By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 April 2012 APOEL Nicosia’s Champions’ League adventure looks almost certain to end this week when they complete their quarter-final tie against Real Madrid but Cypriot football remains high-flying in another sense. Cyprus has one of highest levels of attendance at domestic football in the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 April 2012 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War. As Sportingintelligence contributor Matthew Barrett, a specialist on the subject of sport and war, details on his own blog today, tensions between Britain and Argentina continue to simmer, with sporting repercussions. […]

By Sportingintelligence 1 April 2012 [Table updated on morning of 2.4.12] Liverpool’s defeat at Newcastle on Sunday means the only team in the Premier League with a worse record than Kenny Dalglish’s side since the start of the year are Wolves. Liverpool have won just two games from their last dozen in the league since […]

By Brian Sears 30 March 2012 Manchester City have won all 15 of their 15 home games in the Premier League this season, and remain on course to become only the second top-division team in 124 years of English league football history to win all their home games in a season. The only other time […]

* By Helen Harris 28 March 2012   Ed Weston was an ‘endurance athlete’ and a ‘sporting superstar’ many decades before either of those phrases was coined. If he’d been alive today, his athletic achievements would be covered in the sports pages of the broadsheets and his private life would be on the front pages […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 25 March 2012 THERE were five sportsmen on board the Titanic when it sank on 15 April 1912, although their stories are unlikely to be given much if any attention during the eponymous ITV drama series which starts this weekend and will air in 80 […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 25 March 2012 When Darlington went into administration in 2009 – the second of three times the club has now done so – they owed HMRC tax arrears of more than four hundred thousand pounds. As part of the deal that led […]

By Brian Sears 23 March 2012 Tottenham are winless in four Premier Leagues ahead of this weekend’s fixtures, so the last place they need to go is Chelsea, where they play at lunchtime on Saturday. Spurs’ record at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League era is woeful: no wins in 19 visits to date, just […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 March 2012 An authoritative new report on replica kit deals across Europe’s five major leagues shows that the Premier League’s 20 clubs collectively are making more money in 2011-12 from kit supplier contracts (€109.7m or £91.5m) than their counterparts in Spain (€77.5m), Italy (€69.3m), […]

By Brian Sears 22 March 2012 Manchester City’s comeback win against Chelsea on Wednesday evening means they are just one win away from a club record tally of points in the Premier League – with nine games remaining. Their previous highest tally in a Premier League season was 71 points. That was last season when […]