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By Brian Sears 14 December 2012 Chelsea will face Corinthians of Brazil on Sunday in the Club World Cup for a trophy that would nominally make them the finest club side on earth. Yet they do so against a backdrop of elimination from the 2012-13 Champions League and as their domestic form implodes. With every […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 December 2012 Barcelona have produced more footballers currently earning a living as first-team players across Europe’s elite ‘Big 5’ divisions than any other club in the world, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The Spanish giants have been responsible for the development of 38 players at top-flight […]

By Brian Sears 7 December 2012 In the past five seasons in the Premier League, no club with fewer than 26 points at this stage of the season – 15 games – has risen to a top-four finish. On that statistical reckoning, only the two Manchester clubs, plus Chelsea, Tottenham and West Bromwich Albion are in […]

Exclusive By Alex Miller 16 November 2012 Liverpool’s communications director Jen Chang has left the club, an LFC spokesman has confirmed to Sportingintelligence. Chang was recently involved in a controversial meeting with a Liverpool fan who had run a spoof Twitter account. That incident led to the fan, Sean Cummins, receiving an apology (link here). […]

By Brian Sears 16 November 2012 If Manchester City can avoid defeat at home to Aston Villa this weekend they will stretch their season’s unbeaten record to 12 games, and stretch their unbeaten home record to 36 games – the second-best unbeaten home league run in the 21-year history of the Premier League. Only Chelsea […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 6 November 2012 The Premier League is home to the oldest and the youngest football managers within Europe’s ‘Big 5’ football divisions, and England’s top division also has the most diverse range of nationalities in its managerial ranks, according to new analysis by Sportingintelligence. At […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 October 2012 Premier League attendances are more than four per cent up on the same time last year, and on course to be the highest total in England’s top division for 40 years, according to Sportingintelligence analysis. The growth is all […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 October 2012 Liverpool’s managing director Ian Ayre has apologised in writing on behalf of the club for the inappropriate behaviour of communications director Jen Chang towards Liverpool fan Sean Cummins, the creator of spoof journalist ‘Duncan Jenkins’, during a meeting between the pair on […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 29 October 2012 BT have confirmed they have signed ‘multi-year’ deals to show live matches from the top football divisions in Italy, France, Brazil and the USA on their new sports channel, BT Sport, which launches in 2013. The telecoms firm made a shock entry […]

By Brian Sears 26 October 2012 Arsenal have endured a turbulent week as their absentee American owner’s visit to London coincided with the club’s AGM and back-to-back defeats, first against Norwich in the Premier League and then against Schalke in Europe. And now they face two Premier League matches versus the two current top-flight clubs […]