By Nick Harris 7 May 2010 Accounts for Liverpool football club and its parent company, Kop Football (Holdings) Limited, available today from Companies House, show the club’s total wage bill last season rose by £11m in a year to break through the £100m barrier for the first time. The club’s wage bill was £100.5m, and […]

6 May 2010 The Premier League has used corporate intelligence firms to look at the ownership structure of financially-stricken Portsmouth. Sportingintelligence’s editor, Nick Harris, who is also a sports writer and investigative reporter for The Independent newspaper, filed this piece for The Indie today. The key deal under scrutiny was how Pompey passed into – […]

By Nick Harris 6 May 2010 A PDF document in wide circulation over the last few days purporting to show West Ham’s wage bill is “absolutely a hoax”, the club’s co-owner, David Gold, has told sportingintelligence this evening. The document has become an object of fascination for fans, and a hot topic on message boards, […]

5 May 2010 Martina Hingis, who retired from the WTA Tour in 2007 after testing postive for cocaine, and Anna Kournikova, who retired in 2003 due to injury, will team up to play in the women’s Senior Doubles at this year’s Wimbledon Championships. The pair who are former doubles partners on the WTA Tour won two […]

By Pete Wilson 6 May 2010 Motherwell came back from 6-2 down to draw 6-6 against Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League on Wednesday evening to equal the highest scoring draw in any top division in the history of world football. As far as we can ascertain within a short time period, it appears to […]

By Nick Harris 5 May 2010 EXCLUSIVE Portsmouth’s administrator, Andrew Andronikou, has told sportingintelligence today that suggestions the club’s creditors could have a say in the line-up of Pompey’s FA Cup final team are “total rubbish”. Andronikou is set to meet the creditors tomorrow and will take questions from them about his work so far. […]

By Pete Wilson 4 May 2010 The high value of sports stars’ images as bankable intellectual property has been underlined by a decision by Madame Tussauds in London to spend £150,000 on a waxwork of Cristiano Ronaldo – to go on display a full year after he left British shores to sign for Real Madrid […]

By Nick Harris 4 May 2010 Stoke City’s manager Tony Pulis tops a new league table that ranks “over achieving” managers in English football when teams’ results are compared to the resources at their managers’ disposal. Steve McClaren, the much maligned former England manager is at No2, while Sam Allardyce is at No3 on the […]

. [Update on 8 May, at 9.15am uk time. This story contains links to a fake website used in the News of the World sting. That website is no longer ‘live’, as of this morning, funnily enough. As part of sportingintelligence’s initial look at how the sting was arranged, we screen-saved the fake website, and […]

By Nick Harris 2 May 2010 An investigation by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association into allegations that the world No1, John Higgins, agreed to accept money to lose frames is likely to start and end with the WPBSA and is unlikely to involve the Gambling Commission, let alone the police, sportingintelligence understands. The Commission […]