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By Nick Harris 19 June 2013 Football fans from across the country will march on the Premier League’s headquarters in London today to protest at the cost of tickets to matches. The demonstration has been co-ordinated by the Liverpool fans’ union Spirit of Shankly (SoS) and is expected to involve hundreds from fans from different clubs. It […]

By Nick Harris 17 June 2013 There are 60 footballers in the ‘Big 5’ leagues of Europe who each carry a market value of £20m-plus this summer. The world’s best and most expensive player is Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, whose ‘guide price’ is between €217m and €253m (£185m-£215m). Next comes Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (£87m-£101m), then […]

By Alex Miller 17 June 2013 Newcastle United have shocked their fans by appointing Joe Kinnear as director of football but new figures suggest that it is their medical department that could use some reinforcement. New figures show Newcastle had the worst injury record in the Premier League last season, suffering 41 ‘significant’ injuries, with […]

By Nick Harris 11 June 2013 Manchester City are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2013, compiled in association with ESPN The Magazine and published this week to coincide with The Magazine’s ‘Money Issue’ (cover below). The average first-team pay at City, who have been transformed […]

By Steve Menary 24 May 2013 More than a third of the football clubs across the Premier and Football League have used the taxpayer-funded website at UK Sport to advertise jobs offering no pay. That shocking statistic was unearthed for Sportingintelligence via a Freedom of Information (FoI) enquiry that shows in the past six months 15 per cent of […]

By Nick Harris 21 May 2013 Manchester United earned £60.8m in Premier League TV and prize money for winning the title in the 2012-13 season, official figures just released by the League show. A summary of what each club made in total is in the graphic immediately below while a precise breakdown of ‘equal share’, […]

By Alex Miller 20 May 2013 As England’s new football strip – made by Nike – is revealed today, new research shows the English FA are now second in the world in terms of income from their kit manufacturer. England’s deal with Nike is worth €30m (£25m) per year, and this is beaten only by […]

By Steven Slayford 13 May 2013 In yet another trophy-less season for Arsenal, the biggest prize possible for Arsene Wenger’s team is a top-four finish in the Premier League, with Wigan on Tuesday the next hurdle to clear. Infamously, former Arsenal players who have left the club since Arsenal last won a trophy – the […]

By Brian Sears 11 May 2013 Chelsea’s 2-1 win against Aston Villa on Saturday, which established Frank Lampard as Chelsea’s all-time leading goalscorer, took the Premier League’s total goals tally for the season to 999 goals – but a new scoring record that seemed probable earlier in the season looks unattainable now. Last season, the Premier […]

By Nick Harris 22 April 2013 Manchester United’s 3-0 win against Aston Villa in the Premier League this evening secured them their 20th English title, and takes their all-time haul of ‘major’ trophies to 39, just two behind Liverpool’s all-time haul of 41. For the purposes of this count, the trophies included are the league, […]