By Nick Harris 30 October 2010 Ronnie O’Sullivan claimed tonight that snooker “has finally entered the 21st century” after winning the inaugural event under the Power Snooker format, beating China’s Ding Junhui in the final after a day of thrills, spills, confusion, jeers, cheers and beers. ‘The Rocket’ picked up a winner’s cheque of £35,000 […]

By Nick Harris 29 October 2010 The former Liverpool suitor Kenny Huang, exposed by sportingintelligence in August (link here) as someone with limited sports business credentials who lied under oath in an embezzlement trial (which he won), has today been served with legal papers in London that accuse him of fraud, deceit and defamation among other things, […]

By Brian Sears 28 October 2010 Tottenham have played their first nine games of this Premier League season without playing any of the ‘big four’ – Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool or Manchester United.  That’s about to change as they’ll meet all four by the middle of December, starting with the tough test this Saturday of United […]

By Brian Sears 28 October 2010 A remarkable sequence of results has unfolded in the 12 Premier League derbies between Aston Villa and Birmingham over the past eight years, a period only denied four further meetings by temporary Blue absences from the top flight. For the first six of those meetings, Birmingham hardly put a […]

By Nick Harris 27 October 2010 The death of an octopus called Paul in a German aquarium has triggered a global surge in news coverage that underlines the vacuity of celebrity culture, the power of anything football-related to attract coverage, and the relentless march of clever PR. Far from being a simple cephalopod that got […]

By Alexandra Willis 27 October 2010 Former world No.1 Jim Courier has been selected as the new US Davis Cup captain, following Patrick McEnroe’s resignation last month. The four-time Grand Slam champion, who helped his country lift Dwight Davis’ famous trophy in 1992 and 1995, announced his interest in the role as soon as it […]

By Nick Harris 24 October 2010 Portsmouth have been pulled back from the brink of extinction after former owner Sacha Gaydamak released a statement confirming he will agree the deal to bring them out of administration. As recently as the past few days it seemed Pompey could fold and that a phoenix club would be […]

By Nick Harris 22 October 2010 Sportingintelligence can reveal that plans for a new Portsmouth football club, AFC Portsmouth, are well advanced and the organisers behind the proposed new club – which would replace the one threatened imminently with liquidation – have already had secret consultations with football governing bodies about where in the football […]

By Nick Harris 22 October 2010 The Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) has claimed this evening that Wayne Rooney’s new contract is evidence of the Glazer family caving in to fan pressure and protests at the US family’s ownership. A MUST spokesman said: “Like most supporters we are astonished but delighted by the news that […]

By Nick Harris 21 October 2010 The former Manchester United striker and Paul Stretford client Andy Cole has this evening asserted that Stretford “is a key factor in what’s going on with Manchester United’s best player [Wayne Rooney] at the moment.” Writing in his column for the Friday edition of the Abu Dhabi newspaper, The […]