By Brian Sears 29 March 2011 Just 82 Premier League games remain to be played this season, and it’s great fun trying to predict the outcome. Using historical results based on previous Premier League meetings, sportingintelligence has projected the end-of-season table for 2010-11. The full explanation of how we reached our conclusions is elsewhere today. […]

By Brian Sears 29 March 2011 As soon as Fabio Capello’s ‘B’ team have faced Ghana at Wembley, attention in English football will switch back to the enthralling Premier League races for the title, for European qualification, and to avoid the drop. Just 82 Premier League games remain to be played this season, and it’s […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 28 March 2011 . Neymar is 19 and hails from Pele’s old club Santos, and Lucas is 18 and plays for Sao Paulo, whose alumni include Kaka. Both shone against Scotland at the Emirates on Sunday and when – not if – they come to Europe, […]

By Brian Sears 26 March 2011 An average of only 13 players each season have managed to appear for their clubs in every Premier League game. In the first season, in 1992-93, when there were 42 games in a season, 20 players* were ever present. In 1997-98, as few as six players were ‘ever presents’. Last season […]

By Alexandra Willis in Indian Wells 20 March 2011 Novak Djokovic out-fought the game’s prize fighter to win the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, coming from behind to defeat Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and extend his figures for the 2011 season to 21-0. Despite coming out of the blocks marginally slower than his […]

By Alex Miller 20 March 2011 The former Liverpool and Sweden defender Glenn Hysen has revealed his pride at the decision by his 20 year-old son, Anton, to become the first professional Swedish footballer to come out as gay – and how he hopes it might contribute to gay Premier League players feeling comfortable enough […]

By Sportingintelligence 20 March 2011 Manchester City’s reliance on Carlos Tevez for goals is well known and obvious. They often thrive when the Argentinean is playing well and netting – and they struggle without him. It happened again on Sunday when City met Chelsea, minus Tevez, and lost 2-0. But how much do they rely […]

By Nick Harris SJA internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 March 2011 . Money talks in football, with reams of evidence that the more you spend on wages, the better you perform. That’s why, using soccernomics theory, Manchester City and Chelsea, who meet on Sunday at Stamford Bridge, should be vying with each other […]

By Brian Sears 18 March 2011 In many ways, Everton have struggled to hit the statistical heights in the Premier League era. Of the seven ever-present Premier League clubs, Everton will be the last to reach the coveted 1,000 points total – they are still 39 points short. (Tottenham were the sixth club to reach the target […]

By Sportingintelligence 15 March 2011 On the back of our feature about how Patrick Vieria was selected in 2003 as the best foreign player in English football up to then, we’ve conducted a poll via Twitter @sportingintel to see who our readers and other fans would select in an #AllTimeForeignXI. Without further ado, below is […]