By Brian Sears 9 December 2011 Arsenal are the overall Premier League all-time runners-up to Manchester United in points terms to date, albeit trailing by 202 points (1607 for United and 1405 for Arsenal) in the 20 seasons of the Premier League including this one. Chelsea are in third place, 39 points behind Arsenal, and Liverpool are fourth, 61 points behind […]

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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 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 Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 December 2011 Bill Nankeville is perched on the edge of his chair, explaining the ‘austerity’ tag routinely attached to the 1948 London Olympics, in which he ran for Britain in the 1,500 metres. ‘We ate stodge, ran on grass that became mud, didn’t do […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 December 2011 The England football team are always big news in England because football is so important, and because so many England fans care about every spit and cough, and because the media know this, hence cover every angle in detail. That is the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year in Krakow 4 December 2012 Since the draw for Euro 2012 on Friday, when England were thrown together with France, Ukraine and Sweden in Group D, based in Ukraine, the FA has come in for all manner of criticism for having already picked a base […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 December 2011 Blackburn’s hierarchy were making plans to sack manager Steve Kean after Saturday’s match at Swansea, Sportingintelligence can reveal, but the 4-2 victory, and particularly the actions and words of Yakubu towards Kean during and after the win have earned the Scot a […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year in Krakow 4 December 2011 The English FA’s decision to base themselves in Krakow during Euro 2012 may inadvertently lead to a local club, Hutnik Nowa Huta, going bust, according a senior local official, Sportingintelligence can reveal. England’s training base will be the Stadion Suche […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 December 2011 Officials from six Premier League clubs made discreet separate trips to Uefa headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland over the past five days to lay the groundwork for a ‘dry run’ test of Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations, Sportingintelligence can reveal. Senior finance figures […]

By Brian Sears 2 December 2011 Steve Bruce’s sacking by Sunderland leaves six managers in the Premier League with worse records than Bruce had when he got the boot – in points per Premier League game during their reigns at their current clubs. Our table below shows all the details but Bruce had won 1.15 points […]