trafford

Manchester United’s Labour conference pitch to regenerate land around ‘placeholder’ Old Trafford

The exhibition hall at the Labour Party’s annual conference is a curious collection of stands. There have been blue-chip giants pitched up next to charities inside Liverpool’s vast ACC complex this week, utility companies placed alongside unions. Each has come with the same motivations as every other year: to lobby and find political friends, to...

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Alisher Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri court case adds to Everton takeover complications

Alisher Usmanov and Farhad Moshiri court case adds to Everton takeover complications

Former Everton sponsor Alisher Usmanov has taken legal action against a company owned by the club’s owner Farhad Moshiri, creating a complicating factor in Everton’s already difficult takeover process. Usmanov, 70, is the founder of the global conglomerate USM, whose companies provided sponsorship to Everton worth some £12m each year, as well as purchasing a...

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Explained: What Champions League games will be on Amazon Prime and who will be pundits?

Explained: What Champions League games will be on Amazon Prime and who will be pundits?

Amazon Prime has unveiled its Champions League coverage plans as the 2024-25 edition of Europe’s elite club competition draws closer. The streaming platform, which already has the rights to broadcast Champions League football in Italy and Germany, signed a three-year deal with UEFA, European football’s governing body, in July 2022 to also broadcast one game...

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How to watch the Premier League wherever you are in the U.S, UK and Canada

How to watch the Premier League wherever you are in the U.S, UK and Canada

This epic summer of sport continues with the return of the Premier League as Manchester United host Fulham at Old Trafford on Friday to get the new campaign under way. The wait will soon be over and the most-watched league in the world will be back. Will Manchester City successfully defend their title again? Will...