By Andrew Brocker 3 July 2012 So with Euro 2012 concluded, was possession really nine-tenths of the score? Does the completion accuracy of your tiki-taka really correlate to your chances of getting your name on the trophy? Does the clinical ability of your players to convert a higher percentage of your shots into goals than your […]

By Sportingintelligence 3 July 2012 It was 76 years ago today that Fred Perry was the last British man to date to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title. He triumphed 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 over Germany’s injured Gottfried von Cramm. The match was played on 3 July 1936, a Friday. This is the report that appeared on […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 July 2012 BRITAIN cares so much about the GB Olympic football team that after London 2012 it will be disbanded and will never play again. There has been no GB involvement in Olympic football since Britain failed to qualify for the 1972 Games in […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 June 2012 Spain have the highest ‘market value’ squad of 23 players at Euro 2012 according to assessments by Transfermarkt. Vicente Del Bosque’s reigning world and European champions, who beat France 2-0 on Saturday to reach the semi-finals, are collectively worth £579,700,000, according to the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 June 2012 So the knockout stage of Euro 2012 has arrived and with it the prospect that matches might be settled on penalties. And fate has neatly paired the quarter-finalists according to their historical success in penalty shootouts. The two nations with 100 per […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 19 June 2012   This interactive feature includes your questions (and answers to them) lower down the piece. Thanks for taking part   A companion piece to this article was published on Sunday (linked here) to consider the business thinking behind the big bids by […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 17 June 2012 Jaws dropped, mine included, when the Premier League held a press conference last Wednesday at the Landmark Hotel in London to announce they had sold their UK live TV rights for 2013-16 to Sky and BT – for £3.018bn. This represented a […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 June 2012 As a group of Blackburn fans return to Lancashire this evening after three days of meetings in London with MPs and the FA about the plight of their club, Sportingintelligence publishes a letter, in full below, sent last week by the same […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 June 2012 The chaotic way in which Blackburn Rovers has been run under the ownership of Venky’s is further exposed today by the revelation that transfer policy at the club in the past year has been partly informed by tips from fans via Facebook. […]

* Matthew Barrett studied history at Oxford University, concentrating on the relationship between sport, politics and war in the twentieth century. He currently works in sports sponsorship and you can follow him on Twitter here. In his latest piece for Sportingintelligence, on the eve of Euro 2012, which starts with a game between co-hosts Poland and 2004 champions Greece […]