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By Sportingintelligence 6 May 2011 Liverpool’s 2009-10 annual figures show a loss of £20m, largely due to interest payments under regime of former owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. The full accounts are available now from Companies House. In an interview linked to the release of the numbers, the club’s managing director, Ian Ayre, the […]

By Alexandra Willis 5 May 2011 Come next Monday, with just two weeks to go to the French Open at Roland Garros, and six weeks to The Championships at Wimbledon, there will be no American players ranked inside tennis’s top 10 rankings for the first time in the history of the sport. Serena Williams, the […]

By Jeremiah Tittle In New York 3 May 2011 Lebron James’ partial ownership of Liverpool and his related commercial tie-in is already paying dividends for the Merseyside team – boosting their brand with effective TV advertising time that could be worth $1m per minute Stateside. On May Day, millions of basketball fans world-wide watched as the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 May 2011 An investigation by Sportingintelligence has found that at least five professional sportsmen have failed drugs tests – and in three cases been banned – after taking supplements, including diet pills, marketed by the same company that has issued private product recalls because […]

By Brian Sears 28 April 2011 Out of the 380 Premier League games this season, 98 could be classified as derby games – 56 in the north-west, 20 in the Midlands, 20 in London and the two between Newcastle and Sunderland in the north-east. There are five derby games this weekend: Blackburn v Bolton and Wigan […]

By Sportingintelligence 28 April 2011 Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney has this afternoon said via Twitter that Scotland Yard have indicated to him that he has been a victim of phone hacking. “Scotland Yard detectives came to see me earlier and showed me some documents, looks like a newspaper have hacked into my phone,” he wrote, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 25 April 2011 Sir Alex Ferguson has reiterated that Manchester United can compete with the biggest-spending teams in the word, and while he said United are as ‘sensible’ as possible with transfer fees and wages he added: “When we go for a player, we generally […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 April 2011 Wayne Rooney has apparently made his social networking debut on Twitter, with @wazzaroon08 amassing more than 135,000 followers in under 24 hours since Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) recommended that his own followers follow ‘Wazza’. Ferdinand is a famous joker but club […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 April 2011 The best paid sportsmen in the world, judged on average earnings per player across whole leagues, are the basketball players who make their living in the NBA in North America, according to the findings of sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Report 2011 (GSSS […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 April 2011 Barcelona are the best paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, ahead of their great rivals Real Madrid in second place, knocking baseball’s New York Yankees from the No1 spot, according to the Global Sports Salaries Survey 2011, to […]