By Nick Harris 24 October 2010 Portsmouth have been pulled back from the brink of extinction after former owner Sacha Gaydamak released a statement confirming he will agree the deal to bring them out of administration. As recently as the past few days it seemed Pompey could fold and that a phoenix club would be […]

By Nick Harris 22 October 2010 Sportingintelligence can reveal that plans for a new Portsmouth football club, AFC Portsmouth, are well advanced and the organisers behind the proposed new club – which would replace the one threatened imminently with liquidation – have already had secret consultations with football governing bodies about where in the football […]

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 […]

By Brian Sears 22 October 2010 Manchester United and Fulham have a fascinating statistic in common this season and it’s got nothing to do with the amount of time they’ve been without their star strikers, either metaphorically or literally, before being gloriously reconciled in recent hours. (That’s a reference to Rooney and Johnson for those […]

* 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, Louise Campbell considers the legal repercussions after […]

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 […]

By Nick Harris 21 October 2010 The former Manchester United striker and Paul Stretford client Andy Cole has this evening asserted that Stretford “is a key factor in what’s going on with Manchester United’s best player [Wayne Rooney] at the moment.” Writing in his column for the Friday edition of the Abu Dhabi newspaper, The […]

By Brian Sears 21 October 2010 If Manchester City are serious about being title contenders then they need to stop losing so many games at home, and in particular stop losing at home to London’s big clubs: Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham have won on City’s home turf more times in the Premier League era than […]

By Brian Sears 21 October 2010 Tottenham are on course to become the sixth Premier League club to amass 1,000 points since the League started in 1992, and are almost certain to reach that tally this season. They have 969 points to date, so need another 31 points from 30 games remaining this campaign to […]

By Nick Harris 21 October 2010 Manchester United have released a statement this evening about Wayne Rooney saying, errm, not a lot. It says: “We are aware that there is intense public and media interest on the club at the moment, but there are no developments of note to report today. I can confirm a number […]