By Sportingintelligence 4 October 2011 The Premier League anthem (click below), which could yet be key in the ongoing TV rights legal battle. NB: Sportingintelligence may be in breach of Premier League copyright in reproducing this without a licence. As and when our lawyers tell us, it might disappear. Further reading on this site, and […]

* THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses todays judgment by the European […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 3 October 2011 Karen Murphy is the landlady of a pub in the Southsea district of Portsmouth and she’s going to become quite famous in the next few days. Her pub is called the Red, White & Blue, which is pictured left and located on […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 3 October 2011 Manchester United haven’t just made the best actual start to the Premier League season but also the best relative start when the difficulty of their fixtures so far is considered, according to analysis by sportingintelligence. Manchester City have made the second-best start, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 3 October 2011 Blackburn Rovers’ Indian owners will be told in the coming days by senior executives based in Blackburn that many of the club’s staff and some of the players have lost confidence in Steve Kean’s ability to turn around the crisis at Ewood […]

* THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the Tevez case, and the […]

By Sportingintelligence 1 October 2011 Harry Redknapp is the latest Premier League manager to pay tribute to the late England manager Sir Bobby Robson and donate a unique prize to the charity auction in Sir Bobby’s memory. Tottenham will donate a shirt signed by the all squad to be presented to the winning bidder by […]

By Brian Sears 30 September 2011 As if Bolton’s start to this season hadn’t been tough enough, they now face the visit of Chelsea – who in their last dozen visits to Bolton have had a remarkable turnaround in fortunes. In the pair’s Premier League games on Bolton turf, Bolton began with two victories; McGinlay, Curcic […]

  By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 September 2011 [and updated 17 October] England’s Premier League is, by far, the nation’s most successful sporting export, watched live each week in more than 200 countries, and earning from foreign TV rights alone £1.437bn for the current three-year overseas deals (or £479m […]

* THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Emily Osborne  discusses the HMRC’s focus on high […]