Even if they haven’t won a single trophy in four years, Arsenal has shown that it can make money when they announced record profits of £45.5 million, up from £36.7 million in the previous year.

Arsenal Holdings, the company that owns Arsenal Football Club, saw increased turnover to £313 million due to television broadcast revenue and ticket sales. Arsenal reached the semi-finals of the EUFA Champions League and FA Cup in the 2008-09 season.
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You see, I can’t decide which is a better ‘kicker’ (or more newsworthy).

I’m really enjoying the 09/10 English Premier League season because it excites me to see not only the title race is still wide open in week 7, but for the record, 7 teams appear to be well in contention for the title, or at least, I wouldn’t write any of the top 7 teams off just yet.

The storyteller in me is also secretly taken over by Pompey’s duck. As of last weekend, Portsmouth has just “achieved the record of having made the worst Premier League start since the league’s inception by losing all 7 of their opening matches” (so says Wikipedia).
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By banning Arsenal striker Eduardo for two matches for apparently “deceiving the referee” in a UEFA Champions League Play-off match, UEFA had just opened the Pandora’s Box and they know it.
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So Arsene Wenger condemned Man United’s tactics as ‘anti-football’, and even deemed it worse than the theatrical art of diving. Little surprises there, seeing how myopic the Arsenal boss has been from the moment he stepped onto English soil.

His stable of Arsenal players through the years, talented as they are, have a habit of getting themselves sent off. They received 73 red cards in 13 seasons and for most of them, Wenger claims not to have seen how they transpired.
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The Premier League – Month of August Review

The international break could not have come at a better time. After such a pulsating start to the 2009/10 Premier League season, the two-week break between league games will serve as a breather for both club managers and fans (of course, for most of the players it’s business as usual with the World Cup qualifiers).
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Phew.

That was not a penalty. There was definitely contact between Rooney and Almunia but the ball was heading towards the corner flag. United’s main man picked himself up to tuck in the equaliser from 12 yards and it was a godsend for United as they were going nowhere before that.
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Just 11 days and 3 rounds of matches into the new EPL season, and we’ve seen some results which have raised more than just a few eyebrows.

Man United had a 5-0 thrashing of Wigan, who beat Aston Villa on opening day, and they in turn just cracked a shocking 3-1 win on Liverpool, who then thumped Stoke, who also beat Burnley, which then shocked United 1-0.

Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal are missing out on the tumultuous merry-go-round of winning and getting beat, but they should have little to complain seeing how they are sitting pretty at the top of the table.
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When a commercial entity like SingTel gives away something for free, you wonder. If you can change for it, why give it away for free?

But just look at the recent Champions League fixtures:
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said in public what many have whispered in private – that there will be a European League soon.

Driven by the need for more money, the league will see the big clubs of Europe play.

The idea for a European League surfaced in 1998 when Manchester United, Arsenal, Milan and Internazionale, Juventus, Ajax, Paris St Germain, Marseille and Borussia Dortmund got together to discuss having their own league.

They only stopped because UEFA expanded the Champions League which gave rise to higher television revenue and thus more money for each club.

With a global audience more interested in seeing Man Utd take on Real Madrid rather than West Bromwich Albion, the European League makes commercial sense.