By Nick Harris 26 May 2010 Liverpool’s former owner David Moores says in a letter to The Times today: “I hugely regret selling the club to George Gillett and Tom Hicks.” The letter, more than 3,100 words of it (below), was written to The Times‘ football editor, Tony Evans, and is a stonking bona fide […]

By Pete Wilson 25 May 2010 It would be the most sensational football transfer of the summer, certainly in Scotland and possibly in Europe, but the Scottish Sun claims today that Celtic are preparing to offer the mercurial Rangers and Scotland striker Kris Boyd a £1m signing-on fee plus £30,000 a week to cross the […]

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) […]

By Brian Sears 24 May 2010 . Blackpool are setting new standards for ‘small fish in big ponds’ as they ascend to the Premier League. Their ground capacity will be the smallest of any of the 44 clubs to have been members of that top division, and their average following this season at Bloomfield Road […]

By Nick Harris 24 May 2010 The latest failed attempt to kick-start a high-stakes auction for Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith’s 15.9 per cent stake in Arsenal ended in a whimper this afternoon when a Nigerian billionaire emphatically denied any interest in buying the shares, effectively rubbishing earlier reports to the contrary. Aliko Dangote, 53, is Nigeria’s […]

By Nick Harris 23 May 2010 Blackpool’s victory in the Championship play-off final yesterday guarantees them the biggest payout in the history of global sport for any one team or sportsman as a result of one single match or fixture: £95m. That £95m is extra income they will get because they won that one match. […]

By Andy Cole 22 May 2010 . Cardiff have reached today’s £90m play-off final for one particular reason: they’ve scored more goals this season than in recent years, and a lot of those goals have come at important times and been crucial in sealing wins by a one-goal margin, or nicking a point in a […]

By Nick Harris 21 May 2010 The award-winning film director and activist Ken Loach is to give the keynote address at a Supporters Direct (SD) conference next month where football fans will discuss proposals that could allow wider fan ownership and more fan influence in the running of clubs. Loach, 73, whose new film ‘Route […]

21 May 2010 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a topical ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the […]

By Brian Sears 21 May 2010 A new in-depth sportingintelligence analysis of the play-off winners during the 23 seasons of the play-offs’ existence in English football suggests that Blackpool have statistical history on their side when they face Cardiff tomorrow in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. The Welsh team may be the favourites, but […]