Football

By Nick Harris 12 April 2010 Liverpool’s owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett will announce in the next few days that they have appointed investment bank Barclays Capital to find a “100 per cent buyer” to take the club off their hands, but have been warned by advisors that their price tag of £600m is […]

By Nick Harris 12 April 2010 Portsmouth will make a minimum of £2.2m from prize money and payments from their sponsors as a result of winning yesterday’s FA Cup semi-final, the club’s administrator, Andrew Andronikou, has told sportingintelligence today, and that figure will rise to £3.2m if they beat Chelsea in the final. This income […]

By Pete Wilson 9 April Chelsea’s Frank Lampard has spoken about how gratifying it was to thrash Aston Villa 7-1 in the Premier League recently, calling the result a “kick up the bum” for Martin O’Neill’s side ahead of this weekend’s FA Cup semi-final between the two clubs. In a message that is sure to […]

By Nick Harris 8 April 2010 The failure of England’s leading football clubs to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League was a predictable consequence of the declining value of the pound, and not a sporting aberration, according to a leading Cambridge academic. Lionel Page, a Frenchman resident in England, is a behavioural economist and […]

By Nick Harris 7 April 2010 If footballers with South Asian heritage were proportionately represented in the English game, there would be around 125 pros with sub-Continental backgrounds. In fact there are seven, and even that lowly figure is an all-time high. So as Chelsea today launched their second ‘Search for an Asian Soccer Star’ […]

By Nick Harris 7 April 2010 Liverpool’s search for new investment is back to square one after confirmation that the Rhone Group has walked away from a potential £100m deal to take a 40 per cent stake in the club following a luke warm response to their offer from the club’s owners, Tom Hicks and […]

By Nick Harris 2 April 2010 Average pay across America’s NFL differs less between its richest and poorest teams than in any other major sports league in the world, according to sportingintelligence’s Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries, published today. The study calculates pay at more than 200 teams across 10 leagues including in the […]

By Nick Harris 1 April 2010 Liverpool fans opposed to their club’s ownership by Tom Hicks and George Gillett have written to the Premier League urging an investigation into the duo’s historic record in business and sports club ownership, citing episodes of historic bankruptcy, prior involvement in a failed football club, and current debt to […]

By Nick Harris 31 March 2010 EXCLUSIVE The prospective saviours and owners of Crystal Palace are “high net worth” individuals but have a “pragmatic” view to club ownership, according to Palace’s administrator, Brendan Guilfoyle, who has told sportingintelligence this afternoon they would not be considering investing in a “risky” sector such as football if they […]

By Nick Harris 31 March 2010 The Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Scudamore, has lambasted the decision by Ofcom, the UK communications regular, to force BSkyB to offers its sports channels to rivals at cheaper prices, fixed by Ofcom. Ofcom’s decision can be seen in detail on its website, where the key point is: “Ofcom […]