By Nick Harris 24 August 2010 When the first breathless reports emerged that Kenny Huang, “billionaire sports mogul” (or some such description), owner of an NBA team (ahem), and boss of the Hong Kong sports investments giant QSL (ahem), was “closing in on takeover of Liverpool” (or some such description), funded by Chinese sovereign wealth […]
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REVEALED: The myth of Liverpool’s would-be saviour, Kenny Huang
SPORTINGINTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION By Nick Harris 24 August 2010 The credibility of Liverpool’s would-be saviour Kenny Huang is thrown into further doubt today with revelations that he has a history of making claims about his background and business interests that swing between exaggeration and falsehood. Huang has been hailed as Liverpool’s would-be saviour in some quarters […]
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Kenny Huang: under oath and under the spotlight
By Nick Harris 24 August 2010 The following scans include testimony given under oath by Kenny Huang, putative bidder for Liverpool, in a civil trial in a federal court in Miami in January this year. Huang won the case, tried in front of a jury. The first part of our full investigation into Huang is linked […]
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EXCLUSIVE – Kenny Huang’s business partner: ‘No decision on Liverpool proposal’
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 […]
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REVEALED: Liverpool bidder Kenny Huang in embezzlement puzzle as doubts remain over background
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 […]
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Kenny Huang denies any ‘formal bid’ for Liverpool; plot thickens amid rival claims
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 […]
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Liverpool’s suitor Kenny Huang ‘doesn’t have the money’ to buy the club himself
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 […]
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Global attendances
. Best attended domestic sports leagues in the world (By average attendance per game) . Most recent update: 5 JANUARY 2017 The NFL remains the best attended professional domestic sports league in the world at the end of the 2016-17 regular season, with almost 17.8m fans attending 256 games at an average of 69,487 per game. See […]
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