United Kingdom

ProActive Sports Group, a sports agency company which represents high profile soccer players including Manchester United?s Andy Cole, is planning to raise #12m ($17.4m) to join the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

Scottish soccer fans will be able to see live Champions League games on free-to-air terrestrial television if the country?s two teams both qualify for the group stages of the tournament.

Arsenal's bid to stop a street trader selling unauthorised merchandise has been referred to the European Court of Justice, in a case that threatens sports clubs' revenues from branded products.

Britain's Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski have been chosen to spearhead a summer advertising campaign by men's tennis governing body the ATP.

The Wembley National Stadium board will meet today to discuss the news that the Football Association has failed to raise funds to build a new national stadium at Wembley and the ambitious project is now under serious threat.

A spokesperson for the Football Association, English soccer's governing body, said on Tuesday that the #475 million ($681m) Wembley Stadium project is doomed to failure unless the UK government bails it out.

Gene Upshaw, executive director of the National Football League Players Association, says that a minimum wage of $300,000 a year should be given to all football players, regardless of experience.

In an attempt to assert just how British it is, the Post Office is to sponsor the Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers.

The fans of England's Chesterfield soccer team have taken over their club for just #6,240 ($8,920) after its owner Andy Cooke, of the UK Sports Group, sold his 78 per cent stake to Chesterfield Football Supporters Society.

England?s Football Association could be asked to give a #120m ($172m) National Lottery grant back if plans to reconstruct Wembley Stadium cannot be saved.

Barclaycard were tonight unveiled as the new sponsors of the FA Premier League, England's premier soccer competition.

The English Rugby Football Union (RFU) is considering options to raise more than #100 million ($144m) for investment in rugby, including a possible stock market flotation. The RFU has asked Hawkpoint Partners, the merchant bank, to advise it on ways to raise the funds.

The fall out from the Wembley stadium debacle could claim a high profile victim today when the Premier League meets to discuss the position of the former national stadium and current Chelsea chairman Ken Bates? future as its representative on the Football Association?s board.

England?s Premier League soccer competition is expected to finally secure a new title sponsor on Monday when the 20 club chairmen are called to a meeting to vote on who will take over from brewing company Carling.

A series of proposed amendments to the constitution of the Rugby Football Union will be debated and voted on by members at a special general meeting in London late Friday.

London?s Capital Radio has failed in its bid to gain the rights to broadcast Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham and Chelsea soccer matches on its Capital Gold station for the next three years.