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By Sam Jackson 11 June 2015 Gianluigi Buffon demonstrated in the Champions League final last Saturday that age needn’t be an impediment to high-level performances by a goalkeeper. And as the rumour mill turns on the future of David de Gea, the debate intensifies around what price Manchester United will persuade Real Madrid to pay, and who can […]

By Sportingintelligence 2 June 2015 Chelsea’s Premier League title success has also lifted them to the top of the prize money table for 2014-15, with official figures released today showing they will pocket £98,999,554 from central funds alone. The money comes primarily from the PL’s huge TV deals but also includes Chelsea’s share of the league’s central commercial income. Manchester City were the second […]

By Nick Harris 1 June 2015 The 2015 Women’s World Cup (WWC) kicks off this coming weekend in Canada, and it will be the seventh edition of a tournament that has come a long way in short time. At the first tournament the games were 80 minutes long, there was a single sponsor, the final wasn’t shown […]

By Roger Pielke Jr 26 May 2015 Another Premier League season is in the history books, and with it another campaign where we can now assess the accuracy of forecasts made about the season. Once again, we learn that skillful prediction is really, really hard. Here I evaluate 60 predictions by fans, journalists, analytics experts and […]

By Brian Sears 24 May 2015 This is the 20th Premier League season to be played with 20 teams and 38 games per team. For the first three years there were 22 teams. Today’s first graphic shows how many points each club has won in their best PL season so far, and in their worst, and how […]

By Nick Harris 20 May 2015 Paris Saint-Germain are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2015, compiled in association with ESPN The Magazine and published today. The average first-team pay at PSG has been calculated at £5.3m per year, or £101,8983 per week in the period under review. PSG have just completed […]

By Nick Harris 18 May 2015 International workers’ unions have today joined forces with pressure groups seeking reform of football’s world governing body Fifa to demand that Fifa’s sponsors accept their corporate responsibility and challenge human rights abuses at World Cup 2022 infrastructure construction sites in Qatar. The move comes as reports are published about BBC journalists being arrested while trying […]

By Brian Sears 15 May 2015 As the graphic above attests, Premier League goal scoring has slumped to a six-year low, and barring a deluge in the final week of the season, we will finish with the lowest rates since 2008-09. Tthe 20 teams have scored 916 goals combined this season so far at a rate of […]

By Ian Herbert 15 May 2015 We now know that there are beating hearts inside the silent, implacable Glazers and that there have been ways of winding them up during their 10 years of ownership at Manchester United, a milestone reached this week. Two ways, to be precise. Joel Glazer was infuriated by the national newspaper claim as the family […]

By Nick Harris 11 May 2015 Sporting Intelligence is pleased to announce a new partnership with sports compression wear company SKINS that will help to maintain this website’s independence – and help to enable the provision of some project funding for young and upcoming sports writers. The new alliance comes on the heels of www.sportingintelligence.com […]