By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 March 2012 During this equivalent week 16 years ago – or Monday, 11 March 1996, to be precise – I went to my dad’s funeral in the afternoon and then did something we’d done together so many times: I watched Southampton. It was an FA Cup quarter-final at […]

Brian Sears 9 March 2012 We hinted last week that West Brom might be encountering Chelsea at just the right time to gain their first Premier League victory against them – or indeed their first Premier League point – at the 12th time of asking. How did that go, AVB? A week later and West […]

By Brian Sears 5 March 2012 After seeing their team lose to Manchester United (again) on Sunday, many Spurs fans must be thinking their record against United is one of the poorest in head-to-heads in the history of the Premier League. It is poor, certainly, with just three wins in 40 meetings since the top […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 March 2012 Blackpool’s chairman Karl Oyston has today attempted to defend paying £11m to his father Owen Oyston, who is also the club’s majority shareholder, for being a director in the season Blackpool were relegated from the Premier League. The full story about the […]

By Sportingintelligence 2 March 2012 The statement below has just been issued (5.50pm) by Duff & Phelps, administrators for Rangers, confirming job cut decisions have been postponed until after the weekend. Duff & Phelps also confirm here legal action being taken to freeze monies in various accounts while taking other action to rescue the club. […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 March 2012 In the week in which we passed the 150-days-to-go to the London 2012 Olympics, Sportingintelligence has considered which nations are the best at winning gold medals when size of population is taken into account. We’ve used the medals tallies from the 2008 […]

By Brian Sears 1 March 2012 Certain football club pairings throw up a dominance by one over another across very different eras that logic alone cannot explain. Everton by most neutrals’ estimation are a ‘bigger’ club in all senses than Queens Park Rangers. Everton have won nine English league titles and five FA Cups and […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 February 2012 A new report on the activity of football agents has found that within Europe alone they make a combined income of around €400m a year (or £340m / $538.5m) at today’s exchange rates. The full 82-page report, compiled by the CIES Football Observatory […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 February 2012  RANGERS’ administrators are in a race against time to trace multiple secret six-figure payments made by the Craig Whyte regime to associates and related parties during his time at Ibrox, Sportingintelligence can reveal, and the success or otherwise of that task will […]

24 February 2012 Can you identify the sporting or sports-related arena? We take an aerial view of a topical ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with […]