By Keira Daley 29 July 2010 West Bromwich Albion have today become the latest Premier League club to announce an official ban on vuvuzelas within their ground for the forthcoming season. In a statement on the club’s website, Mark Miles, Albion’s head of facility operations and development, said: “Although vuvuzelas are very popular in South Africa, […]

By Nick Harris 29 July 2010 Rugby referees in charge of matches featuring teams from their own country against foreign teams tend to make hugely biased decisions, according to extensive new research by academics at Cambridge University and the University of London. The bias is present in referees in both codes of the game – […]

By Nick Harris 29 July 2010 A four-man rowing crew, skippered by a Scotsman, Leven Brown, remain on course today to smash a 114-year-old record for rowing across the Atlantic from the US to the UK. At 6am this morning, the quartet were aboard their 23-feet boat, Artemis Investments, traveling at 2.71 knots off the […]

By Nick Harris 28 July 2010 In a welcome development in the John Higgins ‘match fix’ case, The Guardian is reporting that the News of the World has now handed over to investigators all the video tapes shot during its sting operation on Higgins and business partner Pat Mooney. Sportingintelligence cannot independently corroborate that the […]

By Nick Harris 28 July 2010 Peter Ebdon, the former world snooker champion, has today taken the unprecedented step of releasing a public statement via the game’s world governing body to say he may not play very well at his next event. The 2002 world champion, 39, currently No18 in the world, will still compete […]

By Keira Daley 26 July 2010 You’ve heard all about Ezequiel Calvente‘s “switch hit” penalty for Spain against Italy in the European under-19 championships, or rather you should have done. Now see it. . . Find out what the world’s top sportsmen REALLY earn, in our database, and in our Global Sports Salaries report Sportingintelligence home page . […]

By Nick Harris 26 July 2010 Manchester United are hopeful they will sell most if not all of the 54,000  “ordinary” season tickets available for the 2010-11 season, having already broken the 50,000 barrier and with the first-come, first-serve sale ongoing of the remaining 4,000. Some opponents of the club’s American owners, the Glazer family, […]

By Nick Harris EXCLUSIVE 26 July 2010 The so-called ‘match fix’ case against the world’s No1 snooker player, John Higgins, which began in a blaze of global publicity on 2 May after a News of the World entrapment sting, will reach a conclusion with a tribunal hearing in early September, sportingintelligence can reveal. The hearing, […]

By Pete Wilson 25 July 2010 Alex ‘Hurricane’ Higgins, the twice former world snooker champion who died yesterday at the age  of 61, was not an easy man to like for much of his life, a fact reflected in the ongoing tributes to his massive contribution to his sport. The astute, seasoned snooker observer Dave […]

25 July 2010 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a topical ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the […]