By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 August 2011 Arsenal fans frustrated by lack of activity in the transfer market know their club have not been big spenders in recent times but might be shocked to realised their net transfer spend over the past decade places them only ninth among the […]

By Brian Sears 12 August 2011 If Queens Park Rangers, Norwich and Swansea can manage victories in their opening games of the new Premier League season, then they have a 75 per cent chance of staying up. That at least is what statistical history concludes. QPR begin their campaign at home to Bolton, Norwich travel […]

9 August 2011 The following statement has been released in connection with the London riots and this weekend’s football matches in England. As it says, there is no reason to think games outside London should be affected. However there seems to be a threat to London games. These include Fulham-Villa, QPR-Bolton and Tottenham-Everton in the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 August 2011 England bowler Graeme Swann has revealed how England’s ascent towards being the No1 ranked Test nation in the world was meticulously planned by a Cambridge university maths graduate and ‘stats geek’, Nathan Leamon, also the ECB’s Cricket Peformance Analyst. Victory over India […]

By Sportingintelligence 9 August 2011 As part of sportingintelligence’s preview coverage for the 2011-12 Premier League season, we have assessed each of the 20 clubs’ historical record in English football, season by season since the Second World War. An overview is published elsewhere on the site. Here are the era by era tables, including only […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris 9 August 2011 Arsenal are famously the only club in England who have enjoyed an unbroken stretch in England’s top football division since the Second World War. Indeed the Gunners have been in the top flight non-stop since 1919. The new season will be Arsenal’s 66th consecutive top-division season […]

7 August 2011 Chelsea’s new manager, Andre Villas-Boas, has paid tribute to his mentor and friend, Sir Bobby Robson, and offered his heartfelt support to the charity foundation established by the late, great England manager. The Portuguese coach has also donated a Chelsea shirt, signed by the whole squad, as well as match tickets (and […]

* 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, Ashley Wootton discusses technology in sport […]

By Brian Sears 4 August 2011 Charlton, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Preston and Huddersfield are the top five favourites in varying orders with most bookmakers to get promoted from League One this season. It is little coincidence that they are also the five clubs who have spent the most post-war years above the current division […]

By Brian Sears 4 August 2011 With a new campaign in the Football League set to start on Friday as Hull host Blackpool, the  season of guessing football league table outcomes is upon us. And according to a sportingintelligence ‘pedigree’ analysis of clubs in the Championship, history says West Ham are favourites to go up, […]