By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2011 Manchester City’s storming start to the 2011-12 Premier League season has highlighted their potential and reminded us how much they’ve spent in recent years. I calculate that Sheikh Mansour has spent around £750m since 2008 on acquiring the club, paying off debts, […]
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The Sports Lawyer: ‘The riots have highlighted the need for sport to have adequate insurance’
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 discusses sports contingency insurance given the […]
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The Sports Lawyer: ‘With the money in football, a club could argue that one bad decision is worth millions. Could that be worth legal action?’
* 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, Ashley Wootton discusses technology in sport […]
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The Sports Lawyer: ‘When TV is the paymaster, scheduling can be a legal minefield’
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 discusses the problems that […]
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Shergar: kidnapped by the IRA, killed, buried in a bog in north County Leitrim
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 June 2011 . The winner of this afternoon’s Derby was Pour Moi, ridden home by Mickael Barzalona, aged just 19 and the youngest jockey to have won the race since Walter Swinburn. In 1981, Swinburn, also 19, was aboard Shergar as the Aga Khan’s star horse […]
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Charge sheet: Fifa’s murky dealings in the Blatter era
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 May 2011 . When Sepp Blatter took to the stage in Zurich on Monday, Fifa’s president declared: ‘Crisis, what is a crisis?’ In a display widely reported as “arrogant” and “contemptuous” (and which can be viewed in full here), the 75-year-old Swiss, the head […]
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Mind the gap: how leaving the Premier League can seriously damage your wealth
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 May 2011 So what next for West Ham, Blackpool and Birmingham, the three teams who were removed from Survival Sunday in body bags? To hazard a guess based on recent trends and on a hunch, I’d say that in four years: one of them […]
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The Sports Lawyer: ‘It is possible the QPR ruling – with its inconsistency – won’t be the end of the matter’
* 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 discusses the alleged […]
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The Sports Lawyer: ‘If QPR are deducted points, it is possible they could be deducted next season’
* 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 discusses the alleged […]
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‘Sincere good wishes to Wills and Kate, but a 2bn TV audience? Garbage. Only the Olympics and the World Cup are truly global events, and half as big as that at best’
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 April 2011 I’m not certain who started it, although Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt had a role in spreading the myth that the Royal Wedding on Friday will be watched by a global audience of 2 billion people. Hunt even cited this figure of 2bn […]
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