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 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 May 2012 The world’s foremost sports tycoons, many of them US entertainment entrepreneurs, are increasingly turning to football as America’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 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 10 May 2012 One of Blackburn’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 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 May 2012 An extraordinary letter written in late December by Blackburn Rovers’ deputy CEO Paul Hunt to the club’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 […]

By Sportingintelligence 6 May 2012 Sportingintelligence’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’s survey was again conducted in association with ESPN The Magazine in […]

. THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & 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 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 May 2012 As revealed earlier this week, Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey 2012 has again found Barcelona to be the world’s best paid sports team. CLICK HERE to read more detail about the 278 featured teams from 14 leagues in 10 countries from seven […]

By Brian Sears 4 May 2012 Premier League teams collectively have won fewer points at home than in any other season in the top-flight’s 20-year history. As the graphic below shows, just 57.3 per cent of all points have been won at home this season. Typically the figure is just above 60 per cent and […]

By Sportingintelligence 3 May 2012 A question recently mooted in these pages concerned the marketability of attractive young British sportswomen in Olympic year (details and photos here). This in turn led to Sportingintelligence contributor Alex Miller quantifying in cash terms what it means in a feature for the Mail on Sunday (link here). The answer […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year  1 May 2012 Barcelona remain the best paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, with Real Madrid in second place but Manchester City of the Premier League have stormed into the top three and continue to close the gap on the Spanish […]