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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 10 May 2012 One of Blackburn’s co-owners has claimed today that former deputy CEO Paul Hunt was sacked yesterday for cost-cutting reasons. Sportingintelligence has learned Hunt was sacked late on Tuesday in the wake of the publication by this website (see story) of an emailed […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 May 2012 An extraordinary letter written in late December by Blackburn Rovers’ deputy CEO Paul Hunt to the club’s owner, Anuradha Desai, has laid bare the crisis that has been gripping the club all season. READ THE LETTER IN FULL on our Facebook page […]

By Sportingintelligence 6 May 2012 Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salary Survey 2012 (PDF available) was published on Tuesday 2 May. The main news story and headline findings appeared on this site on Tuesday. CLICK HERE for details. And there are GRAPHIC illustrations here. This year’s survey was again conducted in association with ESPN The Magazine in […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 May 2012 As revealed earlier this week, Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey 2012 has again found Barcelona to be the world’s best paid sports team. CLICK HERE to read more detail about the 278 featured teams from 14 leagues in 10 countries from seven […]

By Brian Sears 4 May 2012 Premier League teams collectively have won fewer points at home than in any other season in the top-flight’s 20-year history. As the graphic below shows, just 57.3 per cent of all points have been won at home this season. Typically the figure is just above 60 per cent and […]

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  1 May 2012 Barcelona remain the best paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, with Real Madrid in second place but Manchester City of the Premier League have stormed into the top three and continue to close the gap on the Spanish […]

By Brian Sears 30 April 2012 The Premier League remains on course for a second consecutive season of record goal-scoring overall, but one new record has already just been set. The hat-tricks from Luis Suarez and Fernando Torres on Sunday mean there have been 19 trebles this season so far – more than in any […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 29 April 2012 I have been trying for much of the day, and failing, to write a proper tribute to Khalil Dale, my friend of 23 years, murdered in Pakistan. We were at university together, shared a flat, played football (I persuaded him just the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 April 2012 Football’s European governing body Uefa will show the Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea on 19 May live on a giant screen at Bayern’s old home, the Olympic Stadium, to a paying crowd of 65,000 fans, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The […]