* 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 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 Mohammad Amir, 19, the youngest of the three Pakistan cricketers jailed last year for spot-fixing in the Lord’s Test in summer 2010, has been released from prison ‘in the last two hours’ according to sources close to the player. (Time of writing […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 SPORT England, the funding body that hands out taxpayers money to sports governing bodies, was kept in the dark over alleged breaches of the UK National Anti-Doping policy, Sportingintelligence can reveal  – meaning a governing body is continuing to receive a £28m […]

* By Sportingintelligence 1 February 2012 The documents scanned below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. UKAD is the agency that polices anti-doping in the UK. The investigation related to drug use by players at […]

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* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 The documents scanned below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. UKAD is the agency that polices anti-doping in the UK. The […]

* By Sportingintelligence 1 February 2012 The document scans below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. That related to drug use by players at Hull FC rugby league club last year. Read the latest updates elsewhere on […]

By Brian Sears 30 January 2012 I’m often saying to myself: ‘It’s a funny old game,Brian.’ Take Fulham. They go 386 Premier League games without one of their players notching a Premier League hat-trick and then Andy Johnson does it for them at home to QPR, and then just 15 games later, with timing reminiscent of London buses, […]

By Brian Sears 30 January 2012 Very early in the current English football season, we considered the freakish number of away points being accumulated across the divisions. At that stage a minority of points were being won at home. That was never going to last but with almost 60 per cent of the Premier League […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 January 2012 Blackburn Rovers’ Indian owners have made a ‘goodwill’ payment believed to be around £2m to their bankers Barclays, Sportingintelligence has learned. This money was in response to a demand from the bank that Venky’s pay £10m by 31 December 2011 to ease […]