. Every book featured in this section is included on the personal recommendation of a member of sportingintelligence‘s panel of writers and authors, to be expanded over time. Our “We say” reviewers have included only those books they count among their personal favourites and would actively encourage others to read as outstanding. A full list […]

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) […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 June 2012 As a group of Blackburn fans return to Lancashire this evening after three days of meetings in London with MPs and the FA about the plight of their club, Sportingintelligence publishes a letter, in full below, sent last week by the same […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 January 2012 AN extraordinary letter written by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner, Anuradha Desai, proves they felt helpless at the direction the club was taking as early as January last year, just a few months after the takeover by Venky’s. […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 December 2011 . This article was regularly updated until the Premier League’s 20,000th goal was scored … BUT IT’S OVER NOW PEOPLE. GO HOME .. 8.56pm. GOAL! And that’s it. Marc Albrighton of Aston Villa (v Arsenal) scored the 20,000th goal in Premier League history. Thank you and goodnight. ** Goes to […]

By Nick Harris  SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 November 2011 The untimely death at the weekend of the former cricketer and writer Peter Roebuck, who took his own life by jumping from the sixth floor of a Cape Town hotel on Saturday night, has again prompted debate about the apparently high prevalence of […]

By Nick Harris 2 June 2010 HM Revenue & Customs has started legal proceedings against the Premier League in the wake of the financial collapse of Portsmouth to try to have the so-called ‘“football creditors’ rule” (FCR) abolished. Under the rule, if a club enters administration, “football creditors” including other clubs, players and managers owed […]

By Pete Wilson 17 May 2010 Football supporters’ groups have accused the Mail on Sunday of damaging England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup by printing extracts from a covertly recorded private conversation between Lord Triesman and a former aide, Melissa Jacobs. Triesman resigned on Sunday after remarks he had made to Jacobs were […]

By Katie Nixon 27 April 2010 Steve Davis, the 52-year-old former six-times world snooker champion who shocked John Higgins in this year’s second round, has been unable to replicate that stunning form in the first session of his quarter-final against Neil Robertson, which took place this morning. Australia’s Roberston has taken a commanding 7-1 lead. […]