By Sportingintelligence 13 August 2012 Selected stars of Great Britain’s 2012 Olympic team have made a video to accompany a soundtrack of Queen’s ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’. Here it is below, featuring, among others, David Beckham (shoe-horned in as ‘director’), Chris Hoy, the endearingly batty Victoria Pendleton, the quite clearly fun-loving Jess Ennis and many more. But […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 August 2012 The past few days we’ve heard that Great Britain has enjoyed its best Olympic medal haul since 1908 but in relative terms London 2012 was much better for the hosts. In 1908, there were only 2,008 competitors from 22 nations competing, and […]

* ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her backhand in her spare time. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went to Oxford (and not just shopping). . . By Alexandra Willis […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 August 2012 In 1999, I met a 16-year-old kid called Mo who said it would mean a great deal to run for Britain. He was one of 110 promising British youngsters at an ‘Olympic futures’ training camp in Florida. I was reporting on it […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 July 2012 Over the next day or so it is almost certain that you will see or hear somebody claim that the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics will be watched by a global audience of billions. That’s bollocks. It won’t be. Even […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 July 2012 Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules will start to bite at the end of the forthcoming season (2012-13) when clubs in Uefa competitions will need to start meeting the FFP ‘break even’ requirement, namely not losing more money than they earn. Limited losses are allowed in the early years. One of […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 July 2012  The combined shirt sponsorship income of the Premier League’s 20 clubs has jumped 25 per cent in a year from £117.5m in 2011-12 to £147.1m for the 2012-13 season, according to new research by Sportingintelligence. This is the third […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 July 2012 David Beckham’s omission from the British football team for London 2012 polarised opinion but the former England captain is sure to take centre stage in some capacity at some point during London 2012. If Beckham had been in Team GB, perhaps a whole swathe of seats at the Millennium Stadium […]

. By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 July 2012 There is typically a strong relationship between the size of a nation’s population, its financial resources and the amount of medals it wins at an Olympic Games. A variety of studies has shown this to be the case, and predictions for […]

By Sportingintelligence 23 July 2012 The American sports channel Fox Soccer will air a six-part ‘fly on the wall’ documentary about Liverpool in the Autumn, with the first episode due to be screened in the USA on 16 September. The show will air in the UK on Channel 5. A trailer is below.   . […]