Trading Statement

Sports Direct International Plc
22 November 2007

22nd November 2007



                Sports Direct International plc ("the Company")

                               Trading Statement

At the time of its AGM on 10th September 2007, the Company announced that it
remained confident that its pre-exceptional EBITDA for the full year ending 27th
April 2008 should show limited growth from the results reported for the year
ended 29th April 2007.

As England have not qualified for the 2008 European Football Championships, the
Company can no longer be confident of achieving that level of financial
performance and believes at this stage that pre-exceptional EBITDA for the
current financial year is likely to be below that achieved in the last year.

The Interim Results for the 26 weeks ended 28th October 2007 will be announced
on 19th December 2007, and the Company expects to give further guidance at that
time.

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For further information contact:

Sports Direct International
Dave Forsey, Chief Executive                                    0870 333 9400
Bob Mellors, Group Financial Director

Financial Dynamics
Jonathon Brill / Ben Foster / Andrew Dowler                     020 7831 3113




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