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 […]
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Premier League – the global game. How English football is seen in … India
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 December 2011 England’s Premier League is, by far, the nation’s most successful sporting export, watched live each week in more than 200 countries, and earning from foreign TV rights alone £1.437bn for the current three-year overseas deals (or £479m a year) as reported by sportingintelligence last […]
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Premier League – the global game. How English football is seen in … the U.S.A
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 October 2011 England’s Premier League is, by far, the nation’s most successful sporting export, watched live each week in more than 200 countries, and earning from foreign TV rights alone £1.437bn for the current three-year overseas deals (or £479m a year) as reported by sportingintelligence last […]
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Barcelona’s Guardiola, Madrid’s Mourinho and Ipswich’s Burley in race for Sir Bobby
By Sportingintelligence 23 October 2011 Once in a lifetime, money can’t buy experiences featuring Barcelona and their manager Pep Guardiola, Real Madrid’s manager Jose Mourinho and George Burley, one-time star player and manager of Ipswich Town, are vying to raise the most money as the inaugural charity auction in honour of the late, great Sir […]
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Global appeal of England’s lions keeps kit deal high despite lack of success
By Alex Miller 9 October 2011 England’s football team haven’t won a major trophy since the 1966 World Cup on home soil, haven’t reached a major tournament semi-final since 1996 (on home soil) and haven’t ever got beyond a semi-final on foreign turf – and that was 21 years ago at the 1990 World Cup […]
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Live now! Your chance to bid for unique prizes involving Messi, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, England and much more
* By Sportingintelligence 9 October 2011 The online auction to raise funds in memory of Sir Bobby Robson – with amazing lots involving Lionel Messi, Barcelona, Jose Mourinho, Pele, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and many, many more – is now live. You can visit to charity home page here. You can go straight to […]
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Money talks: the global reaction to the riches of Barca, Real, the Yankees et al
21 April 2011 . Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Report collaboration with ESPN The Magazine has been covered so far, among others, by … . The New York Times (USA). The Washington Post (USA). The BBC (UK). And the BBC in Brazil. Hurriyet (Turkey) with more Turkish coverage on Eurosport and Stargazete. The Liberty Times (Taiwan). DNES (Slovakia) as well as […]
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‘In this age of media and Messi, it’s barely believable. But Argentina, world champions at the time, trained in Hyde Park, amongst a totally nonplussed English general public, sitting in deck-chairs’
** Based in Buenos Aires, Neil Clack is a writer who specialises in South American football. His book, ‘Animals!: Argentina versus England’ is now out in paperback. Below he describes what inspired him to write the history of this famously and famously acrimonious fixture, but starts with an extract from the book, and ‘keeper Carlos […]
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Freddie Ljungberg’s Celtic wage shows decline of Scottish football finances
By Nick Harris 2 January 2011 Celtic got off to a flyer in 2011 today by beating Rangers 2-0 in the Ne’erday derby, but one sign of how dramatically Scottish football finances have continued to deteriorate in the past year is found in Celtic’s deal to sign Freddie Ljungberg until the end of the season. Ljungberg, […]
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AP McCoy accepts major BBC award with plug for Sky
By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Tony McCoy, the greatest jump jockey of all time, was crowned the BBC Sports Personality of the Year at a star-studded awards night in Birmingham this evening – and then mentioned the Beeb’s great broadcasting rivals, Sky, in his acceptance speech. He was talking about the delight with which […]
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