With the exception of Swedish national team captain Jonas Thern, these were of inferior quality to the Laudrup and Gasgoignes. Expensively acquired “Carlos Kickaballs,” to use former Spurs chairman Alan Sugar’s phrase describing foreign journeymen...

Venables, normally so loquacious, suddenly became coy. At that stage he was an outsider for the job because of his problems with Alan Sugar, and when Graham Taylor quit a week later, Venables was a 25-1 outsider behind the likes of Steve Coppell, Mike...

Tim Campbell, winner of the first series of Lord Alan Sugar’s reality employee hunt, was awarded an MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace yesterday for his services to enterprise culture. Now the boss of a successful phone company, Tim left his...

Hall is honoured for both of these reasons. 1 December Eggheads crack C J de Mooi, the curly-haired one, has announced he's leaving Eggheads. In a brief statement, he said "I'm acting full time now and that's what I want to pursue." 16 November...

Campbell, the first winner of 'The Apprentice', has been made an MBE and his former boss Lord Alan Sugar says he's thrilled for him. Former 'Apprentice' winner Tim Campbell has been made an MBE. The businessman won the first ever series of the BBC One...

I’m not sure about us disliking material success in this country. There isn’t much criticism of billionaires such as Richard Branson, Alan Sugar or Ken Morrison. It is however considered fine to say the most appalling things about the rich in general,...