By Alex Miller and Nick Harris 29 July 2010 NB: This story has been amended on 13 August 2010 due to Wolves informing us their current shirt deal is worth £1.1m for the 2010-11 season, not £400,000 as originally reported. We apologise for the earlier error. The Premier League’s 20 clubs for the 2010-11 season […]
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Put your shirt on it: Liverpool and Manchester United surging ahead in sponsor stakes
By Alex Miller 29 July 2010 As our exclusive table below shows, the Premier League has once again defied the wider economic climate, with a raft of teams improving the terms of their shirt sponsorship deals for the coming season, to set new financial records, as this website reveals today here. Before a ball has […]
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British-skippered rowers set to smash 114-year-old trans-Atlantic record
By Nick Harris 29 July 2010 A four-man rowing crew, skippered by a Scotsman, Leven Brown, remain on course today to smash a 114-year-old record for rowing across the Atlantic from the US to the UK. At 6am this morning, the quartet were aboard their 23-feet boat, Artemis Investments, traveling at 2.71 knots off the […]
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ELEANOR PRESTON: ‘Whether Sven is a genius or a blagger is one of the great pub discussions, along with how a man who looks like Mr Burns from the Simpsons was able to pull Ulrik(kaka) Johnson’
By Eleanor Preston 10 July 2010 Now that South West London has waved a reluctant goodbye to Roy “Woy” Hodgson, Fulham fans are left with a confusing mixture of gratitude for the work he did and deep regret at losing him to Liverpool. We are also left with the vexing problem of who on earth […]
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Revealed: How the fixture computer dislikes Liverpool, and favours Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea
By Brian Sears 18 June 2010 Yesterday’s release of the fixture list for the 2010-11 season prompted a quick examination of opening-day matches in the Premier League since the top division was revamped in 1992-93, and reveals an anti-Liverpool bias and a disproportionate number of home games for the other three “big four” sides. As […]
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ANDY COLE: ‘All credit to Germany, flag bearers for the beautiful game in the World Cup’s first week’
** By Andy Cole 17 June 2010 Every team has now played at least one match at the World Cup and only one nation has really impressed me: Germany. It’s not just the goals they scored against Australia – and we’re all drawn to goals – but the way they went about their business in […]
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ANALYSIS: England’s David James the oldest player in South Africa
By Pete Wilson 7 June 2010 Whether David James actually gets to play a game at the World Cup remains to be seen – he was unused in today’s 3-0 friendly win over the Platinum Stars – but England’s goalkeeper is the oldest player involved in any squad at the tournament. Sportingintelligence‘s resident statistician Brian […]
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Crews prepare for non-stop round-Britain rowing race
By Keira Daley 27 May 2010 Two rowing teams – an all-male crew of four and an all-female crew of four – will set off next Tuesday from Tower Bridge in London in an attempt to row non-stop, without assistance, on a 2,010-mile course around mainland Great Britain. The event, sponsored by Virgin, is a precursor […]
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Thrills now, spills later as Blackpool ride to 1970s high
By Brian Sears 24 May 2010 . Blackpool are setting new standards for ‘small fish in big ponds’ as they ascend to the Premier League. Their ground capacity will be the smallest of any of the 44 clubs to have been members of that top division, and their average following this season at Bloomfield Road […]
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‘We hadn’t come this far to look like idiots, as other Brits had done on the same court in years past’
* KEN SKUPSKI is one of Britain’s best tennis players, a doubles specialist with 20 titles to his name whose breakthrough season was 2009, when he won twice at ATP events. Born in north-west England, he studied at Louisiana State University. His abiding passion away from the court is supporting Liverpool. Here in his debut […]
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