By Nick Harris 3 March 2010 The global publicity attracted by yesterday’s news that the Red Knight group have started exploratory talks to raise money to try to buy Manchester United has helped membership of the Manchester United Supporters’ Trust (MUST) to more than double, and has now smashed through the 100,000 barrier. A month […]
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Exclusive: The Red Knights’ dream scenario for United ownership, in detail
By Nick Harris EXCLUSIVE 2 March 2010 Key details of a fledgling plan by a group of super-rich “Red Knights” to buy Manchester United can be revealed today by sportingintelligence, which has also been told by a source at the heart of the scheme: “This is the very early stages of something. There won’t be […]
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Premier League debt falls £1.1bn … not that you’ll hear about it
By Nick Harris 28 February 2010 The combined debts of the Premier League’s clubs have fallen by £1.1bn in the past two years, although you wouldn’t know it from reading this in The Guardian, or this in The Independent, or this in The Times, or this in The Telegraph – Britain’s four major “quality” newspapers […]
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Revealed: upwardly mobile Arsenal to leapfrog Chelsea in Deloitte’s world Rich List
By Nick Harris 28 February 2010 Arsenal’s ongoing elevation within the ranks of European football’s financial superpowers will be underlined this week when they are named as one of the top five clubs in Deloitte’s annual ‘Rich List’ of the world’s biggest 20 clubs by revenue. The report is due out on Tuesday. Arsenal, whose win […]
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McLeish hangs on for victories amid glut of big-margin wins
By Brian Sears 26 February 2010 Never before in Premier League history have there been so many “big cushion” wins, and by that I mean wins by three clear goals or more. Already this season there have been 50 of them altogether among 196 wins by all teams combined. In the whole of last season […]
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‘Prince William is a Villa fan and there’s nothing wrong with that. We can’t all support the best teams, can we?’
By Andy Cole 26 February 2010 At a time when too many footballers attract too many headlines for the wrong reasons, please note that many do good work too. I accept that’s not as sexy, especially for the tabloid headline writers, as taking a wayward player and crucifying him for behaviour that is the stuff […]
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Tueart’s “once in blue moon” overhead kick in ’76 voted best goal in League Cup history
25 February 2010 Manchester City fans don’t have much cup joy to ponder today after last night’s FA Cup defeat to Stoke, but they still have their memories of happier days, and now one of them, Dennis Tueart’s spectacular winning goal against Newcastle United in the 1976 League Cup final, has been voted the greatest moment […]
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‘The transfer fee for Poland’s World Cup captain included a photocopier, some medical tools and some dollars’
* 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 […]
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Chelsea’s record on the line as Ancelotti dances with Wolves
By Brian Sears 19 February 2010 Occasionally in this life as a statistician, you unearth a statistical gem so lovely that you want to pop it into your anorak pocket, go for a stroll around town in the splendid late-winter sunshine, and share it with everyone you meet. Today, dear readers, is such a day. […]
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‘The kiss’n’tell is prostitution, part of a football industry full of hangers-on and parasites’
By Andy Cole 19 February 2010 Snowboarding, skiing, motorbikes, casual texting, impromptu nights out and all manner of other activities that “ordinary” people do without thinking have one thing in common for a professional footballer: they’re out of bounds unless you want to risk getting yourself into serious trouble. It’s a pertinent subject during a […]
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