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		<title>Where the money went: Premier League prize and TV payments for 2011-12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 May 2012 Manchester City sealed the 2011-12 Premier League title in the most dramatic fashion on Sunday, and now know the precise financial reward for the season from Premier League central funds: £60,602,289. The massive sums on offer for simply being a member of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/14/where-the-money-went-premier-league-prize-and-tv-payments-for-2011-12-150501/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the economy, stupid! How money fuels glory in the Premier League</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 May 2012 Money has helped to fuel success as long as the English football league has existed &#8211; so that&#8217;s about 124 years. So while saying that Manchester City bought the 2011-12 Premier League title is true (they would not have done it without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/14/its-the-economy-stupid-how-wages-aid-success-in-the-premier-league-140502/</link>
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		<title>Venky&#8217;s ponder options as Indian media turns spotlight on Blackburn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 May 2012 As Blackburn&#8217;s manager Steve Kean prepares to leave for India on Tuesday evening for talks with the club&#8217;s owners on Wednesday, a critical difference of opinion over his fate persists; on one side are senior club officials at Ewood Park and at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/14/venkys-ponder-options-as-indian-media-turn-spotlight-on-blackburn-150501/</link>
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		<title>The Sportingintelligence Worldle wall: where the stories catch your eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sportingintelligence May 2012 . From time to time, Sportingintelligence will be adding Wordle images into this gallery, representing stories that appear on this website. Most recent additions on top. Scroll down for more. . 3 Stan Kroenke at No1 in a list of global sports tycoons    Read story . . 2 Letter from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/12/imagine-that-stories-in-wordle120501/</link>
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		<title>Premier League showdown weekend: eight statistical puzzlers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Brian Sears 11 May 2012 So another Premier League season, the 20th since the top flight of the English game was revamped into the cosmopolitan cashfest of today, is coming to a close. And yet there is still so much to be resolved, not least from a statistical point of view the following eight [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/11/premier-league-showdown-weekend-eight-statistical-puzzlers-110502/</link>
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		<title>Kroenke heads list of global sports tycoons as USA switches on to THE global game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 May 2012 The world&#8217;s foremost sports tycoons, many of them US entertainment entrepreneurs, are increasingly turning to football as America&#8217;s interest in the sport grows and as Stateside investors realise there is only one truly global game. Sportingintelligence has compiled a list of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/11/kroenke-heads-list-of-global-sports-tycoons-as-usa-switches-on-to-the-global-game-110501/</link>
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		<title>Blackburn co-owner claims Hunt sacked for cost-cutting reasons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 10 May 2012 One of Blackburn&#8217;s co-owners has claimed today that former deputy CEO Paul Hunt was sacked yesterday for cost-cutting reasons. Sportingintelligence has learned Hunt was sacked late on Tuesday in the wake of the publication by this website (see story) of an emailed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/10/blackburn-co-owner-claims-hunt-sacked-for-cost-cutting-reasons-100501/</link>
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		<title>REVEALED: New leaked Blackburn letter lays bare crisis and torment inside Ewood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 May 2012 An extraordinary letter written in late December by Blackburn Rovers&#8217; deputy CEO Paul Hunt to the club&#8217;s owner, Anuradha Desai, has laid bare the crisis that has been gripping the club all season. READ THE LETTER IN FULL on our Facebook page [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/08/revealed-new-leaked-blackburn-letter-lays-bare-crisis-and-torment-inside-ewood-080501/</link>
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		<title>Global Sports Salaries Survey 2012: some international perspective</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sportingintelligence 6 May 2012 Sportingintelligence&#8217;s Global Sports Salary Survey 2012 (PDF available) was published on Tuesday 2 May. The main news story and headline findings appeared on this site on Tuesday. CLICK HERE for details. And there are GRAPHIC illustrations here. This year&#8217;s survey was again conducted in association with ESPN The Magazine in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/06/global-sports-salaries-survey-2012-some-international-perspective-060501/</link>
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		<title>The Sports Lawyer: &#8216;In truth the BOA&#8217;s drug ban appeal was never likely to succeed&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport &#38; Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon reflects on the British Olympic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.sportingintelligence.com/2012/05/04/the-sports-lawyer-in-truth-the-boas-drug-ban-appeal-was-never-likely-to-succeed-040503/</link>
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