By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 December 2011 England’s Premier League is, by far, the nation’s most successful sporting export, watched live each week in more than 200 countries, and earning from foreign TV rights alone £1.437bn for the current three-year overseas deals (or £479m a year) as reported by sportingintelligence last […]

By Brian Sears 30 December 2011 Tottenham will soon become the first club in the Premier League era to have conceded 1,000 goals in Premier League matches. To date, they have conceded 998 in 751 Premier League games at a rate of 1.33 per game. One might reasonably expect two more at some point in […]

By Brian Sears 30 December 2011 Everton have won 999 points from their 751 Premier League games to date in the PL era, so need just one more point for 1,000. It should arrive soon. Their next game is at West Brom on Sunday, then they play at home to Bolton on Wednesday 4 January. […]

By Brian Sears 23 December 2011 Merry Christmas, one and all. Although if you’re a Wigan or Wolves fan, it might not be too merry. Their next games, respectively at Manchester United on Boxing Day and at Arsenal on 27 December are against teams from whom they have NEVER taken a single Premier League point. […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 December 2011 The occasion of the Premier League’s 20,000th goal, scored on Wednesday evening by Marc Albrighton and marked with a tongue-in-cheek live blog on this website, was celebrated and castigated in fairly even measure. The critics picked up on the obvious point that […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 December 2011 . This article was regularly updated until the Premier League’s 20,000th goal was scored … BUT IT’S OVER NOW PEOPLE. GO HOME .. 8.56pm. GOAL! And that’s it. Marc Albrighton of Aston Villa (v Arsenal) scored the 20,000th goal in Premier League history. Thank you and goodnight. ** Goes to […]

JORGE VASCONCELOS is from Santos in Brazil, where he lives a couple of miles from the Estadio Urbano Caldeira – the footballing home of Pele between 1956 and 1974. Like every Brazilian, he’d claim to know what constitutes a beautiful game. And in his latest article for Sportingintelligence, in the wake of Barcelona’s 4-0 crushing of Santos in the […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 December 2011 Chelsea’s John Terry – also the captain of England – will face a charge of using racially abusive language towards QPR’s Anton Ferdinand, the Crown Prosecution Service said today. The Football Association launched its own investigation in October into allegations that Terry used a racially abusive term towards QPR’s Anton Ferdinand […]

By Brian Sears 21 December 2011 The Premier League’s 20,000th goal will be scored in one of Wednesday evening’s seven fixtures – barring a freaky night of low scoring that would be entirely counter to this extraordinary season so far. LIVE countdown to 20,000 HERE The revamped top-flight began in the 1992-93 season, and by […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 December 2011 A meeting between Blackburn’s board and fans’ representatives, scheduled for this week with the intention of letting supporters know what is happening at the club, has been indefinitely postponed, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The meeting, promised in exchange for a ‘truce’ on protests […]