By Brian Sears 19 November 2010 Chelsea head into Saturday’s game at Birmingham on the back of last weekend’s 3-0 home defeat to Sunderland but with an astonishing “bounce back” record to their name. They have not lost consecutive Premier League games for more than four years, or for 165 games to be precise. The […]

By Brian Sears 19 November 2010 West Ham rest at the foot of the Premier League table, glancing nervously upwards. They catch sight of their next hurdle. Oh no. Surely not. Of all the places they don’t want to go on Saturday at tea-time it’s Anfield. And where are they going? Yes indeedy; red peril […]

By Nick Harris 19 November 2010 Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association, today advocates that leading footballers at each club in England should have some role on the board to gain an insight into how their club’s business operates, and convey that knowledge to a wider audience. In an interview for […]

By Ryan McKnight Editor of FC Business magazine 19 November 2010 Although this was my first ever ‘official’ interview with Gordon, having battled for a share of the microphone with him at numerous events over the years, I always knew it was going to be a conversation of few questions and a lot of listening. […]

By Nick Harris 18 November 2010 The battle for the right to stage the 2018 World Cup is wide open today as a race already full of twists and turns – with more to come – enters its final fortnight. After an investigation by Fifa’s ethics committee in the wake of reports of corruption by […]

* 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) and Everton (The Official […]

By Brian Sears 18 November 2010 When Arsenal host Tottenham on Saturday lunchtime in the Premier League, the game will feature the two sides who have the most head-to-head draws in the League’s 18-and-a-bit-year-history. The north London pair have played 36 times in the 18 completed seasons, with 16 draws – or 44.44 per cent. […]

By Alexandra Willis 17 November 2010 Some of the most famous names in tennis have predicted who they think will emerge victorious at the end of next week’s Barclays ATP World Tour Finals at London’s O2 Arena. Speaking ahead of the AEGON Masters Tennis at the Royal Albert Hall, which takes place the week following […]

By Nick Harris 17 November 2010 Football’s European governing body Uefa has open disciplinary proceedings against Vlatko Markovic, the president of the Croatian Football Federation who caused outrage with a recent interview saying no gay players would represent his country during his reign. Uefa will examine whether Markovic was guilty of making the homophobic comments as […]

16 November 2010 The missed shot on goal yesterday by Qatar’s teenage striker Fahad Khalfan is already being called the worst miss of all time, and it’s certainly a contender. (Watch here). But it’s not a certainty for the title, as this effort (below) by Kei Kamara of the Kansas City Wizards in the MLS […]