BOOK REVIEW By Alex Miller 25 August 2011 The great Bill Shankly played his one and only game for Liverpool during World War II, a Merseyside derby in May 1942, when he appeared as a guest player in a performance that left Everton totally outclassed. Shanks also turned down the Liverpool manager’s job in 1951 […]

By Jeremiah Tittle In New York 3 May 2011 Lebron James’ partial ownership of Liverpool and his related commercial tie-in is already paying dividends for the Merseyside team – boosting their brand with effective TV advertising time that could be worth $1m per minute Stateside. On May Day, millions of basketball fans world-wide watched as the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 March 2011 . While I was researching and writing my first book, ‘England, Their England’, a history of foreign players in the English game since 1888 (published in 2003), I’d amuse myself in times of writer’s block by toying with the idea of an […]

By Nick Harris 25 January 2011 . Blackburn and West Bromwich Albion set a new record in their Premier League game this week when fielding players from 22 different nations in the same Premier League game among the 27 players used on Sunday. (Full breakdown in the graphic below). To add to the cosmopolitan nature […]

By Nick Harris 20 January 2011 A special series about the new Indian owners of Blackburn Rovers is running on sportingintelligence this week. The main feature is at the link in the last sentence. This is one of several sets of related photographs, annotated. Here are some shots of posters that adorn the walls on one of […]

15 October 2010 . JOINT STATEMENT FROM NEW ENGLAND SPORTS VENTURES AND LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB New England Sports Ventures (NESV) today announces that it has completed the purchase of Liverpool Football Club. NESV wishes to extend its sincere gratitude to the Board of Liverpool FC for their diligence and their efforts on behalf of the […]

JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official Centenary […]

By Nick Harris 12 October 2010 A ruling on whether Martin Broughton and his “independent” Liverpool board colleagues were entitled to agree a sale of the club last week to New England Sports Ventures is expected tomorrow by Mr Justice Floyd following a day of High Court twists and turns in London. A blow-by-blow account […]

By Nick Harris 10 October 2010 Liverpool’s managing director Christian Purslow said today he is “not even contemplating administration and nobody should be”, speaking in response to reports that New England Sports Ventures would pull out of buying the club if the club were hit with a nine-point penalty. He says he hasn’t even discussed […]

By Andy Cole 7 May 2010 Peter Crouch capped a fantastic season for Tottenham on Wednesday with the goal that takes Spurs into the Champions League for the first time. We can assume Crouch is a certainty for Fabio Capello’s England squad for the World Cup, a subject to which we’ll return shortly. First, though, […]