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Picture via wonker’s Flickrstream Being a Tottenham Hotspur fan has rarely been a passport to an easy ride, but their fans must, more than ever, be wondering what the point of their devotion really is. Had a virus not overtaken the team on the verge …

Picture via manuel | MC’s Flickrstream These days the back pages of newspapers are as likely to be full of stories about anti-doping measures, sponsorship, lottery funding, event bidding, video streaming, third party player ownership and points deductions as they are about sporting events themselves …

Picture via Free-ers Flickrstream We imagine when Chelsea FC’s Performance Director agreed to talk at Birkbeck Sports Business Centre’s Seminar series tonight he did not imagine that it would be only 48 hours after club manager Luiz Felipe Scolari’s dismissal. Given that Big Phil lost …

Even in these straitened times, the UK’s thirst for professional American football appears unquenched as 70,000 tickets that were put on sale a few days ago for October’s NFL clash at Wembley have already flown into the hands of eager purchasers. It’s not too late …

“I’ll tell you something, I know what you’re thinking.” Just like his most famous character, David Tennant has made an unlikely and heroic return from physical setbacks to claim centre stage with wit and verve as he finally reveals to the West End his interpretation …

Despite Celtic protests, the pressure for Great Britain to field a football team at the London 2012 Olympics grows inexorably. World governing body FIFA are warming up on the touchline to wave the idea through to the delight of the English Football Association and FIFA’s …

Picture via wyzik’s Flickr stream under the Creative Commons Attribution licence. Characteristically bold words yesterday from Lord Coe on the vital question in most Britons’ minds regarding London 2012, which is, of course, “How can I get a ticket for the men’s 100m final?” If …

That would be great, though, wouldn’t it? If you could get newly crowned World Champion F1 driver and all round superstar in the making Lewis Hamilton to race off against triple Olympic gold medallist Chris Hoy, only Hamilton’s in a Merc and Hoy’s on his …

The first match was a landmark and the second a hard-earned consolidation, but, only a month after the dust settled on that successful evening in North London, the NFL have delighted Manchester United fans everywhere by announcing that next year’s International Series fixture at Wembley …

Here at Londonist Towers we’re not unused to receiving news of strongly branded sporting initiatives that don’t always impress us on closer inspection, but there is something that appeals to us about a “collaborative competition” recently set up by a well-known manufacturer of sports equipment …