By Dr Tom Markham 21 August 2015 Manchester United are by far the most valuable football club in England, worth £1.848 billion, and the only other club worth more than £1bn is Arsenal, at £1.118bn. By ‘worth’, the definition is market value, using a fixed set of financial criteria – hard economic data – to look at what they earn and […]

By Brian Sears 8 February 2013 Winning away from home in the Premier League is not easy. In the entire 21-year-history of revamped top division, only one club has won more than half of their away games, and that is Manchester United, the dominant force of the era. United have played 399 Premier League games […]

By Brian Sears 1 February 2013 Premier League draws are happening at record rates – and the midweek spate of six draws in 10 games has only cemented that pattern. In the 8,086 Premier League games played since the era of the revamped top division began in 1992, there have been 2,182 draws, or 27 […]

By Sportingintelligence 3 May 2012 A question recently mooted in these pages concerned the marketability of attractive young British sportswomen in Olympic year (details and photos here). This in turn led to Sportingintelligence contributor Alex Miller quantifying in cash terms what it means in a feature for the Mail on Sunday (link here). The answer […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 January 2012 The trial of Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric continues into a second week today at Southwark Crown Court. Proceedings are being covered by the full range of national media, and if you want regular ‘live’ updates too, then among others who have […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year in Krakow 4 December 2012 Since the draw for Euro 2012 on Friday, when England were thrown together with France, Ukraine and Sweden in Group D, based in Ukraine, the FA has come in for all manner of criticism for having already picked a base […]

By Alexandra Willis 7 October 2010 India is leading the charge at the inaugural tennis event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi after Sania Mirza and Somdev Devvarman both progressed to the semi-finals of the women’s and men’s singles respectively. National pin-up Mirza, the world No.137, appeared to relish the home support at the […]

21 February 2010 America’s Bode Miller has finally won the Olympic gold medal he’s craved for so long, slaloming to victory today at Whistler in the super combined. Miller, 32, has been an object of fascination for years, for reasons good and bad, and was certainly an entertaining chap to try to pin down when […]