By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 January 2012 Sport, like life, is gloriously unpredictable – and hence predictions are fun at least for those able to mock at leisure when all your predictions go tits up. Still, Sportingintelligence thinks the following events might jolly well happen in 2012: Andy Murray will […]
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Premier League – the global game. How English football is seen in … Nigeria
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 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 […]
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View from Brazil: some thoughts from Santos on the enigma of beautiful Barca
JORGE VASCONCELOS is from Santos in Brazil, where he lives a couple of miles from the Estadio Urbano Caldeira – the footballing home of Pele between 1956 and 1974. Like every Brazilian, he’d claim to know what constitutes a beautiful game. And in his latest article for Sportingintelligence, in the wake of Barcelona’s 4-0 crushing of Santos in the […]
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What’s a vote worth? How Fifa’s attempt to devolve power could be a bribers’ charter
* This exclusive feature from Issue Three of The Blizzard was offered to SportingIntelligence by the collective of writers at The Blizzard. To read more brilliant and original work from the same collective download Issue Three of The Blizzard which is out now on a pay-what-you-like basis . By Steve Menary 6 December 2011 Going by […]
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Premier League – the global game. How English football is seen in … India
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 […]
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Bobby Davro’s dad: ‘Austerity Olympics? In 1948 we bulked up on sherry and ate ham from Down Under’
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 […]
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The story behind a story: how The Sun got lucky with its ‘Krakow dump’ tale
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 […]
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Krakow special: The FA were too late, not too early. Fabio’s bed. Supermodels. Elvis. Oasis. And more.
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 […]
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Sheikh Mansour, the greatest gamble in English football, and why Manchester City need to win the Champions League
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 November 2011 Manchester City’s 2-1 defeat last night at Napoli means their Champions League destiny is no longer in their own hands. Bayern Munich, the current leaders of Group A, visit the Etihad Stadium a fortnight today but City know even if they beat […]
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Cricket’s darkest statistics, and why assumptions about suicide might be wrong
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 November 2011 The untimely death at the weekend of the former cricketer and writer Peter Roebuck, who took his own life by jumping from the sixth floor of a Cape Town hotel on Saturday night, has again prompted debate about the apparently high prevalence of […]
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