By Nick Harris 23 September 2010 A new poll of almost 4,000 football fans has found that up to one in 12 season ticket holders are sharing their tickets with other fans to keep costs down, and within the Premier League it is Manchester United fans who are most likely to be sharing (12 per […]

By Nick Harris 22 September 2010 Kenny Huang, the New York-based Chinese businessman who showed an interest in bidding for Liverpool (historic Huang stories here) before ending his interest without explanation on 20 August, is still scheduled to appear at a major sports conference in London next month, where the media will be given the […]

By Nick Harris 22 September 2010 Liverpool’s managing director Christian Purslow has today attempted to reassure fans that the club is not in danger of administration and won’t go bust next month; that the board won’t support attempts by the owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett to stay in control; and says there are still […]

By Nick Harris 20 September 2010 The Spirit of Shankly fans group will lead a sit-in at Anfield after this weekend’s match with Sunderland to demonstrate “the growing anger and frustration towards the ongoing ownership saga” at the club. Further “direct action”, including a protest march, will take place around the following weekend’s game against […]

By Brian Sears 20 September 2010 The three teams promoted to the Premier League this season – Newcastle, Blackpool and West Bromwich Albion – have made the most successful start to a top-flight season of any group of newcomers, collectively, since the League’s first season in 1992-93, analysis by sportingintelligence shows. (See table below). That […]

By Nick Harris 19 September 2010 Dimitar Berbatov today became the first Manchester United player in 64 years to score a league hat-trick against Liverpool when he scored all three goals in United’s 3-2 win at Old Trafford. The second of the goals was an instant classic, involving a long pass from Darren Fletcher, a […]

By Brian Sears 18 September 2010 The “big four” in the Premier League contest 12 League games against each in total each season. The first of 2010-11 was the 1-1 draw between Liverpool and Arsenal on the opening day and the second is tomorrow, when Liverpool play at Old Trafford looking for an upswing in […]

By Nick Harris 17 September 2010 Tom Hicks, the co-owner of Liverpool who is desperate to cling to ownership and control of the club despite being unwilling or unable to invest major resources in its future, is hoping he will find funding to refinance the club’s debt from the global investment firm Blackstone, and specifically […]

By Nick Harris 16 September 2010 The coach of the Middlesbrough Ladies team who departed today on an historic tour to the ‘closed’ nation of North Korea has been so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of international media interest in the trip that she told sportingintelligence just before departure this morning: “I can’t wait for the […]

By Nick Harris 16 September 2010 One of the noisiest, brightest, most exuberant scenes in European football, if not the world of sport, symbolises why Steve McClaren is still enjoying the Bundesliga despite the pressure he’s experiencing at Wolfsburg from three defeats in his first three games. The former England manager witnessed this scene in […]