By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 April 2011 The 110 Sport Group, the management company that handles the affairs of a string of the biggest names in snooker, is about to be liquidated, sportingintelligence has learned today. The company is expected to make a public confirmation next week that it […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 April 2011 When the Culture, Media and Sport Committee launched its inquiry into the governance of professional football in December, the need to address the ‘concerns’ of fans was cited as a major reason. The coalition government had agreed to encourage reform “to support […]

By Brian Sears 14 April 2011 The battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League is tighter than a sealed envelope, and 3.814592 times stickier (we reckon), which means that any advantage that a struggling team can muster – physical, mental, psychological – could make the difference between staying in the Promised Land or heading to […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 April 2011 Rivaldo, the former World and European Footballer of the Year who was part of Brazil’s World Cup-winning team of 2002, has spoken in detail for the first time, to sportingintelligence, about his ill-fated two-year spell with the Uzbekistan club, FC Bunyodkor – […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 April 2011 Updated at 10.30am American billionaire Stan Kroenke has taken his stake in Arsenal to almost 63 per cent by doing deals to buy the shares of Danny Fiszman and Lady Nina Bracewell Smith in a move that will cost him £234m for […]

By Brian Sears 8 April 2011 With 72 games remaining in the Premier League this season before the matches on Saturday and Sunday, an average of three goals per game would see a record level of scoring this campaign, the 19th season in the League’s history. Overall so far this season the rate works out at 2.77 […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 7 April 2011 Keith Harris, the chairman of the investment bank Seymour Pierce and the man who brokered billionaire takeovers at Premier League clubs Chelsea, Aston Villa, Manchester City and elsewhere, has revealed today that he has advised Liverpool and Everton to groundshare. Harris, speaking at the SportAccord conference […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 6 April 2011 Britain’s sports minister Hugh Robertson has urged the Welsh FA not to let politics deprive Gareth Bale of his ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ to represent Great Britain at next year’s Olympics. Earlier this year, the Football Association of Wales spelt out that they will oppose […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 6 April 2011 Sir Clive Woodward has today implied that Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson is failing to manage Wayne Rooney’s temperament adequately, following the troubled striker’s recent foul-mouthed goal celebration. Rooney shouted an expletive into a live Sky television camera after scoring a hat-trick against West Ham on […]

By Brian Sears 1 April 2011 West Bromwich Albion and Stoke both seek to break Premier League ‘ducks’ on Saturday when they respectively host Liverpool and Chelsea. As you can tell from our detailed table below, West Brom are playing their fifth Premier League season and they have gained at least one point against all […]