Melting pot

* 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 International Olympic Committee’s ban lift […]

* 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 Tottenham’s dispute over the […]

BOOK REVIEW By Alex Miller 25 August 2011 The great Bill Shankly played his one and only game for Liverpool during World War II, a Merseyside derby in May 1942, when he appeared as a guest player in a performance that left Everton totally outclassed. Shanks also turned down the Liverpool manager’s job in 1951 […]

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, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 August 2011 THROUGH the darkest night of Yamilé Aldama’s life, she lay awake with her eight-month-old son next to her, a candle on the table beside them – and with no idea what the future held. Earlier that day, 13 June 2002, she’d been […]

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 […]

* 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 […]

BARNET & TACHE: Part 1 of an occasional new series . 3 August 2011 Can you identify the dodgy barnets and dodgy facial hair of the four footballers below, who all played in the same team and all feature on the same page of Figurine Panini’s Football 80 sticker album? We’ve mixed them up just […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 July 2011 From badly behaved millionaire players to corruption in the corridors of power, football has attracted headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years. But next Saturday, 6 August, a small team owned by its fans in south London will embark 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 problems that […]