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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 February 2012 The three-way rivalry in men’s tennis between Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer is the closest to perfection the sport has ever seen, according to new analysis by Sportingintelligence of every result in the 175 men’s singles Grand Slam tournaments of […]

By Brian Sears 10 February 2012 The Premier League remains on course for a second successive season of record scoring. In 240 games so far in 2011-12, which equates to 63 per cent of the season played, there have been 677 goals, or an average of 2.82 goals per game. If that level is maintained, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year  8 February 2012 The former Tottenham and France star David Ginola is recovering in France after a skiing accident on Tuesday left him with five broken ribs and a broken collarbone. Ginola, 45, who was the Footballer of the Year in England in 1999, has […]

By Sportingintelligence 7 February 2012 Sunday’s Super Bowl victory by the New York Giants against the New England Patriots attracted a live TV audience in America alone of 111.3 million people – making it the most watched programme in the history of US television, of any genre. That astonishing number means that more than one […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 6 February 2012 The first ‘free to air’ Premier League football match broadcast in the UK in the 20-year history of the League, between Manchester City and Fulham on Saturday, had an average audience of 903,000 viewers, and a ‘reach’ of 1.97m viewers, Sportingintelligence can […]

By Sportingintelligence 6 February 2012 In August 2010, as Facebook registered its 500 millionth active user, Sportingintelligence assessed the world’s ‘most popular’ sports teams by ‘Facebook fans’ – and Turkey’s Galatasaray came out on top. The ‘monetisation’ of sports fans via social media remains in its infancy. But in a rapidly changing multi-media world, we examined […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 February 2012 The NFL has increased its already remarkable attendance levels in the current season to an average of 67,394 fans per match, Sportingintelligence can reveal. As our updated global attendances league table shows (also below), the new figure keeps the NFL comfortably in the […]

Brian Sears 3 February 2012 Manchester United have suffered only 107 defeats in the 20 seasons of Premier League football, or 107 in 756 games to date since 1992. That’s an average of only one defeat for every seven games played. The next best club at avoiding defeat in the long term, Arsenal, have totted up […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 Mohammad Amir, 19, the youngest of the three Pakistan cricketers jailed last year for spot-fixing in the Lord’s Test in summer 2010, has been released from prison ‘in the last two hours’ according to sources close to the player. (Time of writing […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 SPORT England, the funding body that hands out taxpayers money to sports governing bodies, was kept in the dark over alleged breaches of the UK National Anti-Doping policy, Sportingintelligence can reveal  – meaning a governing body is continuing to receive a £28m […]