Melting pot

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 October 2011 Manchester City’s evisceration of Manchester United on Sunday was orchestrated by foreign stars, with the six goals split between imports Mario Balotelli, Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Edin Dzeko. It’s not unusual these days for Premier League sides to be full of […]

By Sportingintelligence 17 October 2011 At a conference in London on Monday, the chief executive of the League Managers’ Association, Richard Bevan, claimed there were foreign owners of Premier League teams who wanted to end relegation from England’s top division. A ‘closed shop’, he said, is attractive to owners who want to protect their investment. […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 October 2011 In early 1999 when Glenn Hoddle’s time as England manager came to an end in the wake of ‘them things’ that he said about reincarnation, the FA hired Kevin Keegan and the Three Lions rollercoaster was set fair for its latest lurch […]

* 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 todays judgment by the European […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 3 October 2011 Karen Murphy is the landlady of a pub in the Southsea district of Portsmouth and she’s going to become quite famous in the next few days. Her pub is called the Red, White & Blue, which is pictured left and located on […]

* 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 Tevez case, and the […]

  By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 September 2011 [and updated 17 October] England’s Premier League is, by far, the nation’s most successful sporting export, watched live each week in more than 200 countries, and earning from foreign TV rights alone £1.437bn for the current three-year overseas deals (or £479m […]

  * JORGE VASCONCELOS follows the Premier League from Santos in Brazil, where he lives a couple of miles from the Estadio Urbano Caldeira – the footballing home of Pele between 1956 and 1974. Like every Brazilian, he’d claim to know what constitutes a beautiful game. And in his debut article for Sportingintelligence, he explains how […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 18 September 2011 At midnight tonight, local time, millions of South Koreans will tune their televisions or radios into Manchester United kicking off against Chelsea, none of them sure if their main man will even feature. For this is hero worship, Asian-style, and the man […]

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 UEFA’s rejection of Sion’s appeal against […]