Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 October 2011 When Everton won the First Division title in 1984-85, a typical XI would have been Southall, Stevens, Van Den Hauwe, Ratcliffe, Mountfield, Reid, Steven, Heath, Sharp, Bracewell and Sheedy, with plenty of appearances as well for some bloke called Andy Gray. The top […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 October 2011 The amount of money paid to English professional footballers each season since 1984-85 is revealed in detail for the first time today. Sportingintelligence has obtained an official PFA document showing the average basic weekly wages, division by division, for […]

By Sportingintelligence 30 October 2011 Below is an official PFA document showing the average wages in English football’s four division since 1984-85, except in the top flight since 1992-93, for which wages have been sourced by other means by Sportingintelligence. Elsewhere on this site today, we have taken the figures below and presented them in tables […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 October 2011 Manchester United matches attract almost 52 per cent of the Premier League’s entire global TV audience according to exclusive Sportingintelligence analysis of the latest industry data and separate internal United figures prepared by independent experts. This highlights how important United are to […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 October 2011 Earlier this month, a report was published that said the Premier League was watched by 4.7bn people and that games were streamed into 643m households around the planet. On no! Here we go again. That was the view of a number […]

By Alexandra Willis 27 October 2011 Nick Bollettieri has offered his support to the Women’s Tennis Association in their battle to contain the presence of grunting on the tennis tour, revealing that he and his team are already exploring the ways to teach young juniors not to grunt. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Bollettieri, also […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 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 Brian Sears 27 October 2011 Chelsea are on the verge of overtaking Arsenal as the No1 club within London over the entirety of the Premier League era. Both teams have played 177 London derbies in the Premier League to date, with Arsenal amassing 321 points, and Chelsea gaining 318. (For the full London derby table, […]

. By SPORTINGINTELLIGENCE 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 year here and here. But who exactly watches? And where? Why? How much? […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 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 […]