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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 April 2012 Football’s European governing body Uefa will show the Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea on 19 May live on a giant screen at Bayern’s old home, the Olympic Stadium, to a paying crowd of 65,000 fans, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The […]

By Brian Sears 27 April 2012 Aston Villa and Liverpool are probably both grateful not to be playing at home this weekend: both are guaranteed to finish this season with home wins tallies at record bad levels. Neither’s plight on their own turf is acceptable to their fans, but Villa’s is particularly awful – all-time terrible in their […]

By Sportingintelligence  25 April 2012 Kaka has become the first sportsman in the world to amass 10 million followers on the micro-blogging website Twitter. As this report from the Associated Press detailed when the Real Madrid footballer passed the landmark, he tweeted: ‘Thank youuuuu. To celebrate I’ll make a twitcam’. Whatever that means. Love it […]

By Brian Sears 20 April 2012 Chelsea thrashed Tottenham in the FA Cup last Sunday and showed no ill effects of that 6pm kick-off when they subsequently shocked Barcelona 1-0 in midweek – but they have yet to win a single Premier League game this season against another London team. As our inter-London tables (below) show, Chelsea […]

By Brian Sears 13 April 2012 After the surprise defeat of Manchester United by Wigan in midweek – a result that gave Wigan their first ever points against United in 14 league meetings – the title race has become a little more open again. With five games to play, Manchester City trail United by a mere […]

* As the 2012 County Championship gets underway, Scott Oliver weighs up the most successful counties in English cricket history. And looking beyond the headline finding that Yorkshire top the all-time achievement rankings, he explains how much of their success can only be recalled through the haze of the ages, and explores how the game – […]

By Brian Sears 5 April 2012 After a March slowdown in scoring, the Premier League is back on track for another season of record scoring – just. A hectic Easter schedule of football will see 20 top-flight games played between Friday night and Wednesday. In the last moments of the last day of last season, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 April 2012 APOEL Nicosia’s Champions’ League adventure looks almost certain to end this week when they complete their quarter-final tie against Real Madrid but Cypriot football remains high-flying in another sense. Cyprus has one of highest levels of attendance at domestic football in the […]

By Sportingintelligence 1 April 2012 [Table updated on morning of 2.4.12] Liverpool’s defeat at Newcastle on Sunday means the only team in the Premier League with a worse record than Kenny Dalglish’s side since the start of the year are Wolves. Liverpool have won just two games from their last dozen in the league since […]

By Brian Sears 30 March 2012 Manchester City have won all 15 of their 15 home games in the Premier League this season, and remain on course to become only the second top-division team in 124 years of English league football history to win all their home games in a season. The only other time […]