By Sportingintelligence 6 May 2011 Liverpool’s 2009-10 annual figures show a loss of £20m, largely due to interest payments under regime of former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. The full accounts are available now from Companies House. In an interview linked to the release of the numbers, the club’s managing director, Ian Ayre, the […]

By Alexandra Willis 5 May 2011 Come next Monday, with just two weeks to go to the French Open at Roland Garros, and six weeks to The Championships at Wimbledon, there will be no American players ranked inside tennis’s top 10 rankings for the first time in the history of the sport. Serena Williams, the […]

By Jeremiah Tittle In New York 3 May 2011 Lebron James’ partial ownership of Liverpool and his related commercial tie-in is already paying dividends for the Merseyside team – boosting their brand with effective TV advertising time that could be worth $1m per minute Stateside. On May Day, millions of basketball fans world-wide watched as the […]

* 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 alleged […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 May 2011 An investigation by Sportingintelligence has found that at least five professional sportsmen have failed drugs tests – and in three cases been banned – after taking supplements, including diet pills, marketed by the same company that has issued private product recalls because […]

2 May 2011 By Sportingintelligence Below is a scan of a press release (relevant to a story on this website today) from a nutritional supplements company, Ultimate Sports Nutrition, headquartered in South Africa, that makes a range of nutritional supplements. USN’s UK website is linked here. The scanned press released was available, at this link, in […]

By Brian Sears 28 April 2011 Out of the 380 Premier League games this season, 98 could be classified as derby games – 56 in the north-west, 20 in the Midlands, 20 in London and the two between Newcastle and Sunderland in the north-east. There are five derby games this weekend: Blackburn v Bolton and Wigan […]

By Sportingintelligence 28 April 2011 Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney has this afternoon said via Twitter that Scotland Yard have indicated to him that he has been a victim of phone hacking. “Scotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents, looks like a newspaper have hacked into my phone,” he wrote, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 April 2011 I’m not certain who started it, although Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt had a role in spreading the myth that the Royal Wedding on Friday will be watched by a global audience of 2 billion people. Hunt even cited this figure of 2bn […]

By Sportingintelligence 26 April 2011 So the battlefield of Twitter proved too much for Darron Gibson (reported here in Belfast among other places) but the race for tweeting supremacy continues apace between a group of other Manchester United footballers, and in turn between them and Piers Morgan. As our updated chart shows (below) Rio Ferdinand […]