LONDON (Reuters) – British digital rights company Perform joined forces on Thursday with the owner of historic U.S. media brand Sporting News to accelerate its expansion in the North American market.

Perform, floated in London two years ago, has built its business on buying up online rights to major sports events and supplying video clips or live content to groups like newspaper websites and bookmakers.

MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Having vaulted swiftly to the top of English football thanks to huge sums of cash from Abu Dhabi, Manchester City are now investing in youth development to try to maintain their elevated status.

The Premier League champions are building a new football academy at a reported cost of more than 100 million pounds on land adjacent to their Etihad Stadium in the northern English city.

MANCHESTER, England, March 28 (Reuters) – Having vaulted swiftly to the top of English soccer thanks to huge sums of cash from Abu Dhabi, Manchester City are now investing in youth development to try to maintain their elevated status.

The Premier League champions are building a new football academy at a reported cost of more than 100 million pounds ($160 million) on land adjacent to their Etihad Stadium in the northern English city.

LONDON (Reuters) – When Arsenal hired manager Herbert Chapman in 1925, the job ad told big spenders not to apply. Angry fans who have seen the London soccer team overtaken by lavishly funded rivals are now screaming for the club’s U.S. owner to bury that tradition.

The club’s billionaire majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is one of a new generation of foreign owners who have bought into the game in Britain, but while some of them have spent with abandon to get results on the field, Kroenke expects the club to stay true to sound financial principles.

LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – When Arsenal hired manager Herbert Chapman in 1925, the job ad told big spenders not to apply. Angry fans who have seen the London soccer team overtaken by lavishly funded rivals are now screaming for the club’s U.S. owner to bury that tradition.

The club’s billionaire majority shareholder Stan Kroenke is one of a new generation of foreign owners who have bought into the game in Britain, but while some of them have spent with abandon to get results on the field, Kroenke expects the club to stay true to sound financial principles.