By Alex Miller at the Leaders in Football Conference, London 7 October 2010 Former Liverpool midfielder Danny Murphy today revealed his delight at the probability of his old club moving towards new ownership. “The club is going through turmoil, but it looks like the situation will be sorted soon. Liverpool being a force makes the […]

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 […]

By Alex Miller at the Leaders in Football Conference, London 7 October 2010 Mohamed bin Hammam, the Fifa ExCo member from Qatar and one of football’s major political figures, has said today that a lack of clear judging criteria may mean Fifa fails to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to the nations with […]

By Alex Miller at the Leaders in Football Conference, London 6 October 2010 England’s 2018 World Cup bid leader insisted today that the bid had recovered from the troubles it faced earlier in the campaign and delivered a confident assessment of the chances of winning the rights to host the tournament. Speaking at the Leaders […]

By Alex Miller 29 September 2010 The Football Association has told sportingintelligence that talks with interested parties to become the next chief sponsor of the England team – succeeding Nationwide – are “progressing well”. And despite a slew of lurid recent headlines surrounding the private lives of a number of England players, including strikers Wayne […]

By Alex Miller 31 August 2010 Manchester United and Liverpool sell more official replica football shirts, for Nike and Adidas respectively, than any other teams in the English Premier League, and both are at or close to the top of the global merchandise sales tables according to multi-year research by a leading German consultancy, released […]

By Alex Miller 31 August 2010 As sportingintelligence reports elsewhere today, a leading German sports market research company has provided us with the findings of its detailed multi-year survey into the popularity of club football shirts. The most consistent top 10 sellers, over numerous seasons, as discovered by Dr Peter Rohlmann, are as depicted below. […]

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 […]

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 […]

GLENN HYSEN was an integral part of the Liverpool team the last time they won the English league title, 20 years ago, in 1990. The manager back then was a certain Kenny Dalglish, and with ‘King Kenny’ wanting the Liverpool job again, the former Swedish international talks to Alex Miller about why the Scot should […]