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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 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 26 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 Brian Sears  26 October 2011 What with all the brouhaha about alleged incidents that have nothing to do with any beautiful game, it’s been easy to forget that QPR’s defeat of Chelsea at the weekend ended an unbeaten run of more than 10 years by Chelsea against promoted sides in the Premier League. As […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 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 24 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 24 October 2011 Manchester City’s evisceration of Manchester United on Sunday was orchestrated by foreign stars, with the six goals split between imports Mario Balotelli, Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Edin Dzeko. It’s not unusual these days for Premier League sides to be full of […]

By Brian Sears 20 October 2011 Aston Villa are the most successful Midlands team in the Premier League’s 20-year history, being the only ever-present club in the revamped top flight and managing 1.43 points per game on average in their 742 games to date. West Brom are the least successful Premier League team from the Midlands in the […]

By Sportingintelligence 17 October 2011 At a conference in London on Monday, the chief executive of the League Managers’ Association, Richard Bevan, claimed there were foreign owners of Premier League teams who wanted to end relegation from England’s top division. A ‘closed shop’, he said, is attractive to owners who want to protect their investment. […]

By Brian Sears 13 October 2011 We can argue until the cows come home about the biggest rivalries and the biggest clubs in English football but there’s not a lot to argue about really. Two clubs have been dominant in winning the English title (19-18 is the current score with the rest also-rans) and they […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 October 2011 In early 1999 when Glenn Hoddle’s time as England manager came to an end in the wake of ‘them things’ that he said about reincarnation, the FA hired Kevin Keegan and the Three Lions rollercoaster was set fair for its latest lurch […]