The A-listers

By Alex Miller 31 August 2010 As sportingintelligence reports elsewhere today, a leading German sports market research company has provided us with the findings of its detailed multi-year survey into the popularity of club football shirts. The most consistent top 10 sellers, over numerous seasons, as discovered by Dr Peter Rohlmann, are as depicted below. […]

By Brian Sears 13 August 2010 So here we are, on the eve of the 19th season of the Premier League, and Manchester United hold a lead in the all-time points table big enough to ensure they will remain top dogs even if they lose every game this campaign. They need just six more points […]

By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 Take a sample of the world’s population and ask them to nominate their favourite sports team and many experts would expect to find football’s Barcelona or Manchester United, or baseball’s New York Yankees or basketball’s LA Lakers at the top. Yet take a global sample of an enormous magnitude, […]

By Nick Harris 9 February 2010 Just as America is ahead in the all-time Summer Olympics gold medals table and an American (Michael Phelps) is way ahead in the all-time summer Games individual golds table, so one nation is also ahead at the Winter Olympics, in the collective and individual senses. And as the build-up […]

By Nick Harris 1 February 2010 A UK government report into sports-related betting corruption in Britain, published today, recommends the formation of a pan-sport integrity unit to gather intelligence on suspicious cases and co-ordinate the response.  It is generally accepted that Britain does not have a widespread problem with betting-related corruption but it has been […]

By Nick Harris 31 January 2010 Roger Federer’s win today at the Australian Open takes his tally of Grand Slam men’s singles titles to a new record high of 16, extending his advantage over Pete Sampras, who won 14. The leaderboard as it stands today is: . .

By Nick Harris 31 January 2010 A new report detailing the most-watched sports events in the world on live TV in 2009 shows the Champions League final has overtaken the Super Bowl for the first time. They were No1 and No2 in the top 20, with the Bahrain F1 Grand Prix a distant third, then […]

By Nick Harris 4 January 2010 UPDATE: See also the 2011 story here The end of the NFL’s 2009 regular season last night brought good news for the sport; even in the worst economic recession in memory, live attendance figures held up for most franchises throughout the season, with 17,282,225 seats sold for the 256 games, […]