By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 January 2012 The trial of Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric continues into a second week today at Southwark Crown Court. Proceedings are being covered by the full range of national media, and if you want regular ‘live’ updates too, then among others who have […]

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 controversial BOA by-law hearing. x […]

By Sportingintelligence 23 January 2012 SERENA Williams, eliminated from the Australian Open on Monday after losing her fourth-round match against Ekaterina Makarova in straight sets, has today been revealed at the most heavily fined player in women’s tennis. The 30-year-old American, who has won 13 Grand Slam singles titles (five Australian Opens, one French Open, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 January 2012 A new demographic study of European football, published today by the CIES Football Observatory in Switzerland, contains detailed analysis of 12,410 footballers at 500 clubs in the top divisions of 33 European countries, reporting among other things how the Russian Premier League […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 January 2012 The 20 clubs in England’s Premier League are using more ‘club-trained’ players in the 2011-12 season than their counterparts in the top division of Germany’s Bundesliga, a new study shows. Given that the Premier League is sometimes criticised as a cash-rich league […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 January 2012 Clubs in the Russian Premier League, a 16-team division awash with plutocratic ‘new money’, especially from the oil sector, are rapidly closing the gap in quality between themselves and leading clubs from the top divisions in Europe’s ‘big five’ leagues, according to […]

By Sportingintelligence 22 January 2012 The ongoing crisis surrounding the ownership of Blackburn Rovers by the Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s is the focus today (22 January) of a huge four-page feature in the Sunday edition of the Economic Times of India – the most respected title in its field. The paper’s editor has deemed it […]

By Brian Sears 19 January 2012 In the 19 completed Premier League seasons Tottenham have never won more than seven games away from White Hart Lane in any one league campaign. This season they have already won six of their 10 games on the road. Their next away challenge is Sunday’s journey to Manchester City. Manchester […]

By Sportingintelligence 18 January 2012 With the role of agents under constant scrutiny by the Football Association, not least at Blackburn Rovers since January 2011 (see story here), below are the official numbers relating to agents’ fees by club in the Premier League in the past two years, as released by the League in November […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 16 January 2012 While no evidence has yet been found of FA rule-breaking at Blackburn Rovers, Sportingingelligence has learned that the Football Association have had a ‘watching brief’ on the club since January 2011 and have taken a particular interest in the activities of agents. […]