By Nick Harris 24 June 2013 As tennis’s most prestigious grass court tournament begins at Wimbledon today, the presence of one particular American qualifier in the men’s singles draw highlights the sport’s deeply complex relationship with match-fixing, doping and whistle-blowing. Wayne Odesnik, 27, is the world No107 and has previously been ranked inside the world’s […]

  Stories Contracts via Football Leaks: Sale of Anthony Martial to Man Utd from Monaco – here Monaco & MUFC – Martial; Sale of Suarez to Barca from LFC – here Liverpool & FC Barcelona – Luis Suárez; Sale of Aguero to Man City – here Aguero to City . CIRC report into doping in cycling, 9 March […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 March 2013 The American lawyer investigating the circumstances in which the 2022 World Cup was awarded to Qatar has urged anyone with information that could prove wrongdoing in the bidding process to share that information as soon as possible. Michael Garcia is a former […]

* Matthew Barrett studied history at Oxford University, concentrating on the relationship between sport, politics and war in the twentieth century. He currently works in sports sponsorship and you can follow him on Twitter here. In his latest piece for Sportingintelligence, on the eve of Euro 2012, which starts with a game between co-hosts Poland and 2004 champions Greece […]

. Matthew Barrett studied history at Oxford University, concentrating on the relationship between sport, politics and war in the twentieth century. He currently works in sports sponsorship and you can follow him on Twitter here. In his first piece for Sportingintelligence, he examines the impact of the Arab Spring on the performance of the Libyan national football […]

By Steve Menary 16 January 2012 FIFA’s former director of international relations Jérôme Champagne has entered the debate over the future governance of the world body by sending a detailed assessment of the problems facing the game and potential remedies to all 208 members. A former French diplomat, member of the 1998 World Cup organising […]

* This exclusive feature from Issue Three of The Blizzard was offered to SportingIntelligence by the collective of writers at The Blizzard. To read more brilliant and original work from the same collective download Issue Three of The Blizzard which is out now on a pay-what-you-like basis . By Steve Menary 6 December 2011 Going by […]

THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the issue of corruption in sport. […]

By Alex Miller at Leaders in Football, London 6 October 2011 Former top referee Pierluigi Collina has warned that the issue of match fixing was “the future of football” and that everybody associated with the sport had to act to look after the game. On the day that Wayne Rooney’s father and uncle were arrested […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 July 2011 From badly behaved millionaire players to corruption in the corridors of power, football has attracted headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years. But next Saturday, 6 August, a small team owned by its fans in south London will embark on […]