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  • Portsmouth confirmed as first Premier League club ever to enter administration

    By Nick Harris 25 February 2010 Portsmouth will tomorrow become the first Premier League football club ever to enter administration after talks with four groups of potential buyers for the ailing south-coast club failed to make material progress ahead of a 3.30pm deadline this afternoon. The administration process is already underway and will be completed […]

  • British runner eyes record in 1,000-mile race in Athens

    By Nick Harris 24 February 2010 A British ultra-marathon runner who has entered the first 1,000-mile race to be staged anywhere in the world for seven years has told sportingintelligence he is “terrified” at what the race could do to his mind as well as his body but that he is “reasonably confident” he can […]

  • ‘The transfer fee for Poland’s World Cup captain included a photocopier, some medical tools and some dollars’

    * 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 […]

  • Insolvency experts in the wings as Portsmouth brace for landmark administration

    By Nick Harris 22 February 2010 (with 23 Feb update at the bottom) Portsmouth are bracing themselves for imminent administration as a means to stop them going out of business altogether, and sportingintelligence understands that insolvency practitioners from the chartered accountancy firm Hacker Young are on standby to handle the administration process. Pompey’s owner Balram […]

  • “Jazz” Carlin hits the right note as GB sink Germany with 2012 Games in mind

    By Nick Harris 21 February 2010 British swimmers hope to contribute significantly to the home medal tally at the 2012 London Olympics and they underlined their growing international status today by completing a two-day demolition of Germany in a head-to-head meeting in Swansea. With Jazmin Carlin the breakthrough star of the show, Britain won 25 […]

  • Premier League U-turn on Pompey sales after Fifa ‘OK’

    By Nick Harris 20 February 2010 The Premier League has made a U-turn on a decision to allow Portsmouth to sell players because of fears the south-coast club might manage to avoid administration and avoid relegation party because of a measure initially intended to ensure their very survival. Fifa, football’s world governing body, had already […]

  • Portsmouth await Fifa approval to sell players amid rivals’ doubts over fair play

    By Nick Harris 18 February 2010 Portsmouth’s application today for dispensation to sell players outside the transfer window appears likely to succeed, sportingintelligence understands. The troubled Premier League club, which has debts of £60m and faces the imminent prospect of administration, asked the League for permission to sell players to stave off threat of extinction. […]

  • Tiger Woods “to discuss past and future” on Friday

    17 February 2010 Tiger Woods will make his first appearance in public on Friday since the car crash in November that brought his well-ordered world crashing down. Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, has said the world No1 will address a group of friends, colleagues, associates and a small pool of Press representatives at Sawgrass Clubhouse in […]

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