Rio Ferdinand leaves TNT Sports studio during Newcastle's Champions League clash with PSG due to 'unforeseen circumstances'... before host Laura Woods assures fans that the Manchester United legend is OK Gary Neville claims Everton's 'trust and faith' in a 'lawless' Premier League has 'gone COMPLETELY' as he speaks about 10-point deduction It took a lot to get over it. It did feel like a death in the family. Arsenal was part of my life since the age of 10; I’d helped deliver 18 trophies for them. Phil Foden SLAMS Man City's first-half display against RB Leipzig, labelling it 'the worst' he's ever...

On the day of his election to Chairmanship of G-14, David Dein stated: "I can see a negotiated settlement between all sides within the next 12 months.".He revealed that himself and Barcelona president Juan Laporta have held talks with Fifa and Uefa. Man City vs RB Leipzig - Champions League: Guardiola's side take the lead thanks to Alvarez, who built on Phil Foden and Erling Haaland's efforts That year I bought the whole of the Football League for the cost of one match now. And I got shit for it at ITV for paying too much,” says Dyke, now in a fashionable “kitchen” in Soho. When the deal began to approach its end the Big Five were keen to make more money still but Dyke did not believe it was possible. “I had a dinner at LWT with the Big Five and I said: ‘We’re not going to get this deal again. The League are better organised. We’re not going to get the same deal, so what are we going to do?’ THE NOTEBOOK: Alexander Isak joins a Newcastle club legend in the history books after scoring at PSG while... In self-publishing lingo, a price promotion is when you discount your book for a short period of time, during which you engage in concentrated marketing activities. There are two main benefits to launching your book with a price promotion:West Ham's stars are joined by their WAGs on a night out in Soho for their Christmas Party - as Karren Brady and David Sullivan drop in too - three days before they fly for Europa League game in Serbia Aaron Ramsdale's dad blasts Mikel Arteta's handling of replacing his 'cup keeper' son with David Raya - and says ex-No 1 has 'lost his smile' Tottenham hit with crushing blow as Rodrigo Bentancur faces TWO MONTHS on the sidelines with ankle ligament damage caused by Matty Cash's lunge... having only recently recovered from a serious knee injury HILARIOUS footage shows former Man United defender Rio Ferdinand being pinned down by a UFC star... just a month before his Las Vegas headliner We’d had a challenging Friday evening and Saturday morning, as Sven had his phone turned off until mid-morning. When reached at last he had advised people at the FA he was going to leave for Chelsea. Sven seemed completely unperturbed by all the fuss. I sort of admired how he could rise above all the chaos — chaos he had caused.

Sven felt his private life was his business and I had some sympathy, but this was directly impacting on the FA. The timing of the news story may have been an issue in the vote. The FA compliance committee investigated the BBC's allegations but did not find any breach of FA or Premier League rules by Arsenal.On 30 June 2006, FIFA released a statement claiming there was no evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing by Arsenal in relation to its ties with Beveren. This came following close consultation with the FA which had investigated the allegations made by Newsnight. FIFA’s statement concluded by stating that "In view of these findings, FIFA does not see any reason for further investigation or for any additional measures to be taken in this connection." Lazio 2-0 Celtic: Brendan Rodgers' men left to rue missed chances after they crash out of Europe... with sub... Lionesses Leah Williamson, Mary Earps and Chloe Kelly join Gary Lineker and an array of sporting luminaries at GQ Men of the Year Awards Former Man United transfer flop looks unrecognisable... 24 years on from producing one of the Premier League's biggest howlersEx-LaLiga star and Ghana striker Raphael Dwamena's cardiologist reveals he chose to have a defibrillator REMOVED a year before he collapsed and died On 18 April 2007, it was revealed by Arsenal that he had left the club with immediate effect after "irreconcilable differences" between himself and the rest of the board. It is thought that he was in favour of a possible takeover of Arsenal by an external benefactor seeking to invest money into the club. Arsenal had invested heavily in the development of their new stadium which forced the club to take on heavy debts which meant the club was in need of new revenue. The other members of the board were said to have signed a contractual agreement that they would not sell their shares for a year, and they jointly expressed their intention to retain their shares in the longer term. Dein was replaced as G-14 chairman by Olympique Lyonnais chairman Jean-Michel Aulas the following month. Sale of Arsenal shareholding

Harry Kane breaks MORE records as he scores again and nets his EIGHTEENTH goal of the season in Bayern Munich's 1-0 win against Cologne Manchester United fans left fuming at question asked by TNT Sports reporter to Erik ten Hag ahead of vital Champions League clash against Galatasaray Dyke is now phlegmatic about the decision. “I was a bit naive, because it was always going to end up on pay TV at some stage,” he says. “If we’d have won you’d just have had a single Sunday afternoon game like we’d done the previous four years. We might have won it that time but in the end pay TV would have won out.”Then, he says, there were no warning signs of what was to come. “I don’t think 15 years ago there was any thought of the Russian oligarchs being sanctioned. Who can say that Roman [Abramovich] didn’t do a great job for them? You ask any Chelsea supporter. The club were virtually bust before Roman came in, he turned the club around.” The story of how the Premier League came into being is one of determination and deceit, of clubbable bureaucracy coming face to face with free-wheeling entrepreneurialism. In effect it is a story of its age, the late 1980s and early 1990s, when Thatcherism had smashed post-war orthodoxies but created little in its place. Football, the national game, was on its knees: stigmatised as a crucible for hooliganism, grieving after the tragedy of Hillsborough. The sport was loathed by government and struggling to make ends meet. Yet a great opportunity was approaching and a small number of ambitious men were ready to seize it.

Dein believed that English football was falling behind other European leagues and was not embracing a forward-looking plan to improve. He saw Wenger as the man to help push Arsenal forward embracing new methods to achieve this. Dein also believed that Wenger would change Arsenal's style of play which was seen as dogmatic and one-dimensional to one based on technique and speed more attuned with the approach adopted by teams from the continent. DD: But Arsenal are an English club. What about a rule where 50 per cent of players have to be homegrown?I was a fan on the board. I could never have agreed to a project like the Super League. If I was there when that happened, I’d have resigned. They didn’t read the tea leaves. A closed shop? Nobody has a divine right. Some of these owners think they’re too big for the rest of the league. They’re deluded.’ It eventually led him to Kroenke, whom Hill-Wood would first haughtily dismiss and then later sell all his remaining shares. So too did the other key stakeholders in the board, including Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, handing Kroenke control and eventually the leverage to get Usmanov’s shares too. On Kroenke, Dein is withering. He writes in “Calling the Shots” that he had thought Kroenke would have been a bigger investor in the club. He says that Arsenal is just part of Kroenke’s portfolio and not his whole life. Man City unveil tribute to club legends Colin Bell, Francis Lee and Mike Summerbee... with bronze statue hailed as 'truly special' for the players and the families SIYA KOLISI opens up on suffering childhood hunger and violence in moving first interview since clinching World Cup glory Dein sat on the FA Board until 2 June 2006 as one of four representatives of the FA Premier League clubs on the Football Association board. He was replaced by David Gill, chief executive of Manchester United. This removal came one day after a news story broke on the BBC's Newsnight programme regarding possible infringements of FIFA rules regarding player transfers with, and loans to, Belgian club Beveren.