By Sportingintelligence 10 October 2012 The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has released a statement this afternoon saying it will imminently publish evidence that seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong’s team ran “the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme the sport has ever seen.” USADA says that details will be published on its website […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 October 2012 Manchester United and Liverpool have the most lucrative kit supplier deals in the Premier League this season, earning a guaranteed £25.4m and £25m respectively from Nike and Warrior – but still trail the sums earned by Spanish giants Real Madrid […]

* By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 October 2012 Manchester United and Real Madrid have sold an average of 1.4m official replica shirts globally each year in the past five years – more than any other clubs in the world. The commercial giants of English and Spanish […]

By Brian Sears 4 October 2012 Only five different clubs have gone an entire Premier League season unbeaten at home – the traditional ‘big four’ of Manchester United (three times), Arsenal (three times), Liverpool (once) and Chelsea (four times), plus Manchester City, last season. The longest unbeaten home run in the Premier League era belongs […]

By Brian Sears 4 October 2012 The Premier League season has started with goals flowing at record pace, with 168 in 58 games for an average of 2.89 per game. Manchester United (with 14 goals in six games) have led the way followed by Fulham (13), Everton (12) and Manchester City (12), with Chelsea, Tottenham, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 28 September 2012 Steve Kean’s managerial reign at Blackburn is over after the 44-year-old surprisingly resigned on Friday evening. Nobody at the club was expecting the Scot to quit so suddenly and MD Derek Shaw, when told of the news, said he was unaware it […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 28 September 2012 Steve Kean earned a ‘stay of execution’ at Blackburn Rovers after his wife Margaret called the club’s co-owner Anuradha Desai to say she believed sacking him would be unfair, sources in India and England have told Sportingintelligence. Insiders say the decision was […]

By Brian Sears 28 September 2012 For a club with aspirations to become regular top-four finishers in the Premier League, Tottenham have an absolutely woeful record in the Premier League when playing away against the clubs long known as the ‘Big Four’. In the 20 completed seasons of the Premier League they have played a […]

. Still pining for a festival of sport after the London Olympics and Paralympics lit up the summer? Pine no more. The next Olympics begin in 500 days – in Sochi, Russia, from 7 February 2014. MARK STANIFORTH, left, ardent admirer of all things Winter Games, explains why it’s a big deal, and why there […]

By Brian Sears 20 September 2012 I’m no entomologist and I’m certainly no apiologist but as a statistician with an eye for the weird and wonderful in football, I can’t help but notice a lack of Bs in the Premier League this season. The relegation last season of Bolton and Blackburn following hard on the heels […]