Features

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 August 2012 . The 2012-13 Premier League kicked off at the weekend and this is what it looked like: Each flag on the graphic represents one player involved in one of the nine Premier League games played on Saturday and Sunday, from Arsenal’s Polish […]

By Brian Sears 16 August 2012 In the 20 years of the Premier League, Arsenal have played 386 home league games and lost just 48 of them. Seven clubs in the current Premier League have never won in the PL era at Arsenal, and the first visitors of this season, Sunderland, are among them. They […]

* GAVIN FLEIG is the head of performance analysis at the reigning Premier League champions, Manchester City. He heads up a full-time performance analysis staff of 10 people at City alone, with six focussing on developing players and four on first-team analytics. With ‘soccermetrics’ analysis still in its infancy, City are about the launch a […]

* ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her backhand in her spare time. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went to Oxford (and not just shopping). . . By Alexandra Willis […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 August 2012 In 1999, I met a 16-year-old kid called Mo who said it would mean a great deal to run for Britain. He was one of 110 promising British youngsters at an ‘Olympic futures’ training camp in Florida. I was reporting on it […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 July 2012 BRITAIN cares so much about the GB Olympic football team that after London 2012 it will be disbanded and will never play again. There has been no GB involvement in Olympic football since Britain failed to qualify for the 1972 Games in […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 17 June 2012 Jaws dropped, mine included, when the Premier League held a press conference last Wednesday at the Landmark Hotel in London to announce they had sold their UK live TV rights for 2013-16 to Sky and BT – for £3.018bn. This represented a […]

* Matthew Barrett studied history at Oxford University, concentrating on the relationship between sport, politics and war in the twentieth century. He currently works in sports sponsorship and you can follow him on Twitter here. In his latest piece for Sportingintelligence, on the eve of Euro 2012, which starts with a game between co-hosts Poland and 2004 champions Greece […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 7 June 2012 WHEN Manchester United announced last week that they had 659 million followers and are thus “the most popular club in the most popular sport in the world”, the figures were met with widespread scepticism, even derision. But I can only speak for […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 May 2012   An abbreviated version of this feature appeared in the Mail on Sunday (see scan at bottom, online link here).   AT THE end of Roman Abramovich’s nine-year wait for the biggest prize in global club football, Chelsea’s billionaire owner went down […]