We'll turn the SPL into a Mickey Mouse league
The Sun, UK
The Irish-based firm have already failed to pay SPL clubs £3million — and need to stump up £30million to English Premiership sides by tomorrow. Sources revealed yesterday that US sports network ESPN has made a bid for Setanta. ...

Live football is cold, damp and miserable – but I love it
The Herald, UK
Here is a balls-up if ever there was one, after the Irish sports broadcaster defaulted on a £3m payment to the Scottish Premier League and cast around with increasing desperation for the £30m that falls due to the English Premiership next week. ...

Premiership side Everton to play in Edmonton
Canada.com, Canada
By Dan Barnes, Canwest News ServiceJune 10, 2009 7:02 PM EDMONTON — The promoter of a friendly between English Premiership squad Everton and Argentina's River Plate claims this matchup is better than anything Edmonton soccer fans have seen live. ...

Egypt's Zaki knocked out of Confederations Cup
CBC.ca, Canada
The Egyptian star, who shot to fame this past season in the English Premiership while on loan with Wigan Athletic, will be replaced by Mohamed Mohsen Abou-Grisha for the two-week competition, which begins on Sunday in South Africa. The loss of Zaki, ...

Yogi vows to excite Hibees
Scotsman, United Kingdom
I'll say to the supporters we cannot go out and buy the English Premiership players. There's a market and I have to go out and work the market. "But, if there's one or two bits of movement, I will try to bring players to the club that will excite the ...

TV firms brace for possible collapse of Setanta
This is London, UK
Fears were mounting that Setanta, which currently broadcasts 46 live English Premiership games a season, will go into administration within days. Accountants Deloitte were on standby to take over the Irish firm. Setanta declined to comment. ...

Cable TV firms brace for possible collapse of Setanta
This is London, UK
Fears were mounting that Setanta, which currently broadcasts 46 live English Premiership games a season, will go into administration within days. Accountants Deloitte were on standby to take over the Irish firm. Setanta declined to comment. ...

Virgin Media steels itself to reimburse Setanta customers
This is London, UK
Fears were mounting that Setanta, which currently broadcasts 46 live English Premiership games a season, will go into administration within days. Accountants Deloitte were on standby to take over the Irish firm. Setanta declined to comment. ...

Italian soccer is stuck in a rut
CBC.ca, Canada
As a result, the game's best players have been flocking in droves to the English Premiership, which has knocked Serie A off its perch as the best league in the world. "Serie A is going to have to work very hard to get back to anything resembling parity ...