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By Sportingintelligence 2 March 2012 The statement below has just been issued (5.50pm) by Duff & Phelps, administrators for Rangers, confirming job cut decisions have been postponed until after the weekend. Duff & Phelps also confirm here legal action being taken to freeze monies in various accounts while taking other action to rescue the club. […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 February 2012 Portsmouth landlady Karen Murphy has had her conviction for showing Premier League games with a foreign decoder overturned. Reports here and here. But she is no closer to her original objective of being allowed to show live Premier League games in her pub using a foreign decoder. The Premier League have […]

. By Sportingintelligence 24 February 2012 . The graphic below depicts the cumulative growth in combined net transfer spend and first-team wages at Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal since 2002. This graphic is a companion item to the news feature LINKED HERE. In essence: Chelsea have spent loads on transfer fees and huge amounts on wages […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 February 2012 Craig Whyte, the beleagured former owner of Rangers, has today issued the statement below, published in full, admitting he repaid the Lloyds bank loan at the heart of his takeover with cash leveraged against future ticket sales. The wide-ranging statement, published here verbatim, also claims that Whyte wants to gift […]

By Sportingintelligence 9 February 2012 The 15th edition of Deloitte’s Football Money League was published today, and the compilation of annual accounts from Europe’s highest-earning clubs in the 2010-11 season has a familiar look to last year. The top 20 clubs by income are shown in the chart below as are the top 20 from […]

By Sportingintelligence 6 February 2012 The extract below is from Sportingintelligence‘s Global Sports Salaries Survey 2011 report (GSSS 2011) and shows the top 50 teams. It may be of interest to those wanting more background on this article about Facebook popularity. It is also informative for those interested in the relationship between pay and performance, as discussed […]

By Sportingintelligence 6 February 2012 The NFL has the ‘fairest’ distribution of salaries across its 32 teams of any of the ‘big five’ US sports leagues (NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL and MLS) when you take into consideration the differential between the best paid team and the worst paid team. It is also much fairer than […]

* By Sportingintelligence 1 February 2012 The documents scanned below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. UKAD is the agency that polices anti-doping in the UK. The investigation related to drug use by players at […]

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* By Sportingintelligence 1 February 2012 The document scans below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. That related to drug use by players at Hull FC rugby league club last year. Read the latest updates elsewhere on […]