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Malay Mail
15 hours ago
- Sport
- Malay Mail
Premier League fines Man City £1m for repeated kick-off delays
LONDON, June 20 — Manchester City have been fined more than £1 million (RM5.73 million) by the Premier League over delayed kick-offs in nine matches last season. Premier League officials announced yesterday that Pep Guardiola's side had breached rules around kick-off and restart times between October and February. The longest delay was two minutes and 24 seconds before the resumption of the Manchester derby at Old Trafford in December. The Premier League said City had accepted the breaches and apologised for the incidents. The fines total £1.08 million ($1.45 million). 'Rules relating to kick-offs and restarts help ensure the organisation of the competition is set at the highest possible professional standard and provides certainty to fans and participating clubs,' a Premier League statement said. 'It also ensures the broadcast of every Premier League match is kept to schedule.' It is not the first time City have been in trouble for their tardy kick-offs. The club were fined more than £2 million last year for 22 breaches of the kick-off and restart rules. Guardiola's men finished third in the Premier League last season as their four-year reign as champions came to an end. City, who also suffered a shock FA Cup final defeat against Crystal Palace, are currently playing in the Club World Cup in the United States. — AFP
BBC News
a day ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Just a 'normal' weekend - what's happened to Boxing Day football?
There will be Premier League football on Boxing Day next season, even though the traditional holiday programme of a full fixture list was missing when the top-flight's match schedule was revealed on a full round of matches was listed for the following day - though the Premier League confirmed games can be brought forward to 26 December to be shown on round of games will follow on 30 some fans, it was sacrilege to see the staple of the festive period removed from the calendar, another slice taken out of the English game and the holiday others, it is welcome relief of not having to navigate a limited - or non-existent in some places - public transport system in order to get to a what was the reason for it? Congested calendar and lack of weekends The crux of the matter is the deal the Premier League struck with the Football Association around the congested exchange for scrapping FA Cup replays - another move condemned by the traditionalists - the Premier League agreed to restore the FA Cup fifth round to a blank weekend, having previously been shunted into midweek. It also agreed to not schedule matches on the same weekend as the sixth that point, it committed to a 38-game season comprising of 33 weekend dates and five in is what the Premier League produced on Wednesday. The five midweeks are at the beginning of December, January and March, one towards the middle of February and, as outlined, another on 30 only way to have 33 weekend dates in 2025-26 is for 27 December to be one of the regular match because the competition is starting on 16 August – any earlier would have reduced the gap from the end of the Club World Cup to just four weeks. Manchester City tried, and failed, to get their first match of the season moved, as it is also a hard stop end to the season of 24 May as the Champions League final is a week later and the World Cup follows after that. Matches played over three days? The Premier League is a global brand. Not every place where they have a TV deal celebrates Christmas - and hardly any of those countries play matches on Boxing Day, so 27 December seems an easier base kick-off time for that match week is 15:00 GMT on Saturday, 27 can be moved – but not all of them. In theory, all four of the televised kick-off slots used on Boxing Day last season, including the 20:00 GMT one, could be could also be shown on the Saturday, or Sunday, 28 December. This is all still to be E of the new TV deal that comes into force in August includes reference to a rather ambiguous "six additional matches" without saying what that there is no mention anywhere in the deal about a weekend when all 10 games will be while any game moved to Boxing Day will have been done specifically for TV purposes, not all those that remain on 27 December seem likely to be shown those who devour Boxing Day football from morning until night, there is some good EFL will have a full programme across their three divisions – and all their games are in 2026-27, Boxing Day falls on a Saturday - and given it's already a weekend, the chances of a return to a full match programme on that day is high.
BBC News
a day ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Palace in talks with Sporting over Diomande
Crystal Palace are in talks with Sporting Lisbon over a move for centre-back Ousmane FA Cup holders are looking to strengthen their defence this summer given the uncertainty over the future of skipper Marc Guehi, who has just 12 months to run on his 21, is a serious target for Palace but it remains to be seen whether the clubs can reach an agreement for the central defender, who has also attracted interest from across Ivory Coast international is valued at around £40 million, a fee that would smash the club's current transfer record of £32 million for Christian Benteke in have made signing a new centre-back a summer priority given Guehi's contractual international Guehi could leave this summer as Palace look to avoid losing him for nothing next summer when his current contract expires.
