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By Nick Harris 16 August 2010 Arsenal were the most extreme example of a “foreign staffed” football club in any of Europe’s five major leagues last season, with non-English players accounting for 93.3 per cent of minutes played by the Gunners. This was among the headline findings in the fifth annual Review of the European […]

16 August 2010 The relationship between money spent on footballers’ wages and success achieved is firmly established, especially within European soccer. This is one area considered in the Review of Global Sports Salaries published by this website, but now, using the data from our salaries database, the Wall Street Journal in New York has actually […]

By Nick Harris 15 August 2010 Liverpool’s managing director, Christian Purslow, has said this morning that “we’ve just received some written bids” for the club, but when asked a specific question about whether any bidder had provided proof of funding, he replied: “Not yet.” Purslow, talking in a wide-ranging interview with Gary Richardson on the […]

By Nick Harris 13 August 2010 Liverpool have yet to identify a front-running bidder to buy the club from Tom Hicks and George Gillett, with an official “holding position” statement released this evening on Liverpool’s official website. The statement says: “The Liverpool FC Board has reviewed a number of proposed bids for the club at […]

** 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. In TSL’s latest column, Emily Osborne, associate, explains why HMRC is so taxing […]

By Brian Sears 13 August 2010 Manchester United have been by far the most successful team in the Premier League’s 18 complete seasons to date, as can be seen today in our all-time table in the features section. United have won 1,494 points from 696 games for an average of 2.15 points per game, a […]

By Brian Sears 13 August 2010 So here we are, on the eve of the 19th season of the Premier League, and Manchester United hold a lead in the all-time points table big enough to ensure they will remain top dogs even if they lose every game this campaign. They need just six more points […]

By Nick Harris 13 August 2010 Wolverhampton Wanderers’ main shirt sponsorship for the 2010-11 Premier League season with the online gambling firm Sportingbet is worth £1.1m to the club, a year-on-year rise of £200,000 from last season’s £900,000, the club’s head of marketing and communications, Matt Grayson, has informed sportingintelligence today. In an article about […]

* ELEANOR PRESTON spent 10 years travelling the world as a tennis journalist for national newspapers, notably the Guardian. She continues to work as a broadcaster and is also a media consultant and advisor to tennis players and organisations within tennis, as well as athletes and organisations across a range of sports … . . […]

By Nick Harris 10 August 2010 Researchers at Staffordshire University studying the extent to which homophobia is common within football have found that two-thirds of fans believe the environment surrounding the game will be liberal enough to allow a gay pro to come out “over the next two to five years”. At one level this […]