By Nick Harris 31 May 2010 With the World Cup in South Africa looming and all of Europe’s major nations readying themselves for the competition, new analysis by sportingintelligence of the domestic seasons just ended shows that Germany’s top division attracted more fans overall than England’s top division for the first time in history. It […]
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Villa, Wolves and Everton ‘keepers in USA’s 23-man World Cup squad among eight English-based players
26 May 2010 Tim Howard of Everton, Brad Guzan of Aston Villa and Marcus Hahnemann of Wolverhampton Wanderers are the three goalkeepers named today in the USA’s final 23-man squad for the World Cup. All ply their trade in the English Premier League, and English clubs contribute eight players altogether. The full story is on […]
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s £150,000 London move ‘due to overwhelming public demand’
By Pete Wilson 4 May 2010 The high value of sports stars’ images as bankable intellectual property has been underlined by a decision by Madame Tussauds in London to spend £150,000 on a waxwork of Cristiano Ronaldo – to go on display a full year after he left British shores to sign for Real Madrid […]
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Cavaliers on rise against Bulls in attendance race (as well as play-offs) as NBA weathers downturn
By Nick Harris 21 April 2010 The NBA’s regular-season crowds for the 2009-10 season have echoed those in the NHL and NFL by dipping year-on-year, but only slightly according to a new analysis of attendances by sportingintelligence that highlights some intriguing individual “ups” and “downs” in numbers. After number-crunching official data, we have calculated that […]
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Canadiens back at top of attendance charts as NHL crowds dip by two per cent
By Pete Wilson 20 April 2010 The NHL has followed the NFL in registering a season-on-season decline in crowds according to a sportingintelligence analysis of NHL attendances for the 2009-10 regular season. But just as the NFL’s drop in numbers was small given the severity of the recession (a one per cent drop), so the […]
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Political football: how MUST changed the landscape to make Westminster listen
DAVE BOYLE is the chief executive of Supporters Direct, the organisation that works with supporters trusts at football clubs to help them buy shares and increase influence at their clubs. A former long-serving National Council Member of The Football Supporters’ Federation, he supports AFC Wimbledon. Rather marvelously, he was also the advisor on ‘football matters’ […]
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Kroenke bides his time as Lady Nina puts Arsenal stake on the market
By Nick Harris 13 April 2009 Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith is believed to be seeking around £100m for her 15.9 per cent stake in Arsenal, for which she is seeking buyers via Blackstone, the New York-headquartered global investment and advisory firm. That would value each of her 9,893 shares at just more than the market rate […]
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‘Ice hockey in Britain attracts more people than you think . . . some crowds beat cricket’
By Keira Evans-Determan 12 April 2010 As someone involved professionally in ice hockey on this (British) side of the Atlantic – I work in marketing and communications at the Cardiff Devils, members of the Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) – there’s no point pretending we operate at the level of the world’s No1 hockey league, the […]
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Chelsea praised for plan to boost South Asian players in the game
By Nick Harris 7 April 2010 If footballers with South Asian heritage were proportionately represented in the English game, there would be around 125 pros with sub-Continental backgrounds. In fact there are seven, and even that lowly figure is an all-time high. So as Chelsea today launched their second ‘Search for an Asian Soccer Star’ […]
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NFL has ‘fairest’ pay distribution among the world’s major sports leagues
By Nick Harris 2 April 2010 Average pay across America’s NFL differs less between its richest and poorest teams than in any other major sports league in the world, according to sportingintelligence’s Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries, published today. The study calculates pay at more than 200 teams across 10 leagues including in the […]
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