By Nick Harris 16 March 2010 Tiger Woods’ return to competitive golf on 8 April at The Masters, confirmed today on the player’s website, will be greeted with relief by TV companies anticipating record viewing figures, but it has yet to have a discernible effect on ticket prices on the secondary market. Woods is the […]

By Nick Harris 16 March 2010 A British ultra-distance runner who is hoping to become the first man in more than a decade to finish a 1,000-mile race had covered 97.56 miles (157km) in his first 24 hours, by midday today UK time, or 2pm local time in Athens, where the attempt is being made. […]

By Nick Harris 16 March 2010 Fifa has launched a preemptive strike against those who might seek to corrupt the bidding process to stage the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments with bribes by writing to remind all the bidding nations “that they have signed regulations to respect fair play in this contest”. The World […]

15 March 2010 David Beckham will miss the World Cup this summer after tearing his Achilles tendon playing for Milan against Chievo last night. The BBC report here provides details, plus Ian Dennis’s assessment that Beckham’s England career is also now over. Beckham is on loan at Milan only because of his fierce desire to […]

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 Centenary […]

By Nick Harris 14 March 2010 Liverpool’s co-owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett are not interested in selling 40 per cent of Liverpool for as little as £120m at the moment, sportingintelligence has been told by a well-placed source today, and this suggests that no quick deal is on the cards following interest from a […]

By Nick Harris 13 March 2010 Arsene Wenger is no ordinary football man; we’ve known that since he arrived in England in 1996. And in today’s Independent, in a fascinating interview with Charles Nevin, published in the paper’s magazine, there’s yet more evidence. “The moral values I’ve learnt in my life I’ve learnt through football,” […]

12 March 2010 One of the more preposterous facts that’s come to our attention this week is that Fifa says the World Cup trophy can be touched only by “heads of state and former winners”. So much for the people’s game, eh? This titbit came to our intention in this CNN video, which features an […]

By Andy Cole 12 March 2010 I played a round of golf yesterday and I can’t begin to tell you how bad I was. The weather was beautiful and the conditions were ideal but I was terrible. Nothing went right and my score was so appalling that I gave up counting. Yet compared to Milan’s […]

By Brian Sears 12 March 2010 Some things in life are barely credible, and some are so incredible you’d need your head examined if you fell for them. And in the tier above that, you have Chelsea’s record of consistency in the Premier League. Except their consistency is a provable fact of extraordinary quality. We’re […]