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* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 The documents scanned below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. UKAD is the agency that polices anti-doping in the UK. The […]

By Brian Sears 30 January 2012 Very early in the current English football season, we considered the freakish number of away points being accumulated across the divisions. At that stage a minority of points were being won at home. That was never going to last but with almost 60 per cent of the Premier League […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 January 2012 Blackburn Rovers’ Indian owners have made a ‘goodwill’ payment believed to be around £2m to their bankers Barclays, Sportingintelligence has learned. This money was in response to a demand from the bank that Venky’s pay £10m by 31 December 2011 to ease […]

By Sportingintelligence 23 January 2012 SERENA Williams, eliminated from the Australian Open on Monday after losing her fourth-round match against Ekaterina Makarova in straight sets, has today been revealed at the most heavily fined player in women’s tennis. The 30-year-old American, who has won 13 Grand Slam singles titles (five Australian Opens, one French Open, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 January 2012 A new demographic study of European football, published today by the CIES Football Observatory in Switzerland, contains detailed analysis of 12,410 footballers at 500 clubs in the top divisions of 33 European countries, reporting among other things how the Russian Premier League […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 January 2012 The 20 clubs in England’s Premier League are using more ‘club-trained’ players in the 2011-12 season than their counterparts in the top division of Germany’s Bundesliga, a new study shows. Given that the Premier League is sometimes criticised as a cash-rich league […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 January 2012 Clubs in the Russian Premier League, a 16-team division awash with plutocratic ‘new money’, especially from the oil sector, are rapidly closing the gap in quality between themselves and leading clubs from the top divisions in Europe’s ‘big five’ leagues, according to […]

By Sportingintelligence 22 January 2012 The ongoing crisis surrounding the ownership of Blackburn Rovers by the Indian poultry conglomerate Venky’s is the focus today (22 January) of a huge four-page feature in the Sunday edition of the Economic Times of India – the most respected title in its field. The paper’s editor has deemed it […]

By Brian Sears 19 January 2012 In the 19 completed Premier League seasons Tottenham have never won more than seven games away from White Hart Lane in any one league campaign. This season they have already won six of their 10 games on the road. Their next away challenge is Sunday’s journey to Manchester City. Manchester […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 16 January 2012 While no evidence has yet been found of FA rule-breaking at Blackburn Rovers, Sportingingelligence has learned that the Football Association have had a ‘watching brief’ on the club since January 2011 and have taken a particular interest in the activities of agents. […]