By Brian Sears 31 December 2010 Nowich City won more matches in the league in 2010 than any other club in English professional football, and those 27 victories put them in No1 place in our composite table of Football League clubs for the calendar year. (See below). The table does not distinguish between divisions, counting […]

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 […]

ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the former Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the honour of sitting in on a few tennis tournaments from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she […]

By Brian Sears 23 December 2010 Manchester City’s two favourite opponents in their 13 and a half seasons in the Premier League are Aston Villa and Newcastle, according to sportingintelligence’s exclusive analysis of where they’ve gained their points down the years. And who are City’s two Yuletide opponents? Ding dong merrily on high – it’s […]

By Brian Sears 23 December 2010 If the weather and the ‘elf ‘n’ safety folk allow, then the old tradition of derby games will be alive and well in London this Boxing Day weekend, with two capital derbies bookending the weekend’s Premier League fixtures. First up is Fulham against West Ham at midday on Sunday, […]

By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Few if any Manchester United fans can have failed to notice the recent coverage of Sir Alex Ferguson ‘overtaking’ Sir Matt Busby’s record reign as United manager, but in fact Ferguson overtook Busby 10 weeks ago. And the inconsistency in the way the ‘official’ United figures have been compiled […]

By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Salman Butt, Pakistan’s suspended cricket captain, told Sky Sports News last week that some of the £29,000 cash found in his hotel room amid spot-fixing allegations at the Lord’s Test was from opening an ice-cream parlour called Afters, located in Tooting Bec, south London. That claim was widely reported, […]

By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Tony McCoy, the greatest jump jockey of all time, was crowned the BBC Sports Personality of the Year at a star-studded awards night in Birmingham this evening – and then mentioned the Beeb’s great broadcasting rivals, Sky, in his acceptance speech. He was talking about the delight with which […]

By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Intelligence officers from MI5 and possibly M16 too are working on secondment on the London 2012 Olympic Games project, contributing to security and anti-terrorist initiatives. Sources say some are ’embedded’ within the Olympic Park in London, working undercover, and more detail can be found in today’s ‘Inside Sport’ column […]

By Brian Sears 16 December 2010 It’s official and it’s demonstrable and it’s enough to leaving a Red feeling Blue: Chelsea are Manchester United’s toughest opponents in the Premier League. United of course have the chance to change the momentum in that relationship this weekend, with themselves on the up, apparently, and unbeaten, certainly, while […]