By Nick Mashiter BBC Sport football news reporter at King Power Stadium AS SHEFFIELD Wednesday fans sang outside Leicester City’s King Power Stadium, a plane circled overhead. Behind it was a banner with the message “Dejpon Chansiri Out”. Inside, another banner had already been laid across empty seats, urging the owner to sell. Wednesday
Sports
Owls tipped as first Championship side to be relegated
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY have been forecast as the first Championship side to be relegated at the end of the upcoming season primarily due to the Thai-owned football club’s unresolved financial crisis and ownership fiasco, according to an English football pundit. Benjamin Bloom has predicted on his YouTube channel that the Owls
Read morePhumtham lifts ban on poker but details still be worked out
ACTING PRIME MINISTER-cum-Interior Minister Phumtham Wechayachai signed an order revoking a ministerial announcement to legalise poker with the aim of hosting international sporting events in the country but legislative details are still being studied, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Aug. 4). As this is a sensitive issue, the Council of State would have to
Read moreLeicester City put up banners to tell the world Thailand did not start the clashes
LEICESTER CITY, owned by CEO of King Power Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, put up banners on the pitch and the scoreboard with the message #TruthFromThailand during their pre-season friendly match with Italian club ACF Fiorentina yesterday (Aug. 3) with this ending at 2-0 for the former, Naewna newspaper said today. This is the Thai-own English club’s
Read moreEFL concerned about future of Sheffield Wednesday
Story by Daniel Austin – BBC Sport senior journalist THE English Football League is increasingly concerned about the future of Sheffield Wednesday and their ability to fulfil their Championship fixtures this season, the BBC has been told. The Owls are in a deepening financial crisis under the ownership of Thai businessman Dejpon Chansiri, including
Read morePoker recognised as an official sport in Thailand
THE Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) officially accepted poker as a sport at its meeting today (July 23) with this expected to help draw revenue to the country through holding competitions at both regional and global levels, Naewna and The Standard newspapers said. The SAT meeting, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Suriya Juangroongruangkit and
Read moreAnalysis: Super subs save the day again as England go through to Women’s Euro 2025 final
By Reuters and published by CNA Geneva – Just when England’s reign as women’s European champions appeared to be coming to an end, their bench cavalry rode to the rescue once more as substitutes Michelle Agyemang and Chloe Kelly got the goals that put them into the Euro 2025 final. Trailing 1-0 deep into
Read more‘Historic’ football regulator bill becomes law – what it means for fans
By BBC FOOTBALL FANS have hailed a “historic moment” for English football after a bill to establish an independent football regulator became law. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the bill was a “proud and defining moment for English football” and will usher in a “stronger, fairer future” for the game. “This is an
Read moreDejpon scrambles to sell the Owls as new Championship season looms
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY owner Dejpon Chansiri is desperately looking for ways and means to promptly sell the debt-ridden Championship side to a potential buyer after negotiations with a couple of others had recently stalled, if not entirely fallen through. The Thai owner has repeatedly assured his unfaltering intent to sell off
Read moreJamie Vardy draws interest from Foxes’ Rrval clubs
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A TRIO OF ENGLISH football clubs are vying to sign Leicester City legend Jamie Vardy for next season following relegation of the Foxes from the Premier League in the current season. Wolverhampton Wanderers, a club in the top tier of the English football system, Wrexham, a newly-promoted Championship side, and
Read moreLee Carsley tops shortlist for new Foxes manager
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER ENGLAND NATIONAL manager Lee Carsley has emerged as a top favourite to become Leicester City manager in place of Ruud van Nistelrooy who would probably part company with the Foxes upon the end of the 2024/2025 season next month. Leicester owner Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha has already been given a shortlist
Read moreLeicester City relegated from Premier League again
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LEICESTER CITY have been literally relegated from the Premier League with last night’s home game gone kaput, completely shattering their flimsy hope of survival in the top tier of the English football system, and with the remaining matches of the ending 2024/2025 season being utterly meaningless to the Thai-owned Foxes.
Read morePrivate sector urged to be more involved in MotoGP
WITH the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) currently holding talks with licence holder of MotoGP motorcycle races to extend the contract to hold MotoGP Grand Prix in Thailand Tourism and Sports Minister Sorawong Thienthong urged the private sector to be more involved in the event, Amarin TV said today (Apr. 11). The Thailand MotoGP
Read moreFoxes very likely to be relegated again
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE THAI-OWNED LEICESTER City are obviously limping on the verge of relegation from the Premier League to the Championship, the top and second tiers of the English football system respectively, upon the end of the 2024/2025 season next month. Ranked at 19th on the 20-team table of the Premier League
Read moreApril Fools’ Day: Owls fans’ novel revolt against Thai owner?
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SOME SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY fans are coming up with a novel task of telling Thai people in this country and elsewhere, either via conventional or social media, how devastatingly Dejpon Chansiri, the Thai owner of the Championship football club, has allegedly fared so far. Whilst Dejpon continues to take the helm
Read moreInternational volleyball tournament being held on Koh Samui soon
ATHLETES from 25 countries will be joining the 7th annual TAT Samui Open Beach Volleyball Tournament on Koh Samui during March 21-23 with there being free entry for spectators to this thrilling sporting event. The now fully registered tournament will see 88 teams with 130 athletes from 25 countries represented from Europe, North America,
Read moreSome Paris Olympic athletes ask for medals to be replaced after quickly deteriorating
By AP and published by Yahoo!Sports SOME OF the medals from the Paris Olympics seem to be quickly losing their shine. The French mint told The Associated Press on Tuesday (Jan. 14) that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained that they have already
Read moreVan Nistelrooy given uphill task of rescuing poorly-performing Foxes
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER MANCHESTER UNITED striker/now Leicester City manager Ruud van Nistelrooy has been unavoidably assigned painstaking tasks of salvaging the Foxes from the probability of relegation at the end of 2024/2025 season. Now that Leicester have embarrassedly slipped into the relegation zone after an away defeat to Liverpool in Thursday’s Boxing
Read moreLeicester City’s chances of surviving in Premier League 50:50
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LEICESTER CITY are roughly standing 50:50 chances of surviving in the Premier League at the end of current season, given the incredibly poor performance of the Foxes players so far, according to news reports. The Foxes have already conceded as many as 37 goals in their 17 League games so
Read moreRohl to stay put with Sheffield Wednesday over tempting Southampton
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY manager Danny Rohl would likely stay put with the sitting-pretty Owls in the Championship rather than venture into the Premier League to salvage the poorly-performing Southampton anytime soon, according to news reports. Though Rohl has reportedly held private talks with representatives of Southampton, which are embarrassedly stuck at
Read more