Sport
Lifting the lid on Fergie's fortune
Sport
Written by Peter Warren   
Bought and published by the London Evening Standard, July 21, 2003

MANCHESTER United boss Sir Alex Ferguson looks set to nudge up the league table of the rich and famous following news of his signing with property investment house Active Asset Investment Management. Currently languishing at number 976 in the Sunday Times rich list on £30m, Ferguson could net substantial sums from his fronting of the investment vehicle run by City whizz-kid Mark Tagliaferri and secretive property developer Robert Whitton, say experts on brand sponsorship.

 
Handheld video replays for referees
Sport
Written by Peter Warren   
The post match bar stories are legion, whether it be rugby or football, according to the fans, the referee ruined the game.

But now the Scottish arm of a US electronics company claims to have developed a portable hand held device that could once, and for all silence the tap-room chatter and banish forever such infamous incidents as the Dundee ‘phantom goal’ against Partick Thistle when Les Mottram waved play on after the ball rebounded out of the net after hitting a stanchion.
 
Sports fans get spy in the stadium system
Sport
Written by Peter Warren   
Published Scotland on Sunday

The thrill of the football stadium could soon be brought to the living room couch via the internet. Called telepresence by its developers Perceptual Robotics, the technology already being installed at major baseball stadiums in the US, allows viewers with an internet connection to take live snapshots of great sporting events from any place in the stadium.