25 July 2010 The World Cup final attracted more than 24m TV viewers in the USA, or double the average number of fans who watched the 2009 World Series baseball games between the New York Yankees and the Phillies. The USA now has more than 4m young players, and around 500,000 fans are expected to […]

By Keira Daley 22 July 2010 The President of Sri Lanka, HE Mahinda Rajapaksa, has today congratulated Muttiah Muralitharan on becoming the first bowler in history to take 800 wickets in Test cricket, as he retired from the game today. The Sri Lankan began the match against India, his 133rd Test, having taken 792 career […]

14 July 2010 French striker Thierry Henry will leave Barcelona and join David Beckham in Major Legaue Soccer having signed a multi year deal with the New York Red Bulls. Henry told the club’s website that this marks an exciting new chapter in his career and life. A full statement can be found on the […]

By Eleanor Preston 10 July 2010 Now that South West London has waved a reluctant goodbye to Roy “Woy” Hodgson, Fulham fans are left with a confusing mixture of gratitude for the work he did and deep regret at losing him to Liverpool. We are also left with the vexing problem of who on earth […]

By Helen Harris 5 July 2010 Can you believe Wimbledon is over? Me neither. The next you thing you know, July and August will have passed in a glorious blaze of bickering, travel sickness and heat rash (or midge bites and mild hypothermia depending on circumstances). Then we’ll be saying to almost everyone we meet: […]

By Jonnie Baker 2 July 2010 So here we are, World Cup quarters, no England. Another stirring display of formation ineptitude from the Three Lions and a nation wonders how so few can owe so much, to so many. But the time for recriminations was on Sunday night when I muttered vile abuse to a German innocently driving through […]

By Nick Harris 30 June 2010 As Liverpool prepare for the official unveiling of Roy Hodgson as their new manager, the Spirit of Shankly fans group is calling on supporters to join a demonstration on Sunday (4 July, Independence Day), to “declare your independence” from the club’s American owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett. SoS […]

By  Nick Harris 30 June 2010 With all the ratings data now available from the USA’s weekend defeat to Ghana, it has been confirmed that the match was the most-watched football game in American TV history. It drew an average audience of 19.4m, with almost 15m watching on ABC (a figure known soon afterwards), plus […]

** By Andy Cole 30 June 2010 So now we know the World Cup quarter-final line-up, and two teams have really stood apart for me so far: Argentina and Brazil, in that order. Coming into the tournament there were so many questions and doubts about Diego Maradona’s team and about him, temperamentally. They didn’t qualify […]

** THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from theSport & 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, Chris Bain, employment law specialist, looks at Fabio Capello’s contract, while Andrew […]