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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 16 January 2012 SEAN Long, the former Wigan, St Helens, England and Great Britain international rugby league star, has spoken for the first time – exclusively to Sportingintelligence – about his role in the rugby drugs scandal at Hull FC that led to Martin Gleeson […]

By Steve Menary 16 January 2012 FIFA’s former director of international relations Jérôme Champagne has entered the debate over the future governance of the world body by sending a detailed assessment of the problems facing the game and potential remedies to all 208 members. A former French diplomat, member of the 1998 World Cup organising […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year. 15 January 2012 The former Great Britain rugby league international Martin Gleeson has spoken today for the first time about the circumstances in which he came to fail a drugs test, and how more widespread use of a stimulant was covered up. His story, and a […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 January 2012 AN extraordinary letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner, Anuradha Desai, proves they felt helpless at the direction the club was taking as early as January last year, just a few months after the takeover by Venky’s. […]

By Brian Sears 13 January 2012 In 20 years of Premier League football and having played 754 games in the revamped division, Manchester United have only faced their present indignity of consecutive defeats on 13 previous occasions. By comparison, their strongest long-term rivals in the PL era, Arsenal, have had back-to-back defeats 32 times. Two league […]

By Alex Miller 13 January 2012 Leading football clubs are being heavily targeted by HMRC over perks afforded to players and WAGs  – partially because the taxman has already received information and tip-offs relating to major financial discrepancies at at least one top Premier League club, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The finance directors at all Premier […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 January 2012  The most lucrative Grand Slam in tennis history is nigh, with the Australian Open singles winners due to collect Aus$2.3m each (£1.49m), which is more than any Slam singles winners to date. For triumphing in the doubles, the winning couples will split […]

By Sportingintelligence  5 January 2012 A tennis coaching document used at one of the world’s most famous tennis academies – Nick Bollettieri’s in Florida – recommends breathing out when hitting the ball in a manner that naturally leads to punctuation with a grunt, it has been revealed today. While the academy and Bollettieri – who […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 January 2012  BLACKBURN Rovers are planning to make net player sales in the January transfer window – with their Canadian winger Junior Hoilett almost certain to go soon – but the sell-off may not be as drastic as envisaged even a few days ago, […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 January 2012 On the first day of 2012, we draw a line under 2011 by publishing below a variety of league tables from the last calendar year in English football. This first table is a composite top 10 of any club who […]