Features

By Brian Sears 4 November 2010 While one of this Sunday’s ‘major’ Premier League games features table-toppers Chelsea away at lower-half opposition, the truly big game between a pair of genuine top-four aspirant clubs is surely West Bromwich Albion at home to Manchester City. Removing tongue from cheek, it is certainly a contrast of wealth […]

* 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 […]

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 […]

By Brian Sears 28 October 2010 Five clubs have yet to win a single point in the Premier League this season in games in which they’ve conceded first, and Liverpool are the ultimate “kings of crumble”. After going 1-0 down, the Reds have about as much backbone as Paul the octopus, and about as much […]

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 […]

By Brian Sears 22 October 2010 Manchester United and Fulham have a fascinating statistic in common this season and it’s got nothing to do with the amount of time they’ve been without their star strikers, either metaphorically or literally, before being gloriously reconciled in recent hours. (That’s a reference to Rooney and Johnson for those […]

* 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 […]

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 […]

By Brian Sears 15 October 2010 The Merseyside derby takes place at Goodison Park this weekend with Everton and Liverpool on fairly equal terms; they have been fairly equally bad this season, that is. A chant of “6-1! 6-1!” should normally signal a joyous occasion. Today it’s a statistician reciting the number of points won, […]

* By Nick Harris 15 October 2010 With Liverpool’s ownership dispute settled, another American owner of a Premier League club is about to start reshaping a club, and that’s not a bad thing according to at least one expert interviewed elsewhere on sportingintelligence. The move by John W Henry of the Boston Red Sox into English […]