By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 January 2013 The number of non-native players in the football leagues of Europe has climbed to record levels, with 36.1 per cent of all players being ‘foreign’ in the leagues in which they play, according to research released today. The CIES Football Observatory […]

By Nick Harris                                            26 March 2016 Goodbye to The Independent as a newspaper, published on paper for the final time on Saturday. It’s been inevitable for some time. It won’t be the last paper […]

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 Nick Harris 11 August 2013 The Premier League in 2013-14 will again be a melting point of nations, with players from 67 countries currently represented within the first-team squads of the 20 clubs ahead of the start of the new season on 17 August. A graphical representation of where these players comes from […]

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 Sportingintelligence May 2012 . From time to time, Sportingintelligence will be adding word cloud images into this gallery, representing stories that appear on this website. Most recent additions on top. Scroll down for more. . 5 The Premier League’s TV rights sale for the 2013-16 seasons and what it means     Read story .  […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 April 2012 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War. As Sportingintelligence contributor Matthew Barrett, a specialist on the subject of sport and war, details on his own blog today, tensions between Britain and Argentina continue to simmer, with sporting repercussions. […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 February 2012   Overseas and over here Landmark dates in the history of overseas players in English football 1892 Walter Bowman, born and raised in Canada, of Swiss heritage, becomes the first foreign player in Football League history, for Accrington. He later plays for Ardwick […]

By Alex Miller 13 January 2012 Leading football clubs are being heavily targeted by HMRC over perks afforded to players and WAGs  – partially because the taxman has already received information and tip-offs relating to major financial discrepancies at at least one top Premier League club, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The finance directors at all Premier […]

By Sportingintelligence 11 November 2011 England play Spain in a Wembley friendly on Saturday – and four of the Spanish squad now ply their trade in England. Liverpool’s Pepe Reina, Chelsea’s Juan Mata and Fernando Torres, and Manchester City’s David Silva could be joined in action by three players who formerly made a living in […]