By Alexandra Willis at the O2 Arena 23 November 2010 It proved to be a battle of who could get their first serve in the least as Andy Murray and Roger Federer came head to head for the fourteenth time in their careers at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals on the banks of the […]

ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the former Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has had the dubious honour of sitting in on a few tennis tournaments from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you […]

By Alexandra Willis at the O2 Arena 22 November 2010 Tennis fans are rallying behind Andy Murray to extend his winning streak over Roger Federer at the O2, after the Scot dismantled Robin Soderling in two superb sets in his opening match at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. Murray, who in the build-up to […]

By Nick Harris 19 November 2010 Blackburn have become the first India-owned Premier League club today after a deal was finalised by Jack Walker’s trust, BRFC Investments, to sell its 99.9 per cent stake in Rovers to the Venky’s London Limited, a new subsidiary of the poultry conglomerate Venky’s, for £23m. Venky’s will also assume […]

By Brian Sears 19 November 2010 Chelsea head into Saturday’s game at Birmingham on the back of last weekend’s 3-0 home defeat to Sunderland but with an astonishing “bounce back” record to their name. They have not lost consecutive Premier League games for more than four years, or for 165 games to be precise. The […]

By Brian Sears 19 November 2010 West Ham rest at the foot of the Premier League table, glancing nervously upwards. They catch sight of their next hurdle. Oh no. Surely not. Of all the places they don’t want to go on Saturday at tea-time it’s Anfield. And where are they going? Yes indeedy; red peril […]

By Nick Harris 19 November 2010 Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association, today advocates that leading footballers at each club in England should have some role on the board to gain an insight into how their club’s business operates, and convey that knowledge to a wider audience. In an interview for […]

By Ryan McKnight Editor of FC Business magazine 19 November 2010 Although this was my first ever ‘official’ interview with Gordon, having battled for a share of the microphone with him at numerous events over the years, I always knew it was going to be a conversation of few questions and a lot of listening. […]

By Nick Harris 18 November 2010 The battle for the right to stage the 2018 World Cup is wide open today as a race already full of twists and turns – with more to come – enters its final fortnight. After an investigation by Fifa’s ethics committee in the wake of reports of corruption by […]

* JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official […]