In 2012, Grant Wahl wrote a profile piece about FC Barcelona for Sports Illustrated. It was headlined The World’s Team and for it, he was given unparalleled week-long access to the club’s new training facility – which he memorably titles ‘The Hogwarts of Soccer’. This was FC Barcelona in 2012, basking in the afterglow of […]

* EUROPE’S major leagues delivered a string of titles by procession in Spring 2013 as a group of the biggest, richest clubs across the continent romped to runaway victories. Most leagues have always had one or two dominant clubs but is there something else afoot now? And what if anything does that say about the […]

By Alex Miller 17 June 2013 Newcastle United have shocked their fans by appointing Joe Kinnear as director of football but new figures suggest that it is their medical department that could use some reinforcement. New figures show Newcastle had the worst injury record in the Premier League last season, suffering 41 ‘significant’ injuries, with […]

By Nick Harris 21 May 2013 Manchester United earned £60.8m in Premier League TV and prize money for winning the title in the 2012-13 season, official figures just released by the League show. A summary of what each club made in total is in the graphic immediately below while a precise breakdown of ‘equal share’, […]

By Brian Sears 2 January 2013 Queens Park Rangers had the joint worst record in the calendar year 2012 of any club in English professional football (four main divisions). With just seven wins in 39 matches and just 30 points from those games, QPR’s average tally of points was 0.77 points per game. This was […]

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 […]

By Brian Sears 15 August 2012 So the Olympic Games are over and football is facing the inevitable brickbats that will come its way ahead of the new season, which begins in England on Saturday. Of course the beautiful game can learn things from London 2012 and the Olympics as a whole, but let’s not […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 August 2012 The past few days we’ve heard that Great Britain has enjoyed its best Olympic medal haul since 1908 but in relative terms London 2012 was much better for the hosts. In 1908, there were only 2,008 competitors from 22 nations competing, and […]

* ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her backhand in her spare time. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went to Oxford (and not just shopping). . . By Alexandra Willis […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 July 2012 Over the next day or so it is almost certain that you will see or hear somebody claim that the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics will be watched by a global audience of billions. That’s bollocks. It won’t be. Even […]