By Nick Harris 9 September 2013 When the summer 2013 transfer window closed a week ago, the 20 clubs of the Premier League had collectively spent £631,369,000 buying or hiring new players on a permanent basis, not including any players on loan or youth contracts. Sportingintelligence has assessed each club’s total spend and net spend […]

. Andy Murray’s obsession with self-improvement has propelled him from promising Scottish kid to one of the best tennis players in the world. In Hugh MacDonald‘s long-form essay ‘Murrayball: how to gatecrash the golden era’, we learn about his commitment to ‘marginal gains’, which is the process by which an athlete makes small improvements in many […]

* Boxing’s  24-hour weigh-in lets fighters “boil down” for weigh-in day then pile the weight back on before the fight. It encourages extreme dehydration, leaving those who do it susceptible to heat stroke, heart failure, increased risk of brain damage and death. Little has been done adequately to investigate the subject, which is one reason […]

By Nick Harris 24 June 2013 As tennis’s most prestigious grass court tournament begins at Wimbledon today, the presence of one particular American qualifier in the men’s singles draw highlights the sport’s deeply complex relationship with match-fixing, doping and whistle-blowing. Wayne Odesnik, 27, is the world No107 and has previously been ranked inside the world’s […]

By Nick Harris 19 June 2013 Football fans from across the country will march on the Premier League’s headquarters in London today to protest at the cost of tickets to matches. The demonstration has been co-ordinated by the Liverpool fans’ union Spirit of Shankly (SoS) and is expected to involve hundreds from fans from different clubs. It […]

  Stories Contracts via Football Leaks: Sale of Anthony Martial to Man Utd from Monaco – here Monaco & MUFC – Martial; Sale of Suarez to Barca from LFC – here Liverpool & FC Barcelona – Luis Suárez; Sale of Aguero to Man City – here Aguero to City . CIRC report into doping in cycling, 9 March […]

* Pep Guardiola was a serial winner as the coach of Barcelona, making him the most sought-after manager in global football when he took he took a sabbatical from his career at the end of the 2011-12 season. Chelsea were desperate to lure him to Stamford Bridge. Both Manchester clubs and others were reported to […]

By Sportingintelligence 31 December 2012 From everyone at Sportingintelligence to every who has taken time to visit the site and read any single piece we’ve produced in 2012, thank you. Wishing you all a healthy and prosperous, and robustly opinionated new year, here are the stories on this website most read in the past 12 […]

. 31 DECEMBER 2012 A Sportingintelligence survey of almost 1,000 fans from more than 60 different clubs has been published on this website today (link here), with those taking part voting SWANSEA CITY as the club in English football with the best owners, and BLACKBURN ROVERS as the club with the worst owners. These are […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 December 2012 Barcelona have produced more footballers currently earning a living as first-team players across Europe’s elite ‘Big 5’ divisions than any other club in the world, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The Spanish giants have been responsible for the development of 38 players at top-flight […]