The two players who were subject to a series of checks at the Immigration office of Indonesia after playing in the top
flight league without a permit have been cleared of all jail charges.
Not exact matches
What will surely anger the heads of English football most is that such an idea could be discussed
without any form of communication between the two bodies, and following the Premier
League's blunt refusal to admit the Old Firm clubs to the top
flight in 2009 it seems unlikely that a competition such as the one being considered will ever come to be.
He has seven goals in his last eight top -
flight games, although he is
without a Europa
League goal so far this term.
With arsenal still just taking the first few steps on the road to recovery after suffering the worst period the team has had to endure for many a year and setting a few unwanted records for the Arsene Wenger era, we could probably have done
without this midweek game against a side that is not only the reigning Premier
League champions but who are quite a bit further down their own road to redemption while still needing some points to make their survival in the top
flight completely secure.
9 — Petr Čech has now gone nine Premier
League games
without a clean sheet — his longest ever run in the competition as he is stuck on 199 in his English top
flight career.
With the 2014 - 15 Premier
League season just around the corner, we look at the best 11 footballers in the English top
flight at the moment, including Arsenal and Chelsea stars but
without a single Manchester United or Liverpool player...
The new rules centre around not allowing clubs from outside the Premier
League to apply for work permits, meaning Australians
without EU passports will not be allowed to sign for English clubs not competing in the top
flight.
So it is ten games
without a win in the
league for Burnley now (D5 L5) and they have only collected the one point from their last five home fixtures in the top
flight now as well.
-- Even central defender John Terry (4) has scored more Premier
League goals this season than striker Fernando Torres (2), who has now gone twelve consecutive top -
flight matches
without netting.
Sooner or later, fatigue will creep up on them, and in a derby encounter they've now gone seven top -
flight meetings
without winning, perhaps Birmingham's hectic schedule will be enough to put many punters off them this weekend against a Villa side who have won on their previous three
league visits to St Andrews.
The Ghanaian top
flight league has been
without a sponsor since First Capital Bank pulled out as the headline sponsor midstream three years ago hence the news came as a sigh of relief for clubs.