By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 7 November 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 Sportingintelligence 7 November 2011 As we report elsewhere today, an alternative top 10 English league table for the current season – compiled by points per game won across all four professional divisions – has Manchester City at the top, followed by Manchester United, Charlton, Newcastle, Southampton, Southend, Tottenham, Crawley, Huddersfield and Chelsea. Using the […]

* By Sportingintelligence 7 November 2011 Manchester City aren’t merely the best performing team in England’s Premier League so far this season – they are, by a huge distance, the best team in any division in the country in terms of points per game. With 31 points from 11 league matches, Roberto Mancini’s side have […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 November 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 4 November 2011 Ten of the current Premier League clubs have never won a Premier League game at Old Trafford and on Saturday it will be Sunderland trying to break that duck. In 10 attempts to date, they’ve won just two points there, from these two games: 14 Apr 2006 Man Utd […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 November 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 4 November 2011 The amount of points being won at home in the Premier League is at an all-time in the 20-year history of the competition. With more than a quarter of the season gone, only 151 of 272 points have been earned by the home side – or 55.5 per cent. […]

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 the FC Sion appeal against UEFA. […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 October 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 31 October 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 […]