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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 February 2012 A new report on the activity of football agents has found that within Europe alone they make a combined income of around €400m a year (or £340m / $538.5m) at today’s exchange rates. The full 82-page report, compiled by the CIES Football Observatory […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 February 2012  RANGERS’ administrators are in a race against time to trace multiple secret six-figure payments made by the Craig Whyte regime to associates and related parties during his time at Ibrox, Sportingintelligence can reveal, and the success or otherwise of that task will […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 February 2012 Blackburn Rovers have agreed to sell centre-half Chris Samba to one of Russia’s richest clubs, Anzhi Makhachkala, for an initial fee of £9m that will rise to £11m with ‘achievable’ add-ons, sources have confirmed to Sportingintelligence. The sale of the 27-year-old Congolese […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 February 2012 When Tottenham play Arsenal on Sunday, they’ll kick off with a 10-point advantage over their North London rivals in the Premier League, and with realistic hopes of finishing this season as London’s highest placed club. The last time they […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 February 2012 It’s happened to the Italians three times. It’s happened to the Germans three times. It’s happened to the French nine times. It’s even happened to the Spanish. It’s never, yet, happened to the English. The terrible fate of which we speak? No club in […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 February 2012 Craig Whyte, the absent former owner of Rangers whose takeover and nine-month period of control at Ibrox is currently under investigation, broke cover to hold a meeting with administrators Duff & Phelps at their London offices in Portman Square (below) yesterday, Sportingintelligence […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 19 February 2012 Craig Whyte, the controversial businessman at the heart of the crisis enveloping Rangers, ignored advice given to him last May about how he could settle some of the club’s disputes with HMRC, Sportingintelligence can reveal. Rather than follow a plan which might […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 17 February 2012 A story about Liverpool fan Lenny Woods’ impending latest trip of many to Wembley to watch his club Liverpool prompted a lively Twitter debate about whether his 33 trips there to watch his club was a record. FOR THE MOST RECENT ALL-TIME […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 February 2012 Two business associates of the beleagured Rangers owner Craig Whyte have spoken about their links to Whyte, but have raised more questions than answers in the process, particularly in relation to the role one of them has played in the Rangers takeover […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 February 2012 Rangers, giants of Scottish football for almost as long as the game has been played there, have entered financial administration as a result of an outstanding tax case. A much-quoted statistic over the past 24 hours is that Rangers have won more […]