By Pete Wilson 19 August 2010 David Beckham has put Fabio Capello’s unilateral ending of his England career behind him to launch the ‘Back the Bid week’, starting today, in support of England’s bid to stage the 2018 World Cup. Fifa’s inspection team arrives in England next week to assess facilities that will be used […]

By Nick Harris 18 August 2010 A new scheme that encourages Arsenal fans to buy a stake in the club in return for influence in decisions makes the prospect of a takeover by any of Arsenal’s current major shareholders unlikely for the foreseeable future. The Arsenal Fanshare plan will allow supporters to buy a stake […]

By Brian Sears 17 August 2010 Liverpool bestrode the 1970s and 1980s like a colossus, and then fell off. As our main graphic shows below, they were top dogs for the best part of 20 years, winning 11 titles in 18 years in England’s elite division between 1973 and 1990, and have now gone two […]

By Nick Harris 17 August 2010 Liverpool’s status as one of football’s enduring global powers remains undiminished despite the club’s recent travails, according to the club’s commercial director, Ian Ayre. In an interview with the latest edition of FC Business magazine – the industry publication for football in the UK – Ayre is bullish about […]

By Cassie Patten 17 August 2010 There has never been a more exciting time to be involved in British swimming and I’m thrilled to be a part of it, especially as my own discipline, in open water, is growing rapidly in popularity, more of which later. The GB team showed at the Beijing Games that […]

17 August 2010 Wendy Jans of Belgium and Anita Rizzuti of Norway will reach new milestones in their snooker careers when they take their places in the qualifiers for snooker’s new World Open. Jans and Rizzuti will play in Sheffield in qualifiers over the coming weekend; the innovative format of the new event gives juniors, […]

By Nick Harris 16 August 2010 Arsenal were the most extreme example of a “foreign staffed” football club in any of Europe’s five major leagues last season, with non-English players accounting for 93.3 per cent of minutes played by the Gunners. This was among the headline findings in the fifth annual Review of the European […]

16 August 2010 The relationship between money spent on footballers’ wages and success achieved is firmly established, especially within European soccer. This is one area considered in the Review of Global Sports Salaries published by this website, but now, using the data from our salaries database, the Wall Street Journal in New York has actually […]

  ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she […]

By Nick Harris 15 August 2010 Liverpool’s managing director, Christian Purslow, has said this morning that “we’ve just received some written bids” for the club, but when asked a specific question about whether any bidder had provided proof of funding, he replied: “Not yet.” Purslow, talking in a wide-ranging interview with Gary Richardson on the […]