By Nick Harris 20 October 2010 Wayne Rooney has confirmed in a statement that he wants to leave Manchester United having asked for assurances “about the continued ability of the club to attract the top players in the world.” The subtext is he did not receive the assurances and hence wants to leave. This will […]

By Nick Harris Editor, sportingintelligence 2 August 2010 . Want a chance of winning a copy of sportingintelligence’s 2010 Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries, worth £195? Just buy any product from Amazon that you wanted anyway to go into the draw. Simple! The Review is a unique document that tells you the real average […]

By Pete Wilson 31 July 2010 A four-man rowing crew, skippered by a Scotsman, Leven Brown, have completed a trans-Atlantic crossing today, coming ashore at the Scilly Isles and smashing a 114-year-old record for a US to UK rowing voyage. The crew, who have been homing in on their target over the last few days, […]

By Keira Daley 15 June 2010 A rowing crew hoping to become the first women to row non-stop around Britain’s coastline have completed 600 miles of their 2,010-mile challenge within the first 14 days and are guaranteed to win the two-boat “race” to finish the challenge after their male opponents withdrew yesterday. When they set […]

By Keira Daley 15 June 2010 As Switzerland prepare to open their World Cup campaign tomorrow in Durban, against the favourites Spain, some lucky compatriots back home – workers in a Swiss bank – are benefitting from a unique World Cup table football room (see pictures below). The identity of the specific bank cannot be […]

By Andy Cole 4 June 2010 Fabio Capello’s England squad held no surprises for me (Theo Walcott didn’t deserve to go), and just one disappointment: Darren Bent’s omission. The Sunderland striker could not have done any more at club level to warrant inclusion, having scored 24 Premier League goals this season, so I can only […]

By Nick Harris 2 June 2010 An analysis of the strikers from Europe’s leading nations heading for South Africa – and their records at domestic level in 2009-10 – proves that Darren Bent is uniquely unfortunate in not being selected to be part of England’s 23-man squad. The 26-year-old Sunderland forward is the only footballer […]

By Nick Harris 26 May 2010 Liverpool’s former owner David Moores says in a letter to The Times today: “I hugely regret selling the club to George Gillett and Tom Hicks.” The letter, more than 3,100 words of it (below), was written to The Times‘ football editor, Tony Evans, and is a stonking bona fide […]

By Brian Sears 21 May 2010 A new in-depth sportingintelligence analysis of the play-off winners during the 23 seasons of the play-offs’ existence in English football suggests that Blackpool have statistical history on their side when they face Cardiff tomorrow in the Championship play-off final at Wembley. The Welsh team may be the favourites, but […]

By Nick Harris 22 April 2010 Britain will hold a general election on Thursday 6 May. The current Labour government under PM Gordon Brown will either retain power or be replaced by David Cameron’s Conservative Party or Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats. Another scenario is a hung parliament and a power-sharing regime; key posts could be […]