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Portsmouth FC , who have debts of somewhere around £60m, have become the first ever Premier League club to enter administration. The club will be docked nine points as a result and face almost certain relegation to the Championship – as if that wasnt already on the cards already, being 8 points from safety. The [...]

Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp was accused yesterday of an estimated £40,000 tax evasion. The 62-year-old was charged with two counts of cheating the public revenue. The charges concern two payments, totalling 295,000 US dollars  from former Portsmouth  chairman Milan Mandaric to Redknapp, allegedly evading tax and National Insurance contributions. Redknapp’s arrest was part of [...]