* 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, Louise Campbell considers the legal repercussions after […]
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ALEX WILLIS: ‘Try as we may, it has seemed impossible to unravel the curious case of Andy Murray. This weekend, a little more light was shed on the answer to that riddle’
ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went […]
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In the week of the Merseyside derby: the tale of Everton’s Dixie, the Babe, the Sox and Liverpool
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 […]
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Q&A on Financial Fair Play and the mountain Man City have to climb
By Nick Harris 8 October 2010 Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations won’t wipe out the tradition of benefactor involvement in football. They will merely lead to bans from European competition for clubs whose owners want to spend lots of their own money building up those clubs. Those who want to spend freely can do so, […]
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ALEX WILLIS: ‘I never experienced that unfathomable pull of a fan putting their lung capacity into cheering on 11 men they don’t know’
ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went […]
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‘Muhammad Ali briefly came into my life in the 1970s as a result of an unemployed labourer and former bare-knuckle boxer from Abingdon’
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) […]
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THE SPORTS LAWYER: ‘The Pakistan spot-fixing saga highlights difficulties of dealing with defamation that can be global in minutes’
* 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, Danielle McCormick discusses how the internet age poses new […]
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Pakistan spot-fixing: The exposé’s aim might have been noble, but the Lord’s fixing was ordered and paid for by a newspaper
By Nick Harris 31 August 2010 The News of the World’s front page headline on 9 May (below) said ‘Higgins bet on himself to LOSE’ (NotW’s capitals), which might have suggested to some readers that the Higgins in question – John Higgins, the world No1 snooker player – had bet on himself to lose. In […]
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Kenny Huang’s meteoric rise from obscurity to Liverpool bidder (or not)
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 […]
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ALEX WILLIS: ‘The announcement that Serena Williams will not be competing at this year’s US Open was greeted with a mixture of bafflement, befuzzlement, and surprise. But there was also a collective sigh of relief’
ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she […]
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