Britain's minister for sport, Gerry Sutcliffe, has warned the governing body of English football, the Football Association (FA), to urgently implement reforms recommended four years ago or risk losing government funding.
Despite strong resistance from Manchester City and their striker Craig Bellamy who scored two, Manchester United beat their local rivals 4-3 with a last minute goal by Michael Owen.
Arsenal (picture) has trashed Wigan 4-0 to end a two successive Premier League defeats and the newly promoted Burnley has continued his good season start with a win over Sunderland (3-1).
Chelsea FC say they will fight against a ban on signing any new players for the next two transfer windows handed to the Premier League club by football's ruling body FIFA following a contractual dispute with French club Lens.
Arsenal suffered their first defeat of the season after the Red Devils bounced back from a goal down to claim an unlikely win at Old Trafford and move up to third place in the table.
Goals by Nicolas Anelka, Michael Ballack and Ashley Cole helped Chelsea to a comfortable 3-0 win over Burnley at Stamford Bridge and propelled Carlo Ancelotti's squad to the top of the Premier League.
Dubai-based millionaire Sulaiman Al Fahim has become the latest foreign tycoon to acquire a Premier League club after completing his takeover of Portsmouth from Russian businessman Alexandre Gaydamak.
Already owning 29% of Premier league team Birmingham City, Hong Kong tycoon Carson Yeung, bought the rest of the English club Monday for 66 millions euros, promising new opportunities and new players.
Carlo Ancelotti's team continued their winning streak with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Fulham. Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka scored the goals. This victory puts Chelsea in second place in the English Premier League behind Tottenham.
While Arsenal knocked out Portsmouth (4-1), a reshuffled Manchester United destroyed Wigan 5-0 on Saturday, with a double from Wayne Rooney that bring his goal total for Man Utd to 100.
