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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 5d
Qualifying for 2026 WC concludes across Africa this week. In this brilliant piece, with Ghana as a case study, Howard Akumiah & James Corbett explore how economics & exploitation have prevented an African World Cup winner and will in the future. sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/ghanas-bro...
Ghana's broken football dreams: why an African nation will never win the World Cup
2026 World Cup qualifying concludes across Africa this week, and with Ghana as a case study, a new investigation says economics and exploitation hold Africa back
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 5d
Qualifying for 2026 WC concludes across Africa this week. In this brilliant piece, with Ghana as a case study, Howard Akumiah & James Corbett explore how economics & exploitation have prevented an African World Cup winner and will in the future. sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/ghanas-bro...
Ghana's broken football dreams: why an African nation will never win the World Cup
2026 World Cup qualifying concludes across Africa this week, and with Ghana as a case study, a new investigation says economics and exploitation hold Africa back
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 7d
Rangers sack Russell Martin. From August: a deep dive into what his time at Saints means for his Rangers future (ie this was inevitable). sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/russell-ma...
Russell Martin: a deep dive into what his time at Saints means for his Rangers future
The 39-year-old former defender got Southampton promoted from the Championship to the Premier League, then his team imploded and he got sacked. What now at Ibrox?
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 10d
Venky's became the first Indian owners of a Premier League club, Blackburn Rovers, 15 years ago next month. It was a wild story, and still is sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/the-moment...
The moment in time when the chance to be a Premier League CEO slipped by ...
Among many strange episodes investigating the owners of Premier League football clubs, one story took an unexpected turn and I almost found myself in charge
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 10d
Venky's became the first Indian owners of a Premier League club, Blackburn Rovers, 15 years ago next month. It was a wild story, and still is sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/the-moment...
The moment in time when the chance to be a Premier League CEO slipped by ...
Among many strange episodes investigating the owners of Premier League football clubs, one story took an unexpected turn and I almost found myself in charge
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 16d
Hugely gratifying to get this kind of feedback from a Liverpool fan about this story.
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Jim Kogutkiewicz @jimmyfk.bsky.social · 16d
This is worth the trip down memory lane, and if it’s before your time as a fan, you gotta check it out. A bizarre mini chapter of Liverpool’s 21st century history.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 17d
How conman Kenny Huang nearly bought Liverpool, then scammed Hollywood
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How conman Huang nearly bought Liverpool, then scammed Hollywood
15 years ago Kenny Huang, supposedly a genius Chinese entrepreneur but actually a lying conman, nearly bought LFC. I stopped him. Here's how, and what he did next.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 17d
How conman Kenny Huang nearly bought Liverpool, then scammed Hollywood
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How conman Huang nearly bought Liverpool, then scammed Hollywood
15 years ago Kenny Huang, supposedly a genius Chinese entrepreneur but actually a lying conman, nearly bought LFC. I stopped him. Here's how, and what he did next.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 17d
How conman Kenny Huang nearly bought Liverpool, then scammed Hollywood
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How conman Huang nearly bought Liverpool, then scammed Hollywood
15 years ago Kenny Huang, supposedly a genius Chinese entrepreneur but actually a lying conman, nearly bought LFC. I stopped him. Here's how, and what he did next.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 24d
The costliest 100 squads in world football today, and insights into the way football functions, or more often doesn’t.
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ANALYSIS: Chelsea No1 in a new list of the most expensive squads in global football
Research shows the 100 most expensively assembled squads in the world have six Premier League teams at the top. Today: analysis, and manager 'life expectancy'.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 24d
The costliest 100 squads in world football today, and insights into the way football functions, or more often doesn’t.
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ANALYSIS: Chelsea No1 in a new list of the most expensive squads in global football
Research shows the 100 most expensively assembled squads in the world have six Premier League teams at the top. Today: analysis, and manager 'life expectancy'.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 25d
Liverpool's late-show winning record this season is RIDICULOUS, with winners in the PL in the 80th min, 100th min, 83rd min and 95th min, and now tonight, in their first Champions League match, in the 92nd minute.

