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7 August 2011 Chelsea’s new manager, Andre Villas-Boas, has paid tribute to his mentor and friend, Sir Bobby Robson, and offered his heartfelt support to the charity foundation established by the late, great England manager. The Portuguese coach has also donated a Chelsea shirt, signed by the whole squad, as well as match tickets (and […]

. 4 August 2011 The answer to yesterday’s puzzler – identify the dodgy barnets and facial hair of four footballers of yore – are Terry McDermott, Graeme Souness, Jimmy Case and David Johnson. (Spotted first by @shornKOOMINS via Twitter). As the page scan from the 1980 Panini sticker album shows, they were all part of […]

The BBC have published the results of an extensive survey into what it costs to watch football in England and Scotland, and concluded that Blackburn Rovers offer the cheapest day out in the Premier League (£17.50 for a ticket, programme, pie and cup of tea) while Liverpool are the most expensive club to watch (£46.95 […]

Ahsan Ali Syed, a one-time bidder for Blackburn Rovers, is experiencing trouble at his Spanish club Racing Santander amid ongoing claims of massive corruption elsewhere in his business empire. The report linked here from Bloomberg is a good update while the knock-on effects for a New Zealand business tycoon are dealt with in the story […]

16 June 2011 World Snooker, the company that runs the commercial arm of the game, is considering a redundancy programme that could see many staff lose their jobs, according to The Snooker Blog today. The in-the-know baize website reproduces the following letter from World Snooker to employees. .. 6 June 2011 To all staff Potential Redundancies and Company reorganisation […]

In light of this development (the naming of Ryan Giggs in Parliament and now widely in the mainstream media), here is yesterday’s front page from the Sunday Herald in Scotland. Despite claims the newspaper is not sold in England, it was available in England yesterday (for example on order by news desks at papers, TV […]

2 May 2011 By Sportingintelligence Below is a scan of a press release (relevant to a story on this website today) from a nutritional supplements company, Ultimate Sports Nutrition, headquartered in South Africa, that makes a range of nutritional supplements. USN’s UK website is linked here. The scanned press released was available, at this link, in […]

By Sportingintelligence 26 April 2011 So the battlefield of Twitter proved too much for Darron Gibson (reported here in Belfast among other places) but the race for tweeting supremacy continues apace between a group of other Manchester United footballers, and in turn between them and Piers Morgan. As our updated chart shows (below) Rio Ferdinand […]

21 April 2011 . Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Report collaboration with ESPN The Magazine has been covered so far, among others, by … . The New York Times (USA). The Washington Post (USA). The BBC (UK). And the BBC in Brazil. Hurriyet (Turkey) with more Turkish coverage on Eurosport and Stargazete. The Liberty Times (Taiwan). DNES (Slovakia) as well as […]

22 April 2011 In 2010, sportingintelligence’s review of global sports salaries revealed baseball’s New York Yankees to be the best paid team in global sport (by average earnings of first-team players). Today we publish the Global Sports Salaries Survey 2011, an updated review of pay and performance in the world’s most popular – and richest […]