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* 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 […]

By Brian Sears 4 August 2011 Charlton, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Preston and Huddersfield are the top five favourites in varying orders with most bookmakers to get promoted from League One this season. It is little coincidence that they are also the five clubs who have spent the most post-war years above the current division […]

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 […]

. In their “Freakonomics for sports” book, Scorecasting, Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim challenge conventional wisdom, uncover the hidden influences in sports and uses reams of data to investigate questions that tug at every fan. Are there really make-up calls in sports? Is there, in fact, a home field advantage? Is there really […]

. Disclaimer: only most of the events and people in this narrative are based on reality . By Smokey Baloney Special investigations editor 14 June 2011 . This a story about the day they knifed The Boyler. It’s a bloody tale and it ain’t easy to explain, even now. The Boyler ran a racket, okay, […]

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 […]

By Brian Sears 27 May 2011 When their relegation was confirmed last Sunday, Blackpool became the 26th side in the Premier League’s history to be relegated in the first season after coming up from the Championship. In this regard, they are ‘One-season wonders’ (OSWs), and though it won’t be much solace to them, their 39 […]

26 May 2011 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a topical ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the […]