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 […]

By Brian Sears 30 April 2012 The Premier League remains on course for a second consecutive season of record goal-scoring overall, but one new record has already just been set. The hat-tricks from Luis Suarez and Fernando Torres on Sunday mean there have been 19 trebles this season so far – more than in any […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 29 April 2012 I have been trying for much of the day, and failing, to write a proper tribute to Khalil Dale, my friend of 23 years, murdered in Pakistan. We were at university together, shared a flat, played football (I persuaded him just the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 April 2012 Football’s European governing body Uefa will show the Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea on 19 May live on a giant screen at Bayern’s old home, the Olympic Stadium, to a paying crowd of 65,000 fans, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The […]

By Brian Sears 27 April 2012 Aston Villa and Liverpool are probably both grateful not to be playing at home this weekend: both are guaranteed to finish this season with home wins tallies at record bad levels. Neither’s plight on their own turf is acceptable to their fans, but Villa’s is particularly awful – all-time terrible in their […]

By Brian Sears 26 April 2012 Everton meeting Fulham in the Premier League is a statistician’s delight.  It happens for the 22nd time this Saturday and although it’s a mid-table battle (Fulham trail Everton by just two points) and of little consequence at the top or bottom of the league, it has intriguing statistical interest. Ten […]

By Sportingintelligence  25 April 2012 Kaka has become the first sportsman in the world to amass 10 million followers on the micro-blogging website Twitter. As this report from the Associated Press detailed when the Real Madrid footballer passed the landmark, he tweeted: ‘Thank youuuuu. To celebrate I’ll make a twitcam’. Whatever that means. Love it […]

By Sportingintelligence 23 April 2012 The London Olympics, like any summer Games, has become as much about a rush for businesses to exploit the massive media exposure it generates as about winning medals. Which is why companies like EDF pull stunts like the one below, dressing British cycling heroine Victoria Pendleton in wire for publicity. […]

* In 2009, Arsenal’s manager Arsene Wenger likened being a football manager to living on a volcano: any day could be your last. Three years on and his view has surely been reinforced this season, a campaign in which he endured sustained discontent from some fans and some sections of the media for the first […]