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  • David Beckham: loathe him or love him, he always gets a reaction

    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 […]

  • Euro 2012 post mortem: was possession really nine-tenths of the score?

    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 […]

  • Golden balls-up: the folly of binning Beckham for the Olympics

    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 […]

  • Spanish squad has highest ‘market value’ at Euros: £579.7m

    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 […]

  • Euro 2012 quarter-finalists: spot-kick history and paying penalties

    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 […]

  • ‘Plagued by problems in football and society, is Euro 2012 Greece’s beacon of hope?’

    * 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 […]

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