Alex Thomson
Banning journalists? It’s time for football clubs to grow up
Should football clubs be allowed to ban reporters from news conferences? Alex Thomson argues it’s time to make a stand.
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Alex Thomson
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Keme Nzerem
Can Sunderland justify appointing Di Canio?
Sunderland FC is one of the biggest clubs in the world, in the money leagues. Which is why it can afford brave brand decisions. But how will the appointment of Paolo Di Canio wash with its social justice partners?
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Keme Nzerem
Spain’s Dr Fuentes doping scandal: more surprises in store?
The tale Dr Eufemiano Fuentes has been full of twists and turns. Can there be more unwelcome revelations still to come?
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Keme Nzerem
Manchester United v Real Madrid: will the world stop tonight?
The Champions League clash between Manchester United and Real Madrid is one of football’s most glamorous fixtures – but will, as Jose Mourinho says, the “world stop”?
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Alex Thomson
Rangers’ player payments ‘not cheating’
Alex Thomson asks if football can now get back in the spotlight as the Nimmo-Smith independent commission clears Glasgow Rangers of cheating.
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Alex Thomson
Nimmo-Smith report: could titles be stripped from Rangers?
The Nimmo-Smith report could exonerate Rangers’ over player payments, or lead to a range of sanctions ranging from titles being stripped to a “slap over the wrist with a limp lettuce leaf”
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Keme Nzerem
Top sports stars ‘seen at Spanish doping clinic’
Could a change at the top in Spanish politics lead to more revelations over a widespread sports doping scandal?
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Keme Nzerem
Samba boys take on England in football’s friendliest friendly
Rainy old England may have defined the rules of football for all to enjoy, but it is the sun-kissed beaches of Brazil that long ago inherited the mantle of football’s spiritual home.
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Alex Thomson
HMRC and the ‘Big Tax Case’: no victory yet except for the lawyers
With rumblings of discontent over the relationship between HMRC and the media, Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at the latest status of the Rangers “Big Tax Case”.
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Alex Thomson
After Rangers, English football warned: put your house in order
After the Rangers debacle, MPs tell English football it is time to put its own house in order – and stop taking financial risks that threaten the future of the game.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: were they cheating football, and the taxman?
I leave shortly, once more, for a city rather drier and a good deal more violent than Glasgow. But before I do let me leave you with the question – were Rangers cheating?
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Alex Thomson
The man who ‘saved my life’ at Hillsborough
Alex Thomson talks to a Liverpool football fan caught up in the events at Hillsborough in 1989: he survived the crush that led to the deaths of 96 people, thanks to a man who helped him scale a wall.
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: Division three?
“But do not rule out attempts – against all odds and against an overwhelming D3 mandate – by the SPL to try just this.”
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Alex Thomson
Rangers: passion and commitment above all reason
So it is that I find myself covering a venerable Scottish sporting institution, which has caused disappointment, heartache and agony to countless people in recent times and in which the central recurring name is Murray, blogs Alex Thomson.
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Alex Thomson
Potential conflicts of interest at the heart of Scottish football
Channel 4 News has a Companies House list of Rangers shareholders for 2008 and 2010. They prove, for instance, that the current Airdrie chairman and president of the Scottish Football League, James William Ballantyne, had 568 Rangers shares in 2008 when chairman of Airdrie.