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By Brian Sears 13 April 2012 Wolves are trying desperately to extend their Premier League status into a fifth campaign but with a nine-point gap between themselves and safety already, and just five games to go, that looks a forlorn task. There’s just no way to sugar that pill; it can’t be done. Will there be […]

By Brian Sears 6 April 2012 At the start of this Easter weekend, Manchester City trail Manchester United by five points in the Premier League title race. By the time they kick-off at Arsenal on Sunday afternoon that gap could be eight points. What greater motivation can Roberto Mancini’s men have, then – aside from […]

* JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official Centenary History). As Matthew […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 April 2012 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War. As Sportingintelligence contributor Matthew Barrett, a specialist on the subject of sport and war, details on his own blog today, tensions between Britain and Argentina continue to simmer, with sporting repercussions. […]

* By Helen Harris 28 March 2012   Ed Weston was an ‘endurance athlete’ and a ‘sporting superstar’ many decades before either of those phrases was coined. If he’d been alive today, his athletic achievements would be covered in the sports pages of the broadsheets and his private life would be on the front pages […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 25 March 2012 THERE were five sportsmen on board the Titanic when it sank on 15 April 1912, although their stories are unlikely to be given much if any attention during the eponymous ITV drama series which starts this weekend and will air in 80 […]

By Brian Sears 23 March 2012 Tottenham are winless in four Premier Leagues ahead of this weekend’s fixtures, so the last place they need to go is Chelsea, where they play at lunchtime on Saturday. Spurs’ record at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League era is woeful: no wins in 19 visits to date, just […]

* Is the Board of Control for Cricket in India really a bastion of trenchant conservatism? Judging by its steadfast refusal to adopt the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS), the answer would seem to be yes; then again, it has been in the vanguard in embracing the all-singing, all-dancing, Brave New World of Twenty20, with […]

Brian Sears 16 March 2012 The Premier League’s 20 clubs have won 772 points between them so far this season, and more than three-quarters of all the points – 588 points, or 76.1 per cent – have been won by the teams scoring the first goal. Some clubs are better than others at capitalising on […]

16 March 2012 Can you identify the sporting arena? We take an aerial view of a topical ball park, football stadium, marathon course, golf course, Games venue, race track, iconic arena, athletic theatre (some literally theatres), pitch, park, stretch of water or wherever else sport takes place. And we ask you to identify it with the help […]