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By Nick Harris 25 August 2010 Kenny Huang’s questionable credibility as ever being a serious bidder for Liverpool has taken a further knock today with a claim by his Chicago-based business partner, Marc Ganis, that they never actually made a bid for the club.  “There was never a formal proposal submitted by us to the […]

By Nick Harris 24 August 2010 When the first breathless reports emerged that Kenny Huang, “billionaire sports mogul” (or some such description), owner of an NBA team (ahem), and boss of the Hong Kong sports investments giant QSL (ahem), was “closing in on takeover of Liverpool” (or some such description), funded by Chinese sovereign wealth […]

SPORTINGINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION By Nick Harris 24 August 2010 The credibility of Liverpool’s would-be saviour Kenny Huang is thrown into further doubt today with revelations that he has a history of making claims about his background and business interests that swing between exaggeration and falsehood. Huang has been hailed as Liverpool’s would-be saviour in some quarters […]

By Nick Harris 24 August 2010 The following scans include testimony given under oath by Kenny Huang, putative bidder for Liverpool, in a civil trial in a federal court in Miami in January this year. Huang won the case, tried in front of a jury. The first part of our full investigation into Huang is linked […]

By Nick Harris 23 August 2010 Kenny Huang requested a period of exclusivity for his putative bid for Liverpool but was denied it after failing to satisfy some key requirements to gain such exclusivity, sportingintelligence understands. Huang withdrew from the running for Liverpool on Friday without providing any reason. It has been reported that he […]

* THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at 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, associate, considers the appropriate […]

22 August 2010 The Independent on Sunday have pulled off something of a coup by signing (or rather retaining) the ever-colourful Ian Holloway as a columnist for their sports pages during Blackpool’s debut Premier League season. Today’s offering is typically open, and entertaining, and includes Holloway’s views on and support for his under-fire boss, Karl […]

22 August 2010 Jamie Jackson in today’s Observer has written an absolute corker of an article about English football’s enduring hooligan problem. It’s well established that high-profile trouble is now infrequent, and incidents involving serious violence within grounds are few and far between. But Jackson’s terrific piece, available in full at this link, really gets […]

22 August 2010 Middlesbrough’s manager, Gordon Strachan, formerly of Celtic, Southampton and Coventry, has given an interesting interview today to the Independent on Sunday, which explores, among other things, his relationship with the media and why he left Celtic. (“It was simply the right thing to do, for the club and myself.”) He also talks […]

By Nick Harris 22 August 2010 The Premier League’s status as the world’s most popular sports league is underlined by new research by sportingintelligence, published for the first time today, that shows how the League’s income from selling its TV rights in foreign markets puts every other league in the shade. The research is published […]