By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 March 2012 Blackpool’s chairman Karl Oyston has today attempted to defend paying £11m to his father Owen Oyston, who is also the club’s majority shareholder, for being a director in the season Blackpool were relegated from the Premier League. The full story about the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 August 2011  Arsenal would have been runners-up in the Premier League last season and Blackpool wouldn’t have been relegated if match officials hadn’t made mistakes. (See table at bottom). These are the headline findings from extensive new research that re-examined 713 ‘significant’ incidents – […]

By Brian Sears 27 May 2011 When their relegation was confirmed last Sunday, Blackpool became the 26th side in the Premier League’s history to be relegated in the first season after coming up from the Championship. In this regard, they are ‘One-season wonders’ (OSWs), and though it won’t be much solace to them, their 39 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 May 2011 Blackpool’s tangerine dream turned into a nightmare with relegation on Sunday but they were the best value team in the Premier League in the 2010-11 season, according to an analysis by sportingintelligence of cost per point in wages. The Lancashire Oranjie spent […]

By Brian Sears 19 May 2011 To paraphrase Ol’ Blue Eyes: ‘And now, the end is near, the season takes its final curtain. But who, supporters ask, supporters fear, is down for certain?’ As a dispassionate statistician, it’s clear that Manchester United generally have a good final day in the Premier League. We’ve looked at […]

By Sportingintelligence 16 May 2011 An English team will play in the Europa League next season through Uefa’s Fair Play scheme, with Fulham in pole position because Blackpool’s record has been marred by Ian Holloway’s constant chatter at the fourth official during matches. Uefa have awarded three places into the qualifying rounds of the 2011-12 […]

By Brian Sears 4 March 2011 In this, the 19th season of the Premier League, Manchester United hope to reach another 19 – league titles in English football history. That would take them one past Liverpool’s all-time 18, and that is one reason that this weekend’s game at Anfield between the two old rivals is […]

By Brian Sears 4 March 2011 There are 103 games remaining in this 19th season of the Premier League and an average of three goals per game would see a record level of goals in England’s revamped top flight. Overall so far this season the rate works out at 2.74 goals per game, which if maintained season-long […]

By Brian Sears 7 February 2011 The Premier League’s 41-goal Saturday was a record for the 20-team division, but other intriguing stats can be found in two specific score lines: Everton’s 5-3 win over Blackpool, and Newcastle’s 4-4 draw with Arsenal. This was the first time in the Premier League that both these eight-goal thriller […]

By Nick Harris 8 December 2010 Charlie Adam, Blackpool’s best player, won his recent tribunal hearing against his own club over a £25,000 bonus row but won’t emerge from the episode with much, if any, financial benefit, sportingintelligence can reveal. His ‘winnings’ have mostly been spent on fees and expenses, including a costly QC. The […]