Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . This page contains a regularly updated interactive timeline of events (top, most recent major event in the election first); a list of recommended people to follow for updates; a list of links to key ‘players’ (including institutions, sponsors, unions and reform […]

By Nick Harris 11 May 2015 Sporting Intelligence is pleased to announce a new partnership with sports compression wear company SKINS that will help to maintain this website’s independence – and help to enable the provision of some project funding for young and upcoming sports writers. The new alliance comes on the heels of www.sportingintelligence.com […]

REVIEW By John Roberts 31 October 2014 During Everton’s celebratory dinner after winning the League title in 1963, Harry Catterick, the club’s manager, mentioned to Roy Vernon, one of his stellar players, that he was considering writing an autobiography. “I don’t want it published until after I’m dead,” Catterick added, to which Vernon replied dryly: […]

By Ian Herbert 12 September 2014 One of the main panel events at the Soccerex global convention in Manchester this week was headlined: ‘How to run a club successfully.’ We heard all of the usual stuff about what the game has become: Liverpool selling £50,000 of Mario Balotelli shirts in a day, reaching 10 million […]

. At the end of the 2010-11 Turkish football season, Fenerbahçe were crowned champions after finishing with the same number of points (82) as title rivals Trabzonspor, but with a better head-to-head record. But Turkish football was soon rocked as it emerged Fenerbahçe’s success was a result of one of the most devastating match-fixing scandals the game […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 December 2013 As the holiday season gets underway and the countdown to 2014 begins, here are the most-read articles on Sportingintelligence in 2013. Thanks for reading. 1:  REVEALED: Manchester City rise to top of global pay charts, Dodgers soar to challenge (11 June) (Download PDF resources read offline, via here) 2:  From Man Utd […]

By Ian Herbert 12 December 2013 There won’t be any great sentiment for footballers who are banned for illegal betting but the small details of the case of what we might call the “Accrington Five” does reveal why one of the root causes of match fixing – the players need for some ready cash – […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 March 2013 The American lawyer investigating the circumstances in which the 2022 World Cup was awarded to Qatar has urged anyone with information that could prove wrongdoing in the bidding process to share that information as soon as possible. Michael Garcia is a former […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 March 2013 A new large-scale survey of Chinese football fans to coincide with the start of the 2013 Chinese Super League (CSL) season has found that three of the top five players that supporters would like to see imported to the competition are Steven […]

By Brian Sears 8 February 2013 Winning away from home in the Premier League is not easy. In the entire 21-year-history of revamped top division, only one club has won more than half of their away games, and that is Manchester United, the dominant force of the era. United have played 399 Premier League games […]