By Brian Sears 15 April 2011 As recently as the last week of February, there were still three Premier League clubs against whom West Bromwich Albion had never gained a single point during any of their spells in the revamped top division: Stoke, Liverpool and Chelsea. (West Brom’s full Premier League record, by opponent, is […]

* 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 considers the implications […]

By Brian Sears 14 April 2011 The battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League is tighter than a sealed envelope, and 3.814592 times stickier (we reckon), which means that any advantage that a struggling team can muster – physical, mental, psychological – could make the difference between staying in the Promised Land or heading to […]

14 April 2011 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a topical ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 April 2011 Rivaldo, the former World and European Footballer of the Year who was part of Brazil’s World Cup-winning team of 2002, has spoken in detail for the first time, to sportingintelligence, about his ill-fated two-year spell with the Uzbekistan club, FC Bunyodkor – […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 April 2011 So Stan Kroenke has done the deals that will give him almost 63 per cent ownership of Arsenal and triggers a mandatory bid for the rest of the shares that may or may not see him take a full holding. As we […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 April 2011 Updated at 10.30am American billionaire Stan Kroenke has taken his stake in Arsenal to almost 63 per cent by doing deals to buy the shares of Danny Fiszman and Lady Nina Bracewell Smith in a move that will cost him £234m for […]

** 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 considers the legal implications […]

By Brian Sears 8 April 2011 With 72 games remaining in the Premier League this season before the matches on Saturday and Sunday, an average of three goals per game would see a record level of scoring this campaign, the 19th season in the League’s history. Overall so far this season the rate works out at 2.77 […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 7 April 2011 Keith Harris, the chairman of the investment bank Seymour Pierce and the man who brokered billionaire takeovers at Premier League clubs Chelsea, Aston Villa, Manchester City and elsewhere, has revealed today that he has advised Liverpool and Everton to groundshare. Harris, speaking at the SportAccord conference […]