June 8th, 2009
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Overstating and understating Liverpool’s financial situation
When the latest figures were released for Liverpool the £42.6m loss that Kop Holdings Ltd made last year did not make especially good reading for the club and its owners. However, what followed was an intriguing, if highly predictable, series of overreactions to the news. First off was the Sun, who on Friday led with [...]
Risible rumour of the day: Shearer to West Brom
Well, the headline rather says it all, doesn’t it? Either the News of the World have caught wind of an extraordinary exclusive, or they’re playing a game of ’say stuff’. Let’s read on, and see why they think that Alan Shearer is going to be the manager of West Brom:
ALAN SHEARER is ready to quit Newcastle [...]
Ecclestone’s predictable frustration with ‘predictable’ F1 season
Jenson Button won the Turkish GP on Sunday to make it six out of seven so far this year, and build up a 26 point lead at the top of F1 come the start of the British GP in just under a fortnight. Good news for him, but apparently not so positive for the President [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend - Federer, Woods, and England Cricket
The Federer legacy
Was there a situation whereby winning 13 Grand Slam titles could be the story of what might have been? Roger Federer, who has spent most of the first decade of the millennium proving to the world that he’s really quite good at tennis, has finally found a way to triumph at the French Open. [...]