. Recent months have seen some extraordinary numbers bandied around for the values of English Premier League clubs. Arsenal were rumoured...

* GAVIN FLEIG is the head of performance analysis at the reigning Premier League champions, Manchester City. He heads up a...

. By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 July 2012 There is typically a strong relationship between the size of...

* In 2009, Arsenal's manager Arsene Wenger likened being a football manager to living on a volcano: any day could be...

By Sportingintelligence 6 February 2012 The NFL has the 'fairest' distribution of salaries across its 32 teams of any of the 'big...

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 September 2011 The resumption of the Premier League this weekend after the...

. In their “Freakonomics for sports” book, Scorecasting, Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon Wertheim challenge conventional wisdom, uncover the hidden...

By Nick Harris 10 August 2010 Researchers at Staffordshire University studying the extent to which homophobia is common within football have found...

By Nick Harris 29 July 2010 Rugby referees in charge of matches featuring teams from their own country against foreign teams tend...

By Nick Harris 8 June 2010 England will reach the World Cup final and beat Spain to lift the trophy, according to...

By Nick Harris 8 April 2010 The failure of England’s leading football clubs to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League...

By Lionel Page 8 April 2010 As an academic with an interest in economic analysis, the downfall of the English teams in...

2 February New research led by Harvard and reported in the current edition of Nature journal has shown that people who...

27 January 2010 With the World Cup in South Africa just around the corner, the third international conference on the 'Economics...

26 January 2010 Did Diego Maradona get away with the 'Hand of God' goal that helped Argentina to eliminate England from...