By Nick Harris 26 April 2010 Forest Green Rovers of the Blue Square Conference have said they are “amazed and disturbed” that the Football Association was apparently not involved in an investigation into suspicious betting patterns surrounding a game they played a year ago today – on 26 April 2009 – against Grays Athletic. Rovers […]

By Nick Harris 26 April 2010 Wayne Rooney won the PFA Footballer of the Year award last night after being voted the outstanding player of the 2009-10 season in England by his peers. After the 24-year-old striker was handed his award by Jimmy Greaves, he said he would be fit and ready to play in […]

By Nick Harris 25 April 2010 Hacker Young, the accountancy firm handling the administration of Portsmouth, has taken out a full-page advert in the new edition of FC Business magazine – the trade publication for the football industry in Britain – to advertise its services to football clubs wanting advice on the new 50p “high […]

By Nick Harris 24 April 2010 Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star and co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals IPL team, has said today that Lalit Modi, the under-fire IPL commissioner, “made” the IPL, “made India proud” and “made cricket a feasible and viewed sport worldwide”. Modi is under pressure amid allegations of financial impropriety and hidden […]

Andy Cole 23 April 2010 I’m delighted that Newcastle have secured promotion back to the Premier League, and the Championship title too – that on Monday at Plymouth – but I fear that unless they spend some serious cash they’ll be going back down. Why? Because their squad could not hack it the last time […]

By Nick Harris 23 April 2010 The Manchester United Supporters Trust’s campaign to oust the club’s American owners will move into a new phase tomorrow when MUST will start targeting the club’s sponsors and commercial partners – including Nike, Audi, Budweiser and Betfair – to ask them to “choose sides” between the fans and the […]

23 April 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 […]

23 April 2010 Australian rugby league is still rocking from the fallout of the revelation that Melbourne Storm have been stripped of titles they won in 2007 and 2009 for smashing the wage cap; some cooking of the books to try to cover it up will also lead to legal action. Dave Hadfield, Britain’s finest […]

By Brian Sears 23 April 2010 This is the 15th season of the 20-club Premier League, and whatever happens in the remainder of it Manchester City are already assured of one thing: their best-ever Premier League season by points total in a 38-game season. Yes, yes, it might well have cost City approximately a squillion […]

By Nick Harris 23 April 2010 Nine out of 10 football fans in Scotland want structural change in the game north of the border, with 96 per cent unhappy that teams play four league matches every season against every other team in their division, according to a survey published today. The poll was undertaken by […]