By Brian Sears 3 February 2012 Earlier in the week we highlighted how Fulham had held a perfect Prem record against West Brom, and no sooner had we highlighted it, it went pop as they could only draw 1-1. That’s Sod’s Law – and the glory of sport. Neither does it prevent me from highlighting, […]
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United and City rewriting hat-trick map as Manchester chases Arsenal record
By Brian Sears 14 September 2011 Whether Manchester City can make an impression in their first European Cup campaign since 1968 remains to be seen, as their city rivals United aim for a fourth Champions League final in five seasons. But in no doubt are the storming starts both clubs have made in the Premier […]
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Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and City maintain goal rush towards record
By Brian Sears 8 April 2011 With 72 games remaining in the Premier League this season before the matches on Saturday and Sunday, an average of three goals per game would see a record level of scoring this campaign, the 19th season in the League’s history. Overall so far this season the rate works out at 2.77 […]
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Manchester United become world’s most popular team on Facebook, with more than 20 times the fans of City
By Pete Wilson 11 February 2011 Manchester United have become the world’s most popular team, as measured by fans on Facebook, the social networking site that has more than 600 million active users across more than 200 countries. United overtook Barcelona in the past few hours, and currently have more than 9.053m ‘fans’ against Barca’s […]
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Manchester United pip Chelsea to be champions of 2010, ahead of Man City, Arsenal and Tottenham
By Brian Sears 31 December 2010 Chelsea are the defending holders of the Premier League-FA Cup Double but Manchester United were the Premier League team of 2010, as our analysis of league results in the calendar year shows. (See table below). Of those 17 clubs who spent the whole year in the top division, United […]
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Chelsea favourites for Premier League title, Liverpool behind Manchester United, Arsenal and Man City in the running
By Pete Wilson 17 June 2010 With the release of the fixture list for 2010, bookmakers William Hill have made Chelsea the favourites for the Premier League title, with QPR favourites for the Championship. Southampton favourites for League One, Gilligham favourites for League Two. The full odds from Hills for 2010-11: PREMIER LEAGUE Win: 13/8 […]
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Manchester clubs lead way as PL shirt deals climb to £315.6m
By Alex Miller 30 July 2018 This article was updated on 14 August with a new graphic Premier League clubs have broken their own record for combined shirt sponsorship deals, […]
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Where the money went: £150m United pip Man City in PL cash race
By Sportingintelligence 17 May 2018 Manchester City’s stunning and record-breaking Premier League title win in Pep Guardiola’s second season as a manager in England earned them almost £150m in prize cash, with official figures released today showing they have pocketed £149,438,654 from central funds alone. The money comes primarily from the PL’s huge TV deals but […]
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Oklahoma City Thunder No1 earners in sport as gender gulf endures
By Nick Harris 26 November 2017 Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA are now the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2017, published today. This year’s GSSS is a 140-page special edition, which, for the first time, includes an ‘audit’ that quantifies the gulf between men’s and women’s professional […]
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‘Even Emily Maitlis on Newsnight went Leicester City gaga’
Screen Break By Martin Kelner To sponsor this column, see foot of page 2 May 2016 I’m a very bad person. All week long, as the anti-Semitism debate rumbled on, relentlessly ploughing the same field, just with a shifting cast of politicos and lobbyists and as a (very lapsed) Jew I […]
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