The A-listers offers snapshots of the sporting world in the form of extended, annotated lists of the fastest and fittest, the biggest and best, the richest and most successful, the most popular, the most packed, the most watched, the most enduring. And a few of the opposite for good measure ...

Brian Sears is sportingintelligence's resident statistician, a man who has forgotten more football stats than most people will ever know. His work has had a national profile in UK newspapers for years. Think John Motson on a keen day, in a three-layered anorak. Brian is a lifelong Watford fan, yet still loves football: true devotion...

Sports history with a twist...

Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the help of a cryptic clue...

Interviews, guest columnists, investigative work, miscellanea and all manner of tomfoolery...

The sportingintelligence forum will be a talking shop but not just that. We'll promote a regular exchange of ideas on topical themes. Contribute via our LinkedIn group, on Facebook and Twitter, and even just via the old-fashioned web (dinosaurs), and we'll collate the debate here. The forum: a depository for wisdom. Join in. Please do ...