Football

By Brian Sears 13 January 2012 In 20 years of Premier League football and having played 754 games in the revamped division, Manchester United have only faced their present indignity of consecutive defeats on 13 previous occasions. By comparison, their strongest long-term rivals in the PL era, Arsenal, have had back-to-back defeats 32 times. Two league […]

By Alex Miller 13 January 2012 Leading football clubs are being heavily targeted by HMRC over perks afforded to players and WAGs  – partially because the taxman has already received information and tip-offs relating to major financial discrepancies at at least one top Premier League club, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The finance directors at all Premier […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 January 2012  BLACKBURN Rovers are planning to make net player sales in the January transfer window – with their Canadian winger Junior Hoilett almost certain to go soon – but the sell-off may not be as drastic as envisaged even a few days ago, […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 January 2012 On the first day of 2012, we draw a line under 2011 by publishing below a variety of league tables from the last calendar year in English football. This first table is a composite top 10 of any club who […]

By Brian Sears 30 December 2011 Everton have won 999 points from their 751 Premier League games to date in the PL era, so need just one more point for 1,000. It should arrive soon. Their next game is at West Brom on Sunday, then they play at home to Bolton on Wednesday 4 January. […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 December 2011 The occasion of the Premier League’s 20,000th goal, scored on Wednesday evening by Marc Albrighton and marked with a tongue-in-cheek live blog on this website, was celebrated and castigated in fairly even measure. The critics picked up on the obvious point that […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 December 2011 . This article was regularly updated until the Premier League’s 20,000th goal was scored … BUT IT’S OVER NOW PEOPLE. GO HOME .. 8.56pm. GOAL! And that’s it. Marc Albrighton of Aston Villa (v Arsenal) scored the 20,000th goal in Premier League history. Thank you and goodnight. ** Goes to […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 December 2011 Chelsea’s John Terry – also the captain of England – will face a charge of using racially abusive language towards QPR’s Anton Ferdinand, the Crown Prosecution Service said today. The Football Association launched its own investigation in October into allegations that Terry used a racially abusive term towards QPR’s Anton Ferdinand […]

By Brian Sears 21 December 2011 The Premier League’s 20,000th goal will be scored in one of Wednesday evening’s seven fixtures – barring a freaky night of low scoring that would be entirely counter to this extraordinary season so far. LIVE countdown to 20,000 HERE The revamped top-flight began in the 1992-93 season, and by […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 December 2011 A meeting between Blackburn’s board and fans’ representatives, scheduled for this week with the intention of letting supporters know what is happening at the club, has been indefinitely postponed, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The meeting, promised in exchange for a ‘truce’ on protests […]