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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) […]

By Brian Sears 8 September 2010 West Ham currently prop up the Premier League table, pointless after three games and with a goal difference of minus eight after defeats to Aston Villa, Bolton and Manchester United. Stoke are one place above them, also pointless, and with a goal difference of minus four, after successive defeats […]

* THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues. In TSL’s latest column, Danielle McCormick discusses how the internet age poses new […]

By Alex Miller 31 August 2010 As sportingintelligence reports elsewhere today, a leading German sports market research company has provided us with the findings of its detailed multi-year survey into the popularity of club football shirts. The most consistent top 10 sellers, over numerous seasons, as discovered by Dr Peter Rohlmann, are as depicted below. […]

By Brian Sears 27 August 2010 Ideas, ideas. Where do they come from? Sometimes they are obvious, having six six six appeal. Other times they arise in the strangest of places, like on the exercise bike at the gym. A fellow pedaller, also a football follower, was on the bike next to mine at the […]

By Charlotte Smith 26 August 2010 The 2012 London Olympics will be a sensational experience for tens of thousands of talented athletes from around the globe, but for Britain’s synchronised swimming team – who have failed to qualify for the Olympics far too often since it became a medal sport in 1984 – this Games […]

By Nick Harris 24 August 2010 When the first breathless reports emerged that Kenny Huang, “billionaire sports mogul” (or some such description), owner of an NBA team (ahem), and boss of the Hong Kong sports investments giant QSL (ahem), was “closing in on takeover of Liverpool” (or some such description), funded by Chinese sovereign wealth […]

  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 […]

* THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at 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, associate, considers the appropriate […]

By Nick Harris 22 August 2010 It’s well established that the Premier League is popular outside Britain, and as we reveal elsewhere today, it’s now possible to quantify in cash terms quite how popular compared to rival leagues. But where is it most popular? And why? Who watches it in Papua New Guinea or Albania, in […]