The majority of clubs in the Premier League are planning to introduce a proposed £30 cap on tickets for away fans next season even if the top flight fails to make it mandatory.

Another vote is expected at the next summit of Premier League clubs in March after at least seven teams — Arsenal, Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham, Chelsea and West Ham — opposed the cap this week.

The mood of the other clubs is to carry on regardless by having £30 reciprocal agreements with all like-minded clubs.

Arsenal fans may not benefit from capped £30 away tickets after their club opposed the idea earlier this week

Such a breakaway initiative, discussed at the Premier League clubs meeting this week, would help to further expose the greedy seven or eight who don't want to drop prices — even with £8.1billion of TV cash coming in.

A Premier League source said: 'All the clubs are in favour of helping the away fans. The big difficulty is finding a consensus on how this is done.'

An Arsenal spokesman said: 'We believe the best way of helping travelling supporters is with their travel.'

Everton have backed plans for £30 away tickets, which could mean their supporters enjoy reciprocal deals

Bahrain's Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa is once again out in front in his race for the FIFA presidency against UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino after receiving the unanimous endorsement of the Confederation of African Football's executive committee in Kigali, Rwanda yesterday.

If the Sheikh follows this up with significant backing from the Caribbean Football Union next week then the game looks over for Infantino, who had been making rapid gains. Meanwhile, CAF going with Sheik Salman should lead to one of the three other makeweight FIFA challengers, South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale throwing in the towel.

Bahrain's Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa is the frontrunner to become the next president of FIFA

Fan power has led to the FA increasing the allocation of tickets for Cup finalists from 25,000 to 28,732, a combined addition of about 7,000 for supporters of two teams.

This follows the Football Supporters' Federation, backed up by fans groups and led by the Arsenal Supporters' Trust, writing to FA chairman Greg Dyke to complain that the distribution policy was not fair.

The AST also even questioned whether the existing arrangements breached protocols set out in the 2010 Bribery Act and queried the transparency and accountability of how the 'football family' are awarded tickets.

Arsenal's players celebrate after beating Aston Villa 4-0 in the FA Cup final at Wembley in May last year

The FA board have been in favour of Cup final team supporters filling more of Wembley with Dyke saying: 'They have supported their clubs loyally throughout the years and this is their big moment.'

Negative publicity from Arsenal fans also led to their club backing down from surcharging season ticket holders between £7 and £30 because of the category of teams they have faced in the seven cup ties which are included in the price.

Arsenal Supporters' Trust put pressure on the FA to give more Cup final tickets to fans of the clubs involved

Chelsea's latest sponsorship deal is with Beats by Dr Dre headphones as their official sound partner. It is disrespectful to the media if players go through the interview mixed zone after matches with their headphones on — and at least a Chelsea spokesman went as far as saying the players 'wouldn't be asked' to have their sponsored Beats on in the media zone.

Will Bolton now bolt?

Less than 24 hours after Sports Agenda predicted casualties in the battle between the London 2017 organisers of the world athletics championship and UK Athletics, two members of the London 2017 board resigned.

It is understood Heather Hancock, chairman of the Food Standards Agency and Martin Stewart, the new FA chief financial officer, were left isolated after a failed attempt to remove the UKA representatives Ed Warner and Niels de Vos as directors. Their departure leaves London 2017 managing director Sally Bolton having to accept she still reports to De Vos or quitting. However, to avoid alleged conflict of interests, another joint-chairman of London 2017 is going to be appointed to share the role with Warner.

England rugby head coach Eddie Jones presents a relaxed image and doesn’t mind players having columns in newspapers. But all those columns are vetted by the RFU before publication and Jones even gets involved with who is put up for interview.