Features

By Brian Sears 10 February 2012 Manchester City visit Villa Park on Sunday 12 points better off after 24 games than ever before in their Premier League history. City’s previous best at this stage of a season was the 45 points from 24 games last season when they finished third. They have 57 now. As City’s circumstances […]

* MARK THURSFIELD is a journalist and PR advisor, working across sports from skiing to motorsport. After founding his own sports magazine in the 90s, he worked for Eurosport TV then Sportal.com – the first major sports site of the dot com boom – before setting up on his own in 2001. He also plays […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 February 2012   Overseas and over here Landmark dates in the history of overseas players in English football 1892 Walter Bowman, born and raised in Canada, of Swiss heritage, becomes the first foreign player in Football League history, for Accrington. He later plays for Ardwick […]

By Sportingintelligence 6 February 2012 The extract below is from Sportingintelligence‘s Global Sports Salaries Survey 2011 report (GSSS 2011) and shows the top 50 teams. It may be of interest to those wanting more background on this article about Facebook popularity. It is also informative for those interested in the relationship between pay and performance, as discussed […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 February 2011 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 a year) as reported by sportingintelligence last […]

By Brian Sears 3 February 2012 Earlier in the week we highlighted how Fulham had held a perfect Prem record against West Brom, and no sooner had we highlighted it, it went pop as they could only draw 1-1. That’s Sod’s Law – and the glory of sport. Neither does it prevent me from highlighting, […]

* 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 […]

By Brian Sears 30 January 2012 I’m often saying to myself: ‘It’s a funny old game,Brian.’ Take Fulham. They go 386 Premier League games without one of their players notching a Premier League hat-trick and then Andy Johnson does it for them at home to QPR, and then just 15 games later, with timing reminiscent of London buses, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 January 2012 The trial of Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric continues into a second week today at Southwark Crown Court. Proceedings are being covered by the full range of national media, and if you want regular ‘live’ updates too, then among others who have […]

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 controversial BOA by-law hearing. x […]