. Disclaimer: only most of the events and people in this narrative are based on reality . By Smokey Baloney Special investigations editor 14 June 2011 . This a story about the day they knifed The Boyler. It’s a bloody tale and it ain’t easy to explain, even now. The Boyler ran a racket, okay, […]

*** DAVE BOYLE is the chief executive of Supporters Direct, the organisation that works with supporters trusts at football clubs to help them buy shares and increase influence at their clubs. A former long-serving National Council Member of The Football Supporters’ Federation, he supports AFC Wimbledon. Rather marvelously, he was also the advisor on ‘football […]

* DAVE BOYLE is the chief executive of Supporters Direct, the organisation that works with supporters trusts at football clubs to help them buy shares and increase influence at their clubs. A former long-serving National Council Member of The Football Supporters’ Federation, he supports AFC Wimbledon. Rather marvelously, he was also the advisor on ‘football […]

Brought to you in association with the UK Concrete Show (“The whole of the concrete industry under one roof!“) . By Martin Kelner 8 August 2016 London has a lot to answer for. After the spectacular triumph of the 2012 opening ceremony, the minimum requirement for such occasions now seems to be some sort of historical narrative, buffed […]

By Brian Sears 24 December 2015 Christmas is a time for reflection and a time to look forward and neither offers any merriment for Aston Villa. Ten points away from safety as things stand, they can look to no precedent in the Premier League era (the ‘monied’ era, since 1992) for a club with single-digit points at Christmas […]

By Jim Keoghan 17 April 2015 With the general election looming in Britain and the parties publishing their manifesto documents over the past five days, we should have a clearer idea what the next Parliament might deliver for football fans, no? Football matters in Britain. Each week, 1.96m people play. Every season, nearly 25m people […]

. Portsmouth’s High Court victory last week showed supporter ownership is growing in credibility. But the relative anonymity of its creator Brian Lomax says much about the game’s priorities, according to Tom Young.   By Tom Young  15 April 2013  On Wednesday last week, after the latest in long line of High Court dramas, Portsmouth […]

By Steve Menary 15 March 2011 Clubs from the Premier League owe millions of pounds in tax payments, including VAT, despite being rich enough to pay player’s salaries that run into six figures per week in some cases, according to findings from a Freedom of Information inquiry (FOI) published for the first time here today. […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 March 2011 . Sportingintelligence is celebrating its first birthday. Although you’ll find articles on the site that pre-date March 2010 by a month or three, it was a year ago precisely that the site went fully live for the first time. The ‘holding page’ […]