By Nick Harris 7 May 2010 Accounts for Liverpool football club and its parent company, Kop Football (Holdings) Limited, available today from Companies House, show the club’s total wage bill last season rose by £11m in a year to break through the £100m barrier for the first time. The club’s wage bill was £100.5m, and […]

By Nick Harris 6 May 2010 A PDF document in wide circulation over the last few days purporting to show West Ham’s wage bill is “absolutely a hoax”, the club’s co-owner, David Gold, has told sportingintelligence this evening. The document has become an object of fascination for fans, and a hot topic on message boards, […]

By Pete Wilson 6 May 2010 Motherwell came back from 6-2 down to draw 6-6 against Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League on Wednesday evening to equal the highest scoring draw in any top division in the history of world football. As far as we can ascertain within a short time period, it appears to […]

By Nick Harris 5 May 2010 EXCLUSIVE Portsmouth’s administrator, Andrew Andronikou, has told sportingintelligence today that suggestions the club’s creditors could have a say in the line-up of Pompey’s FA Cup final team are “total rubbish”. Andronikou is set to meet the creditors tomorrow and will take questions from them about his work so far. […]

By Pete Wilson 4 May 2010 The high value of sports stars’ images as bankable intellectual property has been underlined by a decision by Madame Tussauds in London to spend £150,000 on a waxwork of Cristiano Ronaldo – to go on display a full year after he left British shores to sign for Real Madrid […]

By Nick Harris 4 May 2010 Stoke City’s manager Tony Pulis tops a new league table that ranks “over achieving” managers in English football when teams’ results are compared to the resources at their managers’ disposal. Steve McClaren, the much maligned former England manager is at No2, while Sam Allardyce is at No3 on the […]

By Nick Harris 30 April 2010 The value of winning the world’s most lucrative single football match – the Championship play-off final on 22 May – rises to £90m this year, up 50 per cent on last year. But analysts from accountants Deloitte Touche say that statistics don’t support the view there is an “unbridgeable […]

By Nick Harris 28 April 2010 The Premier League and the Football Association have this afternoon released a joint statement clarifying why Portsmouth have been denied a place in next season’s Europa League, and why that fact won’t change. The club’s administrator, Andrew Andronikou, has been quoted as saying that he will appeal to the […]

By Nick Harris 26 April 2010 Forest Green Rovers of the Blue Square Conference have said they are “amazed and disturbed” that the Football Association was apparently not involved in an investigation into suspicious betting patterns surrounding a game they played a year ago today – on 26 April 2009 – against Grays Athletic. Rovers […]

By Nick Harris 26 April 2010 Wayne Rooney won the PFA Footballer of the Year award last night after being voted the outstanding player of the 2009-10 season in England by his peers. After the 24-year-old striker was handed his award by Jimmy Greaves, he said he would be fit and ready to play in […]