Features

By Sportingintelligence 7 November 2011 As we report elsewhere today, an alternative top 10 English league table for the current season – compiled by points per game won across all four professional divisions – has Manchester City at the top, followed by Manchester United, Charlton, Newcastle, Southampton, Southend, Tottenham, Crawley, Huddersfield and Chelsea. Using the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 November 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 4 November 2011 Ten of the current Premier League clubs have never won a Premier League game at Old Trafford and on Saturday it will be Sunderland trying to break that duck. In 10 attempts to date, they’ve won just two points there, from these two games: 14 Apr 2006 Man Utd […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 November 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 […]

THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at the UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues of the day. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon discusses the FC Sion appeal against UEFA. […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 October 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 Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 October 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 […]

Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 October 2011 When Everton won the First Division title in 1984-85, a typical XI would have been Southall, Stevens, Van Den Hauwe, Ratcliffe, Mountfield, Reid, Steven, Heath, Sharp, Bracewell and Sheedy, with plenty of appearances as well for some bloke called Andy Gray. The top […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 October 2011 Earlier this month, a report was published that said the Premier League was watched by 4.7bn people and that games were streamed into 643m households around the planet. On no! Here we go again. That was the view of a number […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 October 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 […]