By Nick Harris 10 August 2010 Researchers at Staffordshire University studying the extent to which homophobia is common within football have found that two-thirds of fans believe the environment surrounding the game will be liberal enough to allow a gay pro to come out “over the next two to five years”. At one level this […]

By Nick Harris 10 August 2010 Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman linked to a potential Liverpool takeover, has yet to decide whether to send the club a proposal, let alone a bid for the club, one of his American business partners has told sportingintelligence. Marc Ganis, of the Chicago-based Sportscorp Ltd, contacted this website last […]

By Nick Harris 9 August 2010 Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman who hopes to lead a takeover of Liverpool financed by backers yet to made public, was sued in March last year in America over allegations that he embezzled $2.9m in a business deal. This is one of five legal actions against him in the […]

By Nick Harris 5 August 2010 Portsmouth have won their case against the tax man in a High Court ruling today, securing their immediate future, subject to appeal. The case focussed on the terms of the CVA proposal Pompey agreed with creditors to allow them to emerge from administration. Portsmouth’s barrister, Richard Sheldon, QC, had […]

By Nick Harris 5 August 2010 Kenny Huang has prepared a draft statement denying that his bid for Liverpool is backed by the China Investment Corporation, sportingintelligence can now confirm. We reported on the likelihood of this earlier today. The statement has not been formally released, and Huang’s PR agents at Hill & Knowlton in […]

By Nick Harris 5 August 2010 A spokeswoman for Kenny Huang, whose interest in Liverpool has graduated from the back pages to the front pages of British newspapers this morning amid claims that he is backed by the China Investment Corporation, has told sportingintelligence this morning that confirmation of any further developments must come from […]

By Nick Harris 4 August 2010 Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman linked with a takeover bid for Liverpool in recent days, has told the club’s hierarchy that he has the financial backing of the China Investment Corporation, China’s largest sovereign wealth fund with assets of $332bn, sportingintelligence has learned. If this backing is proven to […]

By Nick Harris 4 August 2010 Kenny Huang, the Chinese businessman reportedly backed by a Far East sovereign wealth fund in his putative bid for Liverpool, has confirmed he has tabled NO formal offer for the club, yet. The 46-year-old has released a statement to The Sport Briefing – a subsidiary of Britain’s Press Association […]

By Nick Harris 3 August 2010 The Premier League has confirmed this evening the introduction of new ownership and financial regulations for the 2010-11 season in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the type of farcical situation that unfolded at Portsmouth last season. Pompey, who were in the High Court today in relation to […]

By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 A reported approach by a Chinese businessman, Jian-hua ‘Kenny’ Huang, to buy Liverpool is shrouded in confusion as sources in China and America have told sportingintelligence that he does not have the money to buy the club, that he declined to sign a confidentiality clause requested of all interested […]