By Alex Miller at Leaders in Football, London 6 October 2011 Former top referee Pierluigi Collina has warned that the issue of match fixing was “the future of football” and that everybody associated with the sport had to act to look after the game. On the day that Wayne Rooney’s father and uncle were arrested […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 July 2011 Wayne Rooney’s name was requested on more replica football shirts around the world in the 2010-11 season than that of any other player in the Premier League, according to official data just released. The 25-year-old Manchester United striker hit the No1 spot for the first time in his career by […]

By Sportingintelligence 28 April 2011 Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney has this afternoon said via Twitter that Scotland Yard have indicated to him that he has been a victim of phone hacking. “Scotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents, looks like a newspaper have hacked into my phone,” he wrote, […]

By Sportingintelligence 26 April 2011 So the battlefield of Twitter proved too much for Darron Gibson (reported here in Belfast among other places) but the race for tweeting supremacy continues apace between a group of other Manchester United footballers, and in turn between them and Piers Morgan. As our updated chart shows (below) Rio Ferdinand […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 April 2011 Wayne Rooney has apparently made his social networking debut on Twitter, with @wazzaroon08 amassing more than 135,000 followers in under 24 hours since Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) recommended that his own followers follow ‘Wazza’. Ferdinand is a famous joker but club […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 6 April 2011 Sir Clive Woodward has today implied that Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson is failing to manage Wayne Rooney’s temperament adequately, following the troubled striker’s recent foul-mouthed goal celebration. Rooney shouted an expletive into a live Sky television camera after scoring a hat-trick against West Ham on […]

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

4 November 2010 . A digest of some of the Manchester United stories making headlines today . From the official website, Nani insists that United are now the ‘real deal’ and will start a proper challenge to Chelsea. “I think you are starting to see the real Manchester United now. We are very confident at […]

By Nick Harris 22 October 2010 The Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) has claimed this evening that Wayne Rooney’s new contract is evidence of the Glazer family caving in to fan pressure and protests at the US family’s ownership. A MUST spokesman said: “Like most supporters we are astonished but delighted by the news that […]

22 October 2010 Wayne Rooney has changed his mind about wanting to leave Manchester United, signing a new five-year contract until June 2015. The terms have not been disclosed but the owners of the club, the Glazer family, were directly involved in the deal and it is assumed Rooney was given a bumper rise on […]