By Brian Sears 9 November 2010 This is Blackburn Rovers’ 17th season in the Premier League, which means they have already played some sides as many as 32 times each, and yet they have yet to reach a cumulative total of 50 points against any of them. That could be about to change. The lack […]

By Nick Harris 8 November 2010 Tony McCoy’s victory in the 2010 Grand National has been acknowledged as the ‘Jump off the sofa’ moment of the British sporting year so far, bolstering his credentials as the favourite to win next month’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award. The category was included in the inaugural […]

By Nick Harris 8 November 2010 Sir Ian Botham has stoked the rivalry between England and Australia by claiming the English will “stuff” their rivals in the forthcoming Ashes series, and says victory for the tourists will be all the sweeter when England “beat the convicts in their own back yard”. Botham has a famous […]

By Nick Harris 5 November 2010 David Gold, the former co-owner of Birmingham and now the co-owner of West Ham, has today been banned from attending tomorrow’s match between the teams at St Andrew’s over comments reported in a variety of newspapers today. Remarks reported in this report in the Telegraph were key to the […]

By Nick Harris 4 November 2010 UK Anti-Doping has today issued a warning to British sportsmen and sportswomen to “be extra vigilant” when using dietary supplements in the wake of the first UK athlete receiving a ban for testing positive for the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine. UKAD says the warning follows a number of recent international […]

By Brian Sears 4 November 2010 Back in September after five game had been played in this Premier League season, sportingintelligence analysis showed Newcastle, Blackpool and West Brom had made the best starts, collectively, of any group of top-flight newcomers since 1992. With double the number of games played, the upstart trio have continued to […]

By Nick Harris 4 November 2010 A Chinese football club considers the size and shape of young players’ private parts as one factor in an overall assessment of whether they’re likely to make it as a player. An unnamed coach from Tianjin Locomotive, who play in China’s third-tier League Two, told reporters that “many factors”, […]

By Alex Miller 3 November 2010 The man in charge of Fernando Torres’ fitness has warned the rest of the Premier League that the Spanish striker is ‘close’ to firing on all cylinders again but the player really should have had a rest of at least three months after his knee surgery in April. Liverpool’s […]

By Brian Sears 2 November 2010 There are only a dozen miles separating Stamford Bridge from Upton Park but already a chasm of 19 points has opened up between Chelsea and West Ham in the Premier League with 10 games played. Chelsea have 25 points to West Ham’s six. But what does this mean to […]

By Nick Harris 1 November 2010 The Indian businessman Ahsan Ali Syed has withdrawn his interest in buying Blackburn Rovers, saying he has “not received sufficient cooperation from the club’s representatives.” A statement released on his behalf today adds: “He remains committed to acquiring a leading football club should the right opportunity arise but in […]