Wednesday February 29, 2012 at 3:59pm
When Sunderland’s James McClean was called into the Republic of Ireland Squad it capped a meteoric rise for the 22-year-old. It was only on 9 August last year that he left Derry City to sign for Sunderland. Indeed, the story is even more fairytale than that. Having turned down the overtures of Peterborough to sign for The Black Cats instead it wasn’t until the 11th December that he made his debut for his new club, in a 2-1 victory over Blackburn. The match coincided with Martin O&rsq....
Tuesday February 21, 2012 at 5:10pm
Not a great surprise really, but the SFA have today announced that they will have an enquiry into just what on earth has gone wrong at Rangers. Other clubs go into administration – for example Portsmouth have gone into administration last week for the third time – and some clubs even go out of business, as Gretna did in Scotland a couple of years ago. But this is different. This is Rangers. Glasgow Rangers are one of the biggest and most recognisable clubs in the world, never mind th....
Tuesday February 14, 2012 at 12:00pm
When Harry Redknapp walked free from court last week not only did it set a chain of events in motion that saw the England Manager lose his job, it led to reports in the press that the trial itself had cost £8m. Football Business tweeted on Friday: So an £8m 5-year investigation to find that someone who was accused of fiddling tax on less than 200 grand was innocent #moneywellspent and we were far from the only ones to share those views. In fact so fierce was the outcry that the HMRC ....
Wednesday February 8, 2012 at 12:29pm
On Monday night, it probably would have been beneficial for all concerned if Luis Suarez had slipped quietly back into action after his eight game ban was completed. But it didn’t happen, did it? And it didn’t happen for two reasons. First he was booked – and in the view of many in the Football Business office he was lucky not to get sent off – for kicking Scott Parker, and second, because Kenny Dalglish decided that a matter that should have had a line drawn under it was....
Wednesday February 1, 2012 at 4:26pm
It is not for us –for all sorts of reasons – to speculate as to the guilt or otherwise of Messrs Mandaric and Redknapp. But there is one thing we can speak about, which has become common knowledge as part of the evidence is the issue of managers receiving part of the fees for selling players to other clubs. Redknapp, it emerged, received in the region of £200,000 for selling Peter Crouch to Aston Villa in 2002, and these payments are common place. They were written into his con....