Sports Law

Wednesday evening saw team Blacks (not the Silver Fern lot from the Southern Hemisphere) take part in the annual Wooden Spoon mixed touch rugby tournament at Moortown RFC. The evening was put on by the Charity Wooden Spoon to help raise money for mentally, physically disadvantaged children. With the real England squad heading into a […]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” George Santayana, Philosopher The £1.5m loaned to Leeds United by Massimo Cellino last week is a further addition to the list of liabilities which demonstrate that the Whites owe three of the parties that have attempted to purchase a controlling stake of the club […]

John Hartson was quoted recently that his manager whilst at Celtic Martin O’Neill had said that even the best managers are only three or four games away from the sack. There has been a growing trend that has seen Malky Mackay, Steve Clarke and most recently Brian Laudrup lose their positions as managers of Cardiff […]

The recent arrest of six men by the National Crime Agency over match fixing allegations has taken the football headlines from the back of the newspapers to the front pages. Ex-Premier League player Delroy Facey is the most notable of those alleged and his picture is being widely used in many press articles. So what […]

“The Asian build is not that of a footballer…it may well be Asian ingredients in food, or the nutrition they intake, [but it is] not ideal for  building up a physical frame” (the then Sheffield United manager Dave Basset, BBC TV 1995). The quote above sparked a report published in 1996 by Jas Bains and […]

The world’s greatest free sporting event will be coming right through our county’s cities, towns and villages. The Grand Depart of the 101st edition of the Tour De France will take place on 5 July 2014 with cyclists embarking on the journey from right here in Leeds. It is the first time since 2007 that […]

Hopefully it was with a strong sense of irony that the ATP /WTA  noticed that whilst the tennis ‘story’ of the second half of last year was Rafa Nadal’s serious knee injuries (through years of wear and tear on the Tour) that was simply the tip of the iceberg when considering the full list of […]

The recent decision by the Super League  clubs at their annual general meeting was that the Super League will revert to 12 teams for the start of the 2015 season. The final decision on the format of the League structure will be made at an extraordinary general meeting next month. The two options to be […]

It is that time of the season again when the Premiership trap door is looming for a number of clubs who find themselves in the bottom half of the table. QPR and Reading’s fate has already been sealed with both teams now gearing themselves for life in the Championship next season. Sunderland FC and Newcastle […]

The end of season is closing in on the beautiful game and the Football League crescendo has never been as tense as this. We take a look at the mixed fortunes of some of the Yorkshire Clubs in the mix. As our sports consultant John Hendrie says in a recent Yorkshire Post article, it has […]

Friday 5 April saw the first outing for the Blacks Touch Rugby Elite in the Sue Ryder Wheatfields  Touch Rugby Tournament. The team comprised Glen Salt, Geoff Cunningham, Tom Moyes, Andy Boyde, Nick Dyson, Dave Paterson and two of Dave’s ‘ringers’ Alex and Chris. The game was played at Wellington Place – Leeds’ answer to London’s […]

Appeal court judges in Scotland have stunned the golf industry by announcing that a golf club must pay a substantially higher proportion of damages than had been previously ruled, after a golfer lost his eye when he was hit by a ball. Niddry Castle Golf Club in Scotland was, in 2011, ordered to pay nearly […]