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14 September 2010 The 2010 NFL season got underway in America at the weekend with a win for the owners of Manchester United (the Glazers) against the owner of Aston Villa (Randy Lerner) when the Glazers’ Tampa Bay Bucs beat Lerner’s Cleveland Browns 17-14 in Florida. But the game was played amid concerns about lack […]

By Nick Harris 10 September 2010 Irony: snooker’s world No1 player cleared of match fixing but banned for six months and fined £75,000 for talking about betting, two days before the game’s governing body announces its latest tie-up with the bookmaking industry. In a statement on World Snooker’s website today, it is announced that the […]

8 September 2010 The former Liverpool manager, Gérard Houllier, who last worked in English football at Liverpool – with whom he parted company in May 2004 – has this evening been confirmed as the successor to Martin O’Neill at Aston Villa. Houllier famously led Liverpool to a cup treble in 2000-01, and after leaving Anfield […]

The following statement has been released by the News of the World after the verdict in his ‘match fix’ tribunal. . Further to this, Barry Hearn, chairman of World Snooker told the News of the World: “It has been a difficult couple of months for snooker and an episode from which we need to learn lessons. […]

The following statements have been released by the WPBSA and Pat Mooney after the verdict in his ‘match fix’ tribunal. . WPBSA Statement A hearing under the auspices of Sport Resolutions UK on September 7 and 8, 2010, heard of charges which John Higgins admitted through his lawyers before the hearing. The charges were 1. Intentionally […]

The following statement has been released by John Higgins after the verdict in his ‘match fix’ tribunal. . STATEMENT BY JOHN HIGGINS 8th Sept 2010 I welcome today’s judgement by Sport Resolutions and endorsed by the WPBSA following their exhaustive enquiry into the allegations against me by a tabloid newspaper. I am pleased that Sport […]

28 August 2010 The most amusing read in any of today’s English sports pages is Fabio Capello weighing up the pros and cons of recruiting Everton’s Spanish midfielder, Mikel Arteta, for his England team, as imagined by Chrus McGrath of The Independent, whose capturing of Fabio is spot on, and hilariously paced. It begins: When […]

27 August 2010 Kenny Huang is now coming under scrutiny in the US for the way in which Chinese interest last year in buying a share of the Cleveland Cavaliers NBA team came to nothing. “It never materialized, as far as completing the application process with the league,” said Cavs President Len Komoroski in an […]

26 August 2010 Two ringleaders in an alleged match-fixing ring that target football matches in Germany and other European countries have been charged with aggravated fraud. According to the state prosecutors in Bochum, the two men were involving in a ring that paid £286,000 in bribes to players and officials in 24 matches (10 in […]

By Nick Harris 24 August 2010 The following scans include testimony given under oath by Kenny Huang, putative bidder for Liverpool, in a civil trial in a federal court in Miami in January this year. Huang won the case, tried in front of a jury. The first part of our full investigation into Huang is linked […]