By Alex Miller 13 January 2012 Leading football clubs are being heavily targeted by HMRC over perks afforded to players and WAGs  – partially because the taxman has already received information and tip-offs relating to major financial discrepancies at at least one top Premier League club, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The finance directors at all Premier […]

. By Sportingintelligence  9 January 2012 . This article is a companion feature to the article posted here today about tennis players’ earnings. . In 2011, Novak Djokovic’s on-court earnings in tennis were $12.6m, which made him the Barcelona (highest earners in football) of the tennis world. Using the same logic, comparing a player’s on-court […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 January 2012  The most lucrative Grand Slam in tennis history is nigh, with the Australian Open singles winners due to collect Aus$2.3m each (£1.49m), which is more than any Slam singles winners to date. For triumphing in the doubles, the winning couples will split […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 January 2011 England’s Premier League is, by far, the nation’s most successful sporting export, watched live each week in more than 200 countries, and earning from foreign TV rights alone £1.437bn for the current three-year overseas deals (or £479m a year) as reported by sportingintelligence last […]

By Sportingintelligence  5 January 2012 A tennis coaching document used at one of the world’s most famous tennis academies – Nick Bollettieri’s in Florida – recommends breathing out when hitting the ball in a manner that naturally leads to punctuation with a grunt, it has been revealed today. While the academy and Bollettieri – who […]

By Dan Kennett 5 January 2012  MONEYBALL. As someone who works with data on a daily basis in a business environment, Moneyball appealed to me on many levels, not least because the story was so well written by Michael Lewis and the Hollywood movie was pretty entertaining too. (See trailer, article continues below). . . However, Moneyball […]

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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 January 2012  BLACKBURN Rovers are planning to make net player sales in the January transfer window – with their Canadian winger Junior Hoilett almost certain to go soon – but the sell-off may not be as drastic as envisaged even a few days ago, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 January 2012 Sport, like life, is gloriously unpredictable – and hence predictions are fun at least for those able to mock at leisure when all your predictions go tits up. Still, Sportingintelligence thinks the following events might jolly well happen in 2012: Andy Murray will […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 January 2012 On the first day of 2012, we draw a line under 2011 by publishing below a variety of league tables from the last calendar year in English football. This first table is a composite top 10 of any club who […]