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. By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 July 2012 There is typically a strong relationship between the size of a nation’s population, its financial resources and the amount of medals it wins at an Olympic Games. A variety of studies has shown this to be the case, and predictions for […]

By Andrew Brocker 3 July 2012 So with Euro 2012 concluded, was possession really nine-tenths of the score? Does the completion accuracy of your tiki-taka really correlate to your chances of getting your name on the trophy? Does the clinical ability of your players to convert a higher percentage of your shots into goals than your […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 24 June 2012 Spain have the highest ‘market value’ squad of 23 players at Euro 2012 according to assessments by Transfermarkt. Vicente Del Bosque’s reigning world and European champions, who beat France 2-0 on Saturday to reach the semi-finals, are collectively worth £579,700,000, according to the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 June 2012 So the knockout stage of Euro 2012 has arrived and with it the prospect that matches might be settled on penalties. And fate has neatly paired the quarter-finalists according to their historical success in penalty shootouts. The two nations with 100 per […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 19 June 2012   This interactive feature includes your questions (and answers to them) lower down the piece. Thanks for taking part   A companion piece to this article was published on Sunday (linked here) to consider the business thinking behind the big bids by […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 June 2012 As a group of Blackburn fans return to Lancashire this evening after three days of meetings in London with MPs and the FA about the plight of their club, Sportingintelligence publishes a letter, in full below, sent last week by the same […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 June 2012 The chaotic way in which Blackburn Rovers has been run under the ownership of Venky’s is further exposed today by the revelation that transfer policy at the club in the past year has been partly informed by tips from fans via Facebook. […]

. By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 29 May 2012 . With 10 days to go until the start of Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, the 16 competing nations confirmed their 23-man squads to Uefa on Tuesday. Links to those squads on the Uefa website are here. Sportingintelligence has analysed […]

By Alex Miller 28 May 2012 The results of new research into every significant injury suffered by every Premier League footballer in the 2011-12 season reveal that Manchester City came out as clear winners in the injury league – suffering fewer major problems than any other side. The data has been compiled by analysts at […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 May 2012 With the start of Euro 2012 less than three weeks away, with a big-match penalty shootout fresh in the memory from the 2012 Champions League final, and with the virtual certainty that one or more matches in Poland and Ukraine will go […]