Football

By Brian Sears 21 August 2015 No Premier League team in the past 22 seasons has won the title after winning a single point or less in their first two games. So in that sense, purely statistically, Chelsea have a slim chance of retaining their crown. They have one point from two games. In fact the only […]

By Brian Sears 7 August 2015 There are many ways to try to predict the winners of the Premier League title, as this site explored in great detail two years ago. The odds on getting even the top 10 in the correct order are 670,442,572,800 to 1. Yes, that’s 670 billion to one. And then to complete the […]

By Alex Miller                                                            20 July 2015 Chelsea and Liverpool’s new shirt sponsorship deals have helped push the combined total value for Premier League shirt deals through […]

By Sam Jackson 11 June 2015 Gianluigi Buffon demonstrated in the Champions League final last Saturday that age needn’t be an impediment to high-level performances by a goalkeeper. And as the rumour mill turns on the future of David de Gea, the debate intensifies around what price Manchester United will persuade Real Madrid to pay, and who can […]

By Sportingintelligence 2 June 2015 Chelsea’s Premier League title success has also lifted them to the top of the prize money table for 2014-15, with official figures released today showing they will pocket £98,999,554 from central funds alone. The money comes primarily from the PL’s huge TV deals but also includes Chelsea’s share of the league’s central commercial income. Manchester City were the second […]

By Nick Harris 1 June 2015 The 2015 Women’s World Cup (WWC) kicks off this coming weekend in Canada, and it will be the seventh edition of a tournament that has come a long way in short time. At the first tournament the games were 80 minutes long, there was a single sponsor, the final wasn’t shown […]

By Brian Sears 24 May 2015 This is the 20th Premier League season to be played with 20 teams and 38 games per team. For the first three years there were 22 teams. Today’s first graphic shows how many points each club has won in their best PL season so far, and in their worst, and how […]

By Nick Harris 20 May 2015 Paris Saint-Germain are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2015, compiled in association with ESPN The Magazine and published today. The average first-team pay at PSG has been calculated at £5.3m per year, or £101,8983 per week in the period under review. PSG have just completed […]

By Nick Harris 18 May 2015 International workers’ unions have today joined forces with pressure groups seeking reform of football’s world governing body Fifa to demand that Fifa’s sponsors accept their corporate responsibility and challenge human rights abuses at World Cup 2022 infrastructure construction sites in Qatar. The move comes as reports are published about BBC journalists being arrested while trying […]

By Brian Sears 15 May 2015 As the graphic above attests, Premier League goal scoring has slumped to a six-year low, and barring a deluge in the final week of the season, we will finish with the lowest rates since 2008-09. Tthe 20 teams have scored 916 goals combined this season so far at a rate of […]