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By Brian Sears 24 January 2013 The League Cup has been grabbing all the headlines this week, what with Bradford’s utterly extraordinary (and globally significant) progress to the final; Swansea’s stirring win over Chelsea on aggregate; and that kick (or was it a poke?), by Mr Hazard upon a ballboy who happens to be the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year  23 January 2013 Bradford City’s remarkable run to the final of the 2013 English League Cup gives them the chance to become the first club in football history from any European country to win a national cup competition while playing in the fourth tier. A win […]

  By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 January 2013 The number of non-native players in the football leagues of Europe has climbed to record levels, with 36.1 per cent of all players being ‘foreign’ in the leagues in which they play, according to research released today. The CIES Football Observatory […]

By Brian Sears 10 January 2013 Premier League goal scoring is still on track to achieve record levels for a third season running, but only just and mainly thanks to the recent free-scoring exploits of the Manchester clubs, Arsenal and Chelsea – and especially two recent freakish scores from Arsenal and Chelsea. Up to today, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 6 January 2013 Andy Murray won his first title of 2013 by retaining the Brisbane International on Sunday but will need to achieve an unprecedented feat in the Open era of tennis if he is to add the Australian Open title this month. The 25-year-old Scot […]

* By Sportingintelligence 4 January 2013 The NFL has increased its attendance levels from an average of 67,394 fans per regular season game in 2011 to 67,591 in 2012, Sportingintelligence can reveal on the eve of the 2012-13 season NFL play-offs. As our updated global attendances league table shows (also below), the new figure keeps the NFL comfortably in the […]

By Brian Sears 2 January 2013 Queens Park Rangers had the joint worst record in the calendar year 2012 of any club in English professional football (four main divisions). With just seven wins in 39 matches and just 30 points from those games, QPR’s average tally of points was 0.77 points per game. This was […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 December 2012 Swansea City have the best owners of any club playing within English football according to a wide-ranging survey conducted by Sportingintelligence over the past month. Dave Whelan at Wigan has been voted the second best owner, followed by Sheikh Mansour of Manchester […]

By Brian Sears 26 December 2012 In this season of peace on earth and good will to all men, it remains an unavoidable fact that Stoke City are dull – and have been for some time. And now a new piece of statistical analysis by Sportingintelligence proves it. There have been fewer goals in Premier […]

* By Steve Menary 17 December 2012 There was little Christmas cheer from FIFA’s executive committee (ExCo) in Tokyo for Kosovo. Kosovo’s declaration of independence in February 2008 has been recognised by more than half of the United Nations’ members but the former Yugoslav Republic’s footballers are in limbo because the UN itself will not […]