By Sportingintelligence 31 December 2012 From everyone at Sportingintelligence to every who has taken time to visit the site and read any single piece we’ve produced in 2012, thank you. Wishing you all a healthy and prosperous, and robustly opinionated new year, here are the stories on this website most read in the past 12 […]

. 31 DECEMBER 2012 A Sportingintelligence survey of almost 1,000 fans from more than 60 different clubs has been published on this website today (link here), with those taking part voting SWANSEA CITY as the club in English football with the best owners, and BLACKBURN ROVERS as the club with the worst owners. These are […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 December 2012 Swansea City have the best owners of any club playing within English football according to a wide-ranging survey conducted by Sportingintelligence over the past month. Dave Whelan at Wigan has been voted the second best owner, followed by Sheikh Mansour of Manchester […]

* In the latest instalment of his brilliant weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, poses 13 questions that are guaranteed to remain contentious and unanswered satisfactorily in the sporting year ahead.  . By Ian Herbert 31 December 2012   1. Tell me why we can’t stop demonising officials in […]

By Brian Sears 26 December 2012 Manchester United have played 394 Premier League games at Old Trafford in 21 seasons, winning 296, losing 32 and drawing 66. Sixteen different teams have beaten them in those 32 home defeats in the PL era but the visitors on Boxing Day, Newcastle, are not among those 16. Newcastle have […]

By Brian Sears 26 December 2012 In this season of peace on earth and good will to all men, it remains an unavoidable fact that Stoke City are dull – and have been for some time. And now a new piece of statistical analysis by Sportingintelligence proves it. There have been fewer goals in Premier […]

* In the latest instalment of a new weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s brilliant man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, asks why the Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has been allowed to dominate the narrative  of a fine football match in Swansea yesterday with diversionary comments and a slur on a match official – […]

* In the latest instalment of a new weekly Monday column, Tell Me Why, the Independent’s brilliant man in the north-west, Ian Herbert, asks, the morning after the SPOTY before, whether Britain truly is a nation of sporting sophistication, or whether it’s a country that simply likes to part of an ‘event’ – any event. SPOTY winners are […]

* By Steve Menary 17 December 2012 There was little Christmas cheer from FIFA’s executive committee (ExCo) in Tokyo for Kosovo. Kosovo’s declaration of independence in February 2008 has been recognised by more than half of the United Nations’ members but the former Yugoslav Republic’s footballers are in limbo because the UN itself will not […]

. This page, updated from time to time, contains a range of coverage of stories broken by Sportingintelligence . STORY: Barcelona produce more players for ‘Big 5’ Leagues than any club in the world (from 13 December 2012) Zing (Vietnam), Maccabi Haifa (Israel), Le Parisien (France), Slate.fr (France), TV2 (Norway), Globes (Israel), B92 (Belgrade), Daily […]