Telegraph
2 days ago
- Sport
- Telegraph
Erosion of Boxing Day matches a betrayal of English football tradition
One by one the old traditions of watching football are being eroded. The FA Cup third round is now stretched out almost as long as Liz Truss was in Downing Street, while in the top flight 3pm Saturday kick-offs are a vanishing rarity and the FA Cup final is no longer the concluding action of the summer. And now a full programme of Boxing Day fixtures, a central part of the football-watching calendar for generations, has been consigned to the history books. The Premier League fixtures for the 2025-26 season have just been announced. And they feature a notable gap: nothing is officially scheduled for December 26. All 10 games are down for Saturday 27. True, the league has suggested that December 26 is open for switches should the broadcasters wish to schedule on that day. But even if the TV bosses take up their full allocation, it would mean no more than five top-flight games played on Boxing Day. The ostensible reason is player welfare. Managers had long complained that the obligation to play matches less than 48 hours apart over the Christmas period was an unnecessary burden. Comparisons were made with continental leagues, where players can take up to a fortnight's mid-winter break, the kind of rest and recuperation that apparently means they are better prepared for the season's second half. Never mind that the Club World Cup, never mind immediate post-season tours of the Far East, never mind the continuous bloating of European competition, in order to catch up with the Europeans it is apparently Boxing Day that has to go in order to give the lads a breather. Boxing Day, the day when everyone is off work, when families gather together, when sport is at the heart of the collective entertainment. Boxing Day, when there is the time and inclination to head off to a live event. Boxing Day, the day that for many moons has been seemingly constructed to watch sport. Sure, the curtailing of public transport on the day has made the journey to the stadium ever harder. Because of the fact the Amex is close to inaccessible without the train and bus services, Brighton have not been able to play a home fixture on December 26 for the past few seasons. But then, not that long ago, to make things more convenient for the match-going crowd, Boxing Day was derby day, your team played their local rivals. That tradition has long been consigned to history, not least because the local police force needs a bit of a holiday too. But football fans are resourceful people: they find a way to get there, wherever it might be. And getting there is more than worthwhile. Despite the chants mythologising some previous seasonal encounter for the historic bad blood between two teams, matches on December 26 tend to have a festive, warm, congenial atmosphere unlike any other. It is a party. Well, at least until the first time your team concedes a goal. Fans the last consideration for authorities What suits the match-going fan, though, has become the last consideration of those in charge of fixtures. Train timetables are never consulted when hastily arranging evening kick-offs to suit the television schedulers. Broadcasters bring forward start times regardless of how far the away fans have to travel (Newcastle made to play at Bournemouth at 12.30pm on a Saturday? Sounds a cracker for the television audience).
New York Times
2 days ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Bournemouth's Premier League fixtures: Full 2025-26 schedule and key dates
Bournemouth will kick off the season with a trip to champions Liverpool on the opening weekend of the campaign. After a ninth-place finish in 2024-25, Andoni Iraola's side will face Arne Slot's title-winners at Anfield on Friday, August 15, and a south-coast clash with Brighton & Hove Albion on September 13. Advertisement They conclude the campaign with a trip to Nottingham Forest on Sunday, May 24. All times in BST/GMT The exceptional pre-Club World Cup transfer window opened on June 1 and closed nine days later on June 10. The summer window re-opened on June 16, while the cut-off date for the 2024-25 profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) reporting period coming at the end of the month on June 30. The window closes on Monday, September 1, at 11pm BST (6pm ET). The winter transfer window opens on Thursday, January 1, and closes on Monday, February 2. The new Premier League season gets underway on the weekend of August 15-17, a week after the Community Shield on August 8, when league champions Liverpool face FA Cup winners Crystal Palace. The final match round will be played on Sunday, May 24, 2026, when all 10 matches will kick off simultaneously as usual. Premier League clubs will enter the FA Cup at the third round, which begins on Saturday, January 10. The Carabao Cup will begin in mid-August, with Premier League teams not playing in Europe entering in the second round, which starts in the week commencing August 25, and the remaining seven clubs receiving a bye to the third round, which takes place in the weeks commencing September 15 and 22.
