By Nick Harris 10 June 2010 The World Cup final on 11 July will vie with the 2002 World Cup final for the record of being the second most-watched live televised event in human history – behind the 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremony – according to Kevin Alavy, a leading authority on global TV viewing […]

By Jonnie Baker 10 June 2010 So then, where were we? The World Cup is where we were, second only to Christmas in the things I look forward to with an almost preternatural enthusiasm. And following my laser-like forecasting of the race for fourth I am prepared, in my position as a football expert, to […]

** 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 first column, Faye Bargery, corporate finance specialist, looks at Uefa’s ‘Fair […]

By Nick Harris 10 June 2010 Glenn Hysen, one of the stars of the last Liverpool team to win the English league title in 1990, tells sportingintelligence today that Kenny Dalgish is the man Liverpool need to to restore the “heart and soul” to the club. The Swedish international defender, 50, was an integral part […]

GLENN HYSEN was an integral part of the Liverpool team the last time they won the English league title, 20 years ago, in 1990. The manager back then was a certain Kenny Dalglish, and with ‘King Kenny’ wanting the Liverpool job again, the former Swedish international talks to Alex Miller about why the Scot should […]

By Keira Daley 9 June 2010 Arsenal’s Russian playmaker, Andrei Arshavin, currently in South Africa on lobbying business for the Russian bid to stage the 2018 World Cup, has given a Q&A interview on his personal website in which he talks about his admiration for Liverpool, his confusion at a supporter carving his name on […]

By Pete Wilson 9 June 2010 Blackburn Rovers are selling the cheapest season tickets in the Premier League tickets for the 2010-11 season, with a standard adult ticket available for £209 plus a mandatory £15 minimum direct debit charge taking the price to £224. This makes Blackburn the club with the lowest “entry level” season […]

By Nick Harris 9 June 2010 Liverpool have hiked prices of season tickets by seven per cent, meaning the lowest cost of a standard adult season ticket at Anfield for the 2010-11 season is £680, and it is only that low if booked via the internet. An adult ticket in the main stand is £732 […]

By Pete Wilson 8 June 2010 Rafa Benitez is the new manager of Internazionale, and his appointment will officially be confirmed tomorrow. The Spaniard has been out of work for less than a week and his move comes as no surprise; he was considering the post even before Liverpool’s hierarchy forced him out. The Inter […]

By Keira Daley 8 June 2010 This isn’t quite the first World Cup of the digital or even social networking ages, but it is the first of the Twit-era, as in the first when Twitter will be used, not just as a medium for exchange of views by fans during games, but by players. Some […]