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By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 25 March 2012 When Darlington went into administration in 2009 – the second of three times the club has now done so – they owed HMRC tax arrears of more than four hundred thousand pounds. As part of the deal that led […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 March 2012 An authoritative new report on replica kit deals across Europe’s five major leagues shows that the Premier League’s 20 clubs collectively are making more money in 2011-12 from kit supplier contracts (€109.7m or £91.5m) than their counterparts in Spain (€77.5m), Italy (€69.3m), […]

By Brian Sears 22 March 2012 Manchester City’s comeback win against Chelsea on Wednesday evening means they are just one win away from a club record tally of points in the Premier League – with nine games remaining. Their previous highest tally in a Premier League season was 71 points. That was last season when […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year  21 March 2012 Lionel Messi became Barcelona’s leading all-time goalscorer last night when he took his Barca tally to 234 goals. (In non-friendly games). You can see a video including EVERY goal here. A Sportingintelligence analysis of the Argentinean genius’s scoring for Barcelona shows: 185 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 March 2012 The global head of sports content at YouTube has ruled out any bid for live rights to show Premier League football matches now or in the foreseeable future despite describing English top-flight football as “a wonderfully powerful attractor of viewers”. In an […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 16 March 2012 As the 2011-12 Champions League quarter-finalists discover their fate today, with the most diverse line-up of clubs in the past 15 years (as outlined here), it remains true that Uefa’s showcase tournament is actually becoming narrower and narrower in it’s ‘fairness’, namely […]

By Brian Sears 15 March 2012 Accepted football wisdom already has it that Manchester United have an easier run-in than their main Premier League title rivals Manchester City. But Sportingintelligence analysis of all the remaining fixtures for all 20 teams now shows not only is that true but that United have the easiest run-in in […]

By Sportingintelligence 15 March 2012 Chelsea’s dramatic victory over Napoli in the Champions League on Wednesday night means England remain the only nation never to be without a quarter-finalist in the competition since it became for clubs other than champions, in 1997-98. With both Manchester clubs eliminated in the group stage and both Arsenal and […]

By Brian Sears 5 March 2012 After seeing their team lose to Manchester United (again) on Sunday, many Spurs fans must be thinking their record against United is one of the poorest in head-to-heads in the history of the Premier League. It is poor, certainly, with just three wins in 40 meetings since the top […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 March 2012 Blackpool’s chairman Karl Oyston has today attempted to defend paying £11m to his father Owen Oyston, who is also the club’s majority shareholder, for being a director in the season Blackpool were relegated from the Premier League. The full story about the […]