. 4 August 2011 The answer to yesterday’s puzzler – identify the dodgy barnets and facial hair of four footballers of yore – are Terry McDermott, Graeme Souness, Jimmy Case and David Johnson. (Spotted first by @shornKOOMINS via Twitter). As the page scan from the 1980 Panini sticker album shows, they were all part of […]

BARNET & TACHE: Part 1 of an occasional new series . 3 August 2011 Can you identify the dodgy barnets and dodgy facial hair of the four footballers below, who all played in the same team and all feature on the same page of Figurine Panini’s Football 80 sticker album? We’ve mixed them up just […]

The BBC have published the results of an extensive survey into what it costs to watch football in England and Scotland, and concluded that Blackburn Rovers offer the cheapest day out in the Premier League (£17.50 for a ticket, programme, pie and cup of tea) while Liverpool are the most expensive club to watch (£46.95 […]

By Sportingintelligence  31 July 2011 MS Dhoni’s withdrawal of his successful appeal for the wicket of Ian Bell on Sunday in the second Test between England and India at Trent Bridge has been praised by the Indian Government and cricket’s world governing body, the ICC, among others. But in some areas – notably among Indian […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 July 2011 From badly behaved millionaire players to corruption in the corridors of power, football has attracted headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years. But next Saturday, 6 August, a small team owned by its fans in south London will embark on […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 July 2011 Sven Goran Erikkson has backed Jose Mourinho as a future manage of England, and has sensationally not ruled himself out of taking the post again at some stage. The Swede, now in charge of Leicester, went head to head with the Special […]

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 problems that […]

By Jeremiah Tittle In Washington 29 July 2011 If evidence were needed that America is turning on to soccer like never before – and that good quality teams can attract massive live audiences – then look no further this weekend than the Champions League final rematch between Barcelona against Manchester United at FedEx Field just […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 July 2011 Wayne Rooney’s name was requested on more replica football shirts around the world in the 2010-11 season than that of any other player in the Premier League, according to official data just released. The 25-year-old Manchester United striker hit the No1 spot for the first time in his career by […]

Ahsan Ali Syed, a one-time bidder for Blackburn Rovers, is experiencing trouble at his Spanish club Racing Santander amid ongoing claims of massive corruption elsewhere in his business empire. The report linked here from Bloomberg is a good update while the knock-on effects for a New Zealand business tycoon are dealt with in the story […]