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  By Sportingintelligence 27 May 2013 Watford and Crystal Palace will face each other at Wembley today in the Championship play-off final, the single most lucrative fixture in global sport. The graphic below explains how the £120m prize adds up. A feature on this site from 2010 (linked) gives further examples of how much other […]

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. This page, updated from time to time, contains a range of coverage of stories broken by Sportingintelligence . STORY: Barcelona produce more players for ‘Big 5’ Leagues than any club in the world (from 13 December 2012) Zing (Vietnam), Maccabi Haifa (Israel), Le Parisien (France), Slate.fr (France), TV2 (Norway), Globes (Israel), B92 (Belgrade), Daily […]

. 2 September 2013: LIVE Gareth Bale unveiling at Real Madrid   And find out by clicking on this LINK what Bale is REALLY worth       31 Jan 2013: Beckham’s unveiling press conference at PSG was LIVE here. LIVE PSG TV by PSG   Radio 5 Live (via studio camera) .

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 November 2012 Since the stunning success of the London 2012 Olympic Games, English football has faced an inevitable backlash. The Olympics united large swathes of the country to the extent that Londoners were even speaking to each other on the Tube. Freaky. British Olympians […]

By Sportingintelligence 7 November 2012 NB: this page was originally focussed on the hurricane (see below). On US election night, coverage switches to live footage of the race for the White House: .   29 October 2012 With the eastern seaboard of the USA bracing for Hurricane Sandy to do its worst within hours of […]

By Sportingintelligence 10 October 2012 The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has released a statement this afternoon saying it will imminently publish evidence that seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong’s team ran “the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme the sport has ever seen.” USADA says that details will be published on its website […]

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 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 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 […]