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The Football Association (FA) has defended its decision to scrap FA Cup replays and insisted an increase in games being broadcast in the early rounds will help offset any loss of revenue for lower-league clubs. It was announced on Thursday replays from the first round proper were being scrapped from the 2024-25 season in a six-year agreement to restructure the competition.  The decision was called “frustrating and disappointing” by the English Football League (EFL) chief executive Trevor Birch, while a number of EFL clubs were also critical of the move due to the financial...

The FA Cup has scrapped replays from the first round proper from the 2024-25 season in a six-year agreement to restructure the competition. The 2025 FA Cup final will be played on the Saturday of the weekend of the Premier League’s matchday 37 — the penultimate round of fixtures — with league fixtures not played on the Friday night or Saturday to give exclusivity to the event, with the Football Association confirming the changes on Thursday. Additionally, there will be no further midweek rounds in the competition. This season’s FA Cup final will take place on May 25 at Wembley...

The 26-year-old defender has come a long way from charming his way through school – he's now key to Unai Emery and could be off to the Euros

Reguilon has impressed in flashes at both Manchester United and Brentford, but at this stage it still unclear where his future lies...

Brentford just need to clear a couple more hurdles before they can relax and forget about this wretched season

Chelsea's lasting agent commitments, the other clubs who spent big, how Spurs kept theirs relatively low

Nottingham Forest head coach Nuno Espirito Santo warns the integrity of the Premier League as a competition could be put at risk by the “mess” surrounding profit and sustainability regulations (PSR). Both Forest and relegation rivals Everton have decided to appeal against their punishments for PSR breaches during the 2022-23 campaign. Forest were docked four points on March 18, after an independent commission found the club’s losses breached the threshold of £61million by £34.5million. Everton were deducted another two points following their latest hearing earlier this week, which...

Premier League clubs have unanimously agreed in principle to introduce new financial fair play regulations at a meeting in London on Thursday. The profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) that have capped how much money clubs can spend over the last decade are set to be scrapped from the start of the 2025-26 season and replaced with a similar “squad cost control” rule to the one UEFA adopted in 2022. The new system, which must still be fully ratified at the Premier League’s annual general meeting (AGM) in June, will work as a shadow to the existing PSR regime next season.

Premier League clubs have unanimously approved the use of semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) for the 2024-25 season. The English top fight will use the same cameras and software that UEFA uses in the men’s Champions League. That is slightly different from the technology which FIFA has used, where a match ball with a chip inside provides an array of data. The Premier League confirmed in a statement that it believes the SAOT will be ready to use following one of the autumn international breaks. The league is already in talks with several companies about providing the technology the...

Stuart Dallas has announced his retirement from football at the age of 32. The former Leeds United and Northern Ireland man has not played since fracturing his right femur in a Premier League game against Manchester City in April 2022. Dallas did return to first-team training in September, 18 months after the incident, but said on Wednesday that he “must now accept the fact that my knee suffered irreparable damage” and a return to playing is not possible. “I would also like to pay tribute to the staff, management and medical team at Leeds United for their outstanding support during some...

Brentford are offering their fans half-price tickets for their Premier League away match against Everton on Saturday, April 27. The game was moved to a 5.30pm BST (12.30pm ET) kick-off time after it was selected for live UK television coverage on Sky Sports, a decision that was announced on March 23. It may yet be moved again, swapping places with Manchester City’s trip to Nottingham Forest, which is scheduled for Sunday, April 28 at 4.30pm BST, if Pep Guardiola’s side progress in the Champions League and have to play on Tuesday, April 30. “We understand the commitment of the...

Everton have been given a further two-point deduction for a breach of the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR). The penalty, imposed by an independent commission that the Premier League referred Everton to in January, is the Merseyside club’s second of the campaign and relates to the three-year accounting period ending in the 2022-23 season. They have since confirmed they will lodge a formal appeal against the punishment. Everton’s latest deduction drops them down a place to 16th in the Premier League standings, two points above the relegation zone.

Neither side left Villa Park particularly happy on Saturday after a crazy, goal-filled second half

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Thomas Frank's side overwhelmed Manchester United only to be frustrated by familiar failings, even if the underlying numbers are encouraging