By Sportingintelligence 24 August 2011 Any Leeds United fans still upset at their club’s owner, Ken Bates, for calling protestors ‘morons’ last week, won’t be cheered by new research that shows their club has the highest ticket prices in the Championship. As the table below shows, the cheapest regular adult season ticket at Elland Road […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 August 2011 The sale of Samir Nasri by Arsenal to Manchester City today, hot on the sale of Cesc Fabregas, means Arsenal have now not spend a penny, net, on transfers in the past decade. In fact, as our table below shows, as things stand on the evening of Wednesday 24 August, […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2011 The combined shirt sponsorship income of the Premier League’s 20 clubs for the 2011-12 season has jumped almost 20 per cent from £100.45m to £117.5m, sportingintelligence can reveal. (See table at bottom for full details). The £117.5m does not […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2011 Manchester City’s storming start to the 2011-12 Premier League season has highlighted their potential and reminded us how much they’ve spent in recent years. I calculate that Sheikh Mansour has spent around £750m since 2008 on acquiring the club, paying off debts, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 August 2011 THROUGH the darkest night of Yamilé Aldama’s life, she lay awake with her eight-month-old son next to her, a candle on the table beside them – and with no idea what the future held. Earlier that day, 13 June 2002, she’d been […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 August 2011  Arsenal would have been runners-up in the Premier League last season and Blackpool wouldn’t have been relegated if match officials hadn’t made mistakes. (See table at bottom). These are the headline findings from extensive new research that re-examined 713 ‘significant’ incidents – […]

By Brian Sears 19 August 2011   There was one table that Chelsea topped last season where Manchester United didn’t make the top four – the number of Premier League ‘doubles’ achieved within the 2010-11 season. Chelsea did six doubles – winning home and away against six different opponents, with Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham […]

18 August 2011 By Sportingintelligence Uefa’s detailed figures showing the precise amounts of money earned by the 32 clubs involved in the Champions League in 2010-11 are in the table below, and Uefa’s article on these numbers is linked here. Payments are essentially split in performance money (dependent on results and progress) and TV cash […]

By Brian Sears 18 August 2011 Something freakish is happening to English football in the new season – more points are being won away than at home, across all divisions. Typically you’d expect around 60 per cent of points to be won at home. This season so far, it’s 42 per cent. Full details are […]

THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses sports contingency insurance given the […]