By Brian Sears 12 October 2010 The international break provides an opportunity to take stock of the multinational melting pot that is the Premier League, and late last week we presented snapshots of the number of international players by club, and a breakdown of the 60 nations represented by full internationals in the Premier League […]
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The lowdown on Peter Lim, Liverpool’s back-up suitor worth £1bn
By Nick Harris 11 October 2010 The search for the identity of the Asian bidder who pushed New England Sports Ventures close in the race to seal a deal to buy Liverpool ended with Robert Peston’s report on the BBC earlier today. Peston’s scoop named him as Peter Lim, a Singapore businessman with a fortune […]
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Premier League melting pot: Internationals from 60 nations (and 60 England internationals) have played in 2010-11 season so far
By Brian Sears and Nick Harris 8 October 2010 The Premier League remains global football’s major melting pot, and research by sportingintelligence into the make-up us this season’s teams so far only emphasises the point. Among the players involved in games so far in the 2010-11 season, there have been full internationals representing 60 different […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Dr Rogan Taylor calls on NESV to agree £50m fans’ stake at Liverpool
By Alex Miller at the Leaders in Football Conference, London 7 October 2010 Dr Rogan Taylor, the University of Liverpool academic who founded the ‘Share Liverpool’ scheme in 2008 to raise cash for a fan-led buyout at Anfield, has told sportingintelligence today that the potential new owners of the club, New England Sports Ventures, must […]
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REVEALED: Tottenham’s Gareth Bale is the world’s most in-demand footballer (followed by Chelsea’s Drogba, Newcastle’s Carroll and United’s Rooney)
By Nick Harris 1 September 2010 The Premier League’s official fantasy football game has registered more than two million users in more than 200 countries already this season to cement its place as most popular fantasy football (soccer) game in history, according to an analysis of users of the League’s website. The country with the […]
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Fifa inspectors praise 2018 bid, send best to PM, SamCam and Flo-Ro Endellion
By Nick Harris 26 August 2010 Fifa’s inspection of England’s proposed facilities for the 2018 World Cup ended today in praise, and with reassurance that not seeing a Premier League game and not getting to meet the Prime Minister would not harm England’s chances of staging the event. David Cameron is on holiday, and his […]
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Drogba heads to African World Cup on back of historic goal feat at Chelsea
By Brian Sears 1 June 2010 If an African nation is to win the 2010 World Cup in the first edition of the tournament to be staged on African soil, then possibly the Ivory Coast will be the team to do it. The bookmakers make Sven Goran Eriksson’s ‘Les Elephants’ the favourites among the African […]
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Ken Loach to make keynote speech at ‘winds of change’ conference on fan ownership
By Nick Harris 21 May 2010 The award-winning film director and activist Ken Loach is to give the keynote address at a Supporters Direct (SD) conference next month where football fans will discuss proposals that could allow wider fan ownership and more fan influence in the running of clubs. Loach, 73, whose new film ‘Route […]
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‘As we ate, George gave me a morsel of news that proved the beginning of the end’
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) […]
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‘If Chelsea don’t win the title now, they should be lined up and shot’
By Andy Cole 7 May 2010 Peter Crouch capped a fantastic season for Tottenham on Wednesday with the goal that takes Spurs into the Champions League for the first time. We can assume Crouch is a certainty for Fabio Capello’s England squad for the World Cup, a subject to which we’ll return shortly. First, though, […]
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