"Can they score? They always score!"
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 25d
Yes it will definitely have been fun, MB. My concern for them is they now potentially need 100s of millions to actually get to the PL, and therefore perhaps a billionaire, all while facing spending and loss restrictions in the Championship.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · 25d
As rumours of Phil Parkinson's demise at Wrexham intensify, re-upping this piece from April about "disruptor" clubs and their almost inevitable chances of failure.
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Wrexham, exemplar of the 'disruptor' clubs, could fail as easily as the rest surely will
Hollywood glitz has propelled the Welsh club from the non-league to the cusp of the Championship and a shot at the Premier League. But the future could be precarious.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Sep 12
Haven't enjoyed writing a piece this much for a long time. Great story. And will be a great story in this season's Champions League. The miracle of Bodø/Glimt sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/the-miracl...
The miracle of Bodø/Glimt & what Scottish clubs can learn from a fellow small nation
Scotland and Norway have populations of about 5.5m people, and long football histories and deep passion for the game. Why does one punch way above its weight?
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Sep 12
The miracle of Bodø/Glimt & what other clubs can learn, not least in Scotland, a country with the same population as Norway sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/the-miracl...
The miracle of Bodø/Glimt & what Scottish clubs can learn from a fellow small nation
Scotland and Norway have populations of about 5.5m people, and long football histories and deep passion for the game. Why does one punch way about its weight?
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Sep 12
The miracle of Bodø/Glimt & what other clubs can learn, not least in Scotland, a country with the same population as Norway sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/the-miracl...
The miracle of Bodø/Glimt & what Scottish clubs can learn from a fellow small nation
Scotland and Norway have populations of about 5.5m people, and long football histories and deep passion for the game. Why does one punch way about its weight?
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Sep 2
Premier League clubs obliterate summer spending record in £3bn+ splurge on talent
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Premier League clubs obliterate summer spending record in £3bn+ splurge on talent
England's top-flight clubs have spent more money, gross, on new players this window than the other 'Big 5' leagues in Italy, Germany, Spain and France combined
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Sep 1
Prem League transfer spending for summer 2025 IS definitely going to blast past £3bn gross, smashing summer 2023 record to smithereens. Will prob post a club-by-club breakdown, plus gross and net spend tomorrow; plus comparisons with other Big 5. sportingintelligence832.substack.com
Sporting Intelligence | Nick Harris | Substack
Following the money, uncovering corruption, and diving into the data to tell the stories that matter. Click to read Sporting Intelligence, by Nick Harris, a Substack publication with tens of thousands...
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Aug 29
REVEALED: an inside story of a doping probe into multiple TDF winner Froome
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REVEALED: an inside story of a doping probe into multiple TDF winner Froome
Chris Froome won the Tour de France 4 times, and is back in the news after a serious accident. Here's a story about him being uniquely co-operative in a doping probe.
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Aug 29
REVEALED: an inside story of a doping probe into multiple TDF winner Froome
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REVEALED: an inside story of a doping probe into multiple TDF winner Froome
Chris Froome won the Tour de France 4 times, and is back in the news after a serious accident. Here's a story about him being uniquely co-operative in a doping probe.
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Sam Kunti @samindrakunti.bsky.social · Aug 28
Samuel Eto'o included details of his personal bank account on invoices for match fees of Cameroon's national team.

A story on the Fecafoot president.

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EXCLUSIVE: Cameroon legend Eto'o facing US probe for fraud after 'stealing' $600k
The three-times Champions League winner and all-time top scorer in the history of AFCON has a troubling history as a football administrator, and faces new allegations
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Aug 27
EXCLUSIVE: Cameroon legend Eto'o facing US probe for fraud after 'stealing' $600k (With @samindrakunti.bsky.social sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Cameroon legend Eto'o facing US probe for fraud after 'stealing' $600k
The three-times Champions League winner and all-time top scorer in the history of AFCON has a troubling history as a football administrator, and faces new allegations
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Aug 27
EXCLUSIVE: Cameroon legend Eto'o facing US probe for fraud after 'stealing' $600k (With @samindrakunti.bsky.social sportingintelligence832.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Cameroon legend Eto'o facing US probe for fraud after 'stealing' $600k
The three-times Champions League winner and all-time top scorer in the history of AFCON has a troubling history as a football administrator, and faces new allegations
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Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social · Aug 22
I remember when Indy Kaila was just a toddler.(S)he used to follow me (and still does I think). Fascinating piece.
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Rory Smith @rorysmith.bsky.social · Aug 22
I’d been fascinated by a mystery all summer. It was an itch I had to scratch. A question burning in my brain.

Was…was Indy Kaila now a legitimate news source?

An investigation into the man/men/myth legend who has dominated this transfer (gossip) window. observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...
The myth and mystery of Indy Kaila: the X account that ‘w...
For 13 years an anonymous social media account has posted transfer gossip to the delight – and despair – of fans
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