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By Nick Harris 12 April 2010 Liverpool’s owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett will announce in the next few days that they have appointed investment bank Barclays Capital to find a “100 per cent buyer” to take the club off their hands, but have been warned by advisors that their price tag of £600m is […]

By Nick Harris 12 April 2010 Portsmouth will make a minimum of £2.2m from prize money and payments from their sponsors as a result of winning yesterday’s FA Cup semi-final, the club’s administrator, Andrew Andronikou, has told sportingintelligence today, and that figure will rise to £3.2m if they beat Chelsea in the final. This income […]

By Keira Evans-Determan 12 April 2010 As someone involved professionally in ice hockey on this (British) side of the Atlantic – I work in marketing and communications at the Cardiff Devils, members of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) – there’s no point pretending we operate at the level of the world’s No1 hockey league, the […]

12 April 2010 Britain’s new Davis Cup captain will be Leon Smith, the Lawn Tennis Association has announced this morning. Smith takes over from John Lloyd, who stepped down after a record fifth consecutive defeat for Britain in the Davis Cup. Smith has been a professional tennis coach for 16 years, and was most recently […]

9 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 help […]

By Brian Sears 9 April 2010 A top six finish in this season’s Premier League is probably beyond Birmingham despite their fine campaign under Alex McLeish. But another kind of top six finish is realistically within their grasp: they remain on course to achieve one of the best ever seasonal performances for a club in […]

By Andy Cole 9 April 2010 Sir Alex Ferguson was bitterly disappointed that Manchester United were knocked out of the Champions League by Bayern Munich on Wednesday after a game his team obviously should have won. I can only guess that the pain and frustration of losing on away goals having been 3-0 up on […]

JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official Centenary […]

By Pete Wilson 9 April Chelsea’s Frank Lampard has spoken about how gratifying it was to thrash Aston Villa 7-1 in the Premier League recently, calling the result a “kick up the bum” for Martin O’Neill’s side ahead of this weekend’s FA Cup semi-final between the two clubs. In a message that is sure to […]

8 April 2010 British Swimming has unveiled a select group of Development Clubs as part of its provision of a world-class daily training environment for athletes in Britain. Five clubs earned Development status by right following analysis of club performances at the British Gas Swimming Championships this month in Sheffield. The successful clubs are Plymouth […]