England

The UK government has turned down a proposal from English Premier League football club West Bromwich Albion to introduce safe standing at its Hawthorns home stadium.

World Rugby’s executive committee has appointed council members Steve Brown and Steve Tew to the Rugby World Cup Limited Board ahead of next year’s edition of the national team tournament in Japan.

English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur has confirmed record revenue of £306.3m (€350.8m/$430.2m) for the 12 months through to June 30, 2017, up from £209.8m in the previous year.

Saracens chairman Nigel Wray has moved to dampen talk of a sale of the English Premiership rugby union club after securing full ownership of the London-based team.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has today (Wednesday) unveiled a new body designed to drive forward the formation of its new Twenty20 competition.

England’s national rugby union team is set to start playing an annual home Test match away from its traditional home, Twickenham.

Premiership Rugby, the organising body of England’s top division of club rugby union, has appointed Ian Ritchie as its new independent, non-executive chairman.
 

English Premier League football club Manchester United has submitted an application to the Football Association (FA) to form a professional women’s team.

The English Football Association (FA), has today (Wednesday) revealed that it was able to invest a record £127m (€145.4m/$178.7m) across all levels of the domestic game during the 2016-17 season, despite a fall in revenue.

Major League Baseball (MLB) is closing in on a deal to stage a two-game regular season series between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees at London Stadium next year, according to multiple reports.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed martial arts promotion will stage its first event in the English city of Liverpool later this year, it has been announced.

World Taekwondo has formed a working group to explore the possibility of the sport being included on the programme for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England, as well as future editions of the multi-sport event.

Andy Nash has hit out at what he claims are unacceptable levels of corporate governance at the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) after tendering his resignation as a director in protest over the emergence of a compensation package scheme for the country’s Test match grounds.

New Zealand Rugby (NZR) has unveiled a groundbreaking partnership with English Premiership club Harlequins, the first time it has entered into an official relationship with an overseas team.

This year’s GolfSixes tournament will feature both male and female players in a move that marks a first for a European Tour-organised team event.

English Premier League football club Leicester City has agreed to pay the English Football League, which operates the three divisions below the top-tier competition, £3.1m (€3.5m/$4.3m) to settle a Financial Fair Play dispute stretching back to the 2013-14 season, the year it was promoted from the second-tier Championship.