By Nick Harris 29 September 2010 A day after Ian Poulter clarified, via his Twitter account, that Colin Montgomerie had not in fact banned his Ryder Cup players from tweeting during the event, the English golfer has revealed he’s lost another bet to a team-mate over the result of a practice round. Yesterday, Poulter tweeted: […]

By Nick Harris 29 September 2010 Middlesbrough’s latest financial accounts have just been filed at Companies House and highlight the pressure on manager Gordon Strachan to get the club promoted this season. On page 2 of the accounts, for the year ending 31 December 2009, in the directors’ report under the heading ‘Future outlook’, it […]

By Alex Miller 29 September 2010 The Football Association has told sportingintelligence that talks with interested parties to become the next chief sponsor of the England team – succeeding Nationwide – are “progressing well”. And despite a slew of lurid recent headlines surrounding the private lives of a number of England players, including strikers Wayne […]

By Brian Sears 28 September 2010 Premier League attendance levels have risen year-on-year, and if the trend at this fledging stage of the season remains constant through the campaign, crowds will hit record levels in 2010-11, according to analysis and projections by sportingintelligence. Our statistical reasoning is summarised in the table below, more of which […]

ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the dubious honour of following British players to Grand Slam qualifying 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 went […]

By Alexandra Willis 24 September 2010 . Serena Williams is in danger of surrendering the world No.1 ranking, after her long-awaited return to the game at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo was further delayed. Williams, who this week travelled to London for the Burberry show at London Fashion Week, has not competed since […]

24 September 2010 . The French Open may abandon plans to re-locate to the Parisian suburbs after a vital concession that could allow the French Tennis Federation (FFT) to expand the existing site. Organisers have been seeking ways to modernise and improve the historic location near the French capital’s Bois de Boulogne, but have been […]

24 September 2010 Arsenal’s financial figures for the year to May 2010 show record profits in the group of £56m. Full details and downloads are here at the Arsenal website. Key details: Turnover in the group, including property: up to £379.9m from £313.3m. Operating profit in the football business down slightly: to £56.8m from £62.7m, […]

By Brian Sears 24 September 2010 Four teams remain unbeaten in the Premier League after five rounds of matches and three of them are the “usual suspects” in that Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United have done it the most often of all the Premier League clubs.  But Fulham have now achieved the feat for the […]

By Nick Harris 23 September 2010 A new poll of almost 4,000 football fans has found that up to one in 12 season ticket holders are sharing their tickets with other fans to keep costs down, and within the Premier League it is Manchester United fans who are most likely to be sharing (12 per […]