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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 15 May 2012 Manchester City sealed the 2011-12 Premier League title in the most dramatic fashion on Sunday, and now know the precise financial reward for the season from Premier League central funds: £60,602,289. The massive sums on offer for simply being a member of […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 May 2012 Money has helped to fuel success as long as the English football league has existed – so that’s about 124 years. So while saying that Manchester City bought the 2011-12 Premier League title is true (they would not have done it without […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 May 2012 As Blackburn’s manager Steve Kean prepares to leave for India on Tuesday evening for talks with the club’s owners on Wednesday, a critical difference of opinion over his fate persists; on one side are senior club officials at Ewood Park and at […]

By Brian Sears 11 May 2012 So another Premier League season, the 20th since the top flight of the English game was revamped into the cosmopolitan cashfest of today, is coming to a close. And yet there is still so much to be resolved, not least from a statistical point of view the following eight […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 10 May 2012 One of Blackburn’s co-owners has claimed today that former deputy CEO Paul Hunt was sacked yesterday for cost-cutting reasons. Sportingintelligence has learned Hunt was sacked late on Tuesday in the wake of the publication by this website (see story) of an emailed […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 8 May 2012 An extraordinary letter written in late December by Blackburn Rovers’ deputy CEO Paul Hunt to the club’s owner, Anuradha Desai, has laid bare the crisis that has been gripping the club all season. READ THE LETTER IN FULL on our Facebook page […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 May 2012 As revealed earlier this week, Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey 2012 has again found Barcelona to be the world’s best paid sports team. CLICK HERE to read more detail about the 278 featured teams from 14 leagues in 10 countries from seven […]

By Brian Sears 4 May 2012 Premier League teams collectively have won fewer points at home than in any other season in the top-flight’s 20-year history. As the graphic below shows, just 57.3 per cent of all points have been won at home this season. Typically the figure is just above 60 per cent and […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year  1 May 2012 Barcelona remain the best paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, with Real Madrid in second place but Manchester City of the Premier League have stormed into the top three and continue to close the gap on the Spanish […]

By Brian Sears 30 April 2012 The Premier League remains on course for a second consecutive season of record goal-scoring overall, but one new record has already just been set. The hat-tricks from Luis Suarez and Fernando Torres on Sunday mean there have been 19 trebles this season so far – more than in any […]