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. 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 first piece for Sportingintelligence, he examines the impact of the Arab Spring on the performance of the Libyan national football […]

* Never mind Lady Gaga, Oprah Winfrey and Justin Bieber. The Queen of England, the Pope and Barack Obama also trail ROGER FEDERER in a list of the world’s most respected figures (only Nelson Mandela is higher). The Swiss is also earning more money than ever before, with an estimated annual income of £30m. Mark Hodgkinson, editor-in-chief […]

** 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 […]

Brian Sears 13 January 2012 Aston Villa are having a mediocre season when it comes to gaining points; just 23 from 20 games. Villa have only known four previous seasons when they have gained fewer points at the same stage. In 1994-95 they had only 17 points and ended 18th just escaping relegation in a league then […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 January 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 […]

By Dan Kennett 5 January 2012  MONEYBALL. As someone who works with data on a daily basis in a business environment, Moneyball appealed to me on many levels, not least because the story was so well written by Michael Lewis and the Hollywood movie was pretty entertaining too. (See trailer, article continues below). . . However, Moneyball […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Brian Sears 30 December 2011 Tottenham will soon become the first club in the Premier League era to have conceded 1,000 goals in Premier League matches. To date, they have conceded 998 in 751 Premier League games at a rate of 1.33 per game. One might reasonably expect two more at some point in […]

By Brian Sears 23 December 2011 Merry Christmas, one and all. Although if you’re a Wigan or Wolves fan, it might not be too merry. Their next games, respectively at Manchester United on Boxing Day and at Arsenal on 27 December are against teams from whom they have NEVER taken a single Premier League point. […]