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By Nick Harris 25 April 2010 Hacker Young, the accountancy firm handling the administration of Portsmouth, has taken out a full-page advert in the new edition of FC Business magazine – the trade publication for the football industry in Britain – to advertise its services to football clubs wanting advice on the new 50p “high […]

By Nick Harris 24 April 2010 Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood star and co-owner of the Rajasthan Royals IPL team, has said today that Lalit Modi, the under-fire IPL commissioner, “made” the IPL, “made India proud” and “made cricket a feasible and viewed sport worldwide”. Modi is under pressure amid allegations of financial impropriety and hidden […]

Andy Cole 23 April 2010 I’m delighted that Newcastle have secured promotion back to the Premier League, and the Championship title too – that on Monday at Plymouth – but I fear that unless they spend some serious cash they’ll be going back down. Why? Because their squad could not hack it the last time […]

By Nick Harris 23 April 2010 The Manchester United Supporters Trust’s campaign to oust the club’s American owners will move into a new phase tomorrow when MUST will start targeting the club’s sponsors and commercial partners – including Nike, Audi, Budweiser and Betfair – to ask them to “choose sides” between the fans and the […]

23 April 2010 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 […]

23 April 2010 Australian rugby league is still rocking from the fallout of the revelation that Melbourne Storm have been stripped of titles they won in 2007 and 2009 for smashing the wage cap; some cooking of the books to try to cover it up will also lead to legal action. Dave Hadfield, Britain’s finest […]

By Brian Sears 23 April 2010 This is the 15th season of the 20-club Premier League, and whatever happens in the remainder of it Manchester City are already assured of one thing: their best-ever Premier League season by points total in a 38-game season. Yes, yes, it might well have cost City approximately a squillion […]

By Nick Harris 23 April 2010 Nine out of 10 football fans in Scotland want structural change in the game north of the border, with 96 per cent unhappy that teams play four league matches every season against every other team in their division, according to a survey published today. The poll was undertaken by […]

By Nick Harris 22 April 2010 The Minister for Sport, Gerry Sutcliffe, and his counterparts in the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party, Don Foster and Hugh Robertson, have revealed key ideological differences in their approach to the governance and organisation of sport in Britain in an exclusive series of interviews for sportingintelligence, but they […]

By Nick Harris 22 April 2010 Britain will hold a general election on Thursday 6 May. The current Labour government under PM Gordon Brown will either retain power or be replaced by David Cameron’s Conservative Party or Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats. Another scenario is a hung parliament and a power-sharing regime; key posts could be […]