By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 Mohammad Amir, 19, the youngest of the three Pakistan cricketers jailed last year for spot-fixing in the Lord’s Test in summer 2010, has been released from prison ‘in the last two hours’ according to sources close to the player. (Time of writing […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 December 2011 England’s Premier League is, by far, the nation’s most successful sporting export, watched live each week in more than 200 countries, and earning from foreign TV rights alone £1.437bn for the current three-year overseas deals (or £479m a year) as reported by sportingintelligence last […]

THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the issue of corruption in sport. […]

* By Sportingintelligence 9 October 2011 The online auction to raise funds in memory of Sir Bobby Robson – with amazing lots involving Lionel Messi, Barcelona, Jose Mourinho, Pele, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and many, many more – is now live. You can visit to charity home page here. You can go straight to […]

THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the problems that […]

By Sportingintelligence 15 February 2011 . Match-fixing and betting-related corruption have been cited in recent years by various senior sports figures as the biggest threat to sport in the near future. Michel Platini, the head of Uefa, has said so numerous times now, including in this interview from November 2010, when he said: “To fix […]

By Nick Harris 4 February 2011 The three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of the ‘spot-fix’ scandal arising from the fourth Test against England at Lord’s last summer are to face criminal charges, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced today. Separately, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will discover on Saturday the verdicts from […]

By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Salman Butt, Pakistan’s suspended cricket captain, told Sky Sports News last week that some of the £29,000 cash found in his hotel room amid spot-fixing allegations at the Lord’s Test was from opening an ice-cream parlour called Afters, located in Tooting Bec, south London. That claim was widely reported, […]

By Nick Harris 29 September 2010 The Crown Prosecution Service has told sportingintelligence today that it is not yet in a position to decide whether there is any criminal case against any of the Pakistan cricketers at the centre of the Lord’s “spot fix” scandal, let alone close to pressing charges. The case is complicated […]

By Nick Harris 5 September 2010 The cricket ‘spot-fixing scandal’ took its latest extraordinary twist this evening when the Pakistan batsman, Yasir Hameed, released a statement detailing how the News of the World – and specifically its investigations editor, Mazher Mahmood – had misrepresented Hameed’s views, had offered to pay him £25,000 to talk about […]