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By Sportingintelligence 12 December 2011 Tickets for Euro 2012 have gone on general sale this morning via the Uefa website, with demand from fans of some nations so high – especially England – that the site has periodically flashed up messages saying it cannot handle the volume. The message asks supporters to try later. The […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 December 2011 Blackburn Rovers’ owners have been asked by their bankers Barclays to make a £10m deposit into the club bank account by 31 December or else risk that they will burst their overdraft limit in the near future. One possible outcome in this […]

By Sportingintelligence  10 December 2011 With 21 goals scored in seven Premier League games in England on Saturday, the total number of Premier League goals to date is now 19,955 – or 45 goals away from the 20,000th goal milestone. Manchester United scored four on Saturday to beat Wolves 4-1 while Norwich also scored four […]

By Alex Miller 10 December 2011 Elite football is not totally immune from the recession after all: the six national teams in Europe with the most lucrative headline sponsorships will go to Euro 2012 with combined deals worth less money than they had at the 2010 World Cup. While top club wages, bonuses, endorsement deals […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 December 2011 Blackburn’s hierarchy were making plans to sack manager Steve Kean after Saturday’s match at Swansea, Sportingintelligence can reveal, but the 4-2 victory, and particularly the actions and words of Yakubu towards Kean during and after the win have earned the Scot a […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year in Krakow 4 December 2011 The English FA’s decision to base themselves in Krakow during Euro 2012 may inadvertently lead to a local club, Hutnik Nowa Huta, going bust, according a senior local official, Sportingintelligence can reveal. England’s training base will be the Stadion Suche […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 December 2011 Officials from six Premier League clubs made discreet separate trips to Uefa headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland over the past five days to lay the groundwork for a ‘dry run’ test of Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations, Sportingintelligence can reveal. Senior finance figures […]

By Brian Sears 2 December 2011 Steve Bruce’s sacking by Sunderland leaves six managers in the Premier League with worse records than Bruce had when he got the boot – in points per Premier League game during their reigns at their current clubs. Our table below shows all the details but Bruce had won 1.15 points […]

By Alex Miller  25 November 2011 The beleaguered RFU has received a small measure of relief from its current troubles after major sponsor Nike – the England rugby kit supplier – confirmed to Sportingintelligence that it is “not planning to change anything as a result of the recent RFU activities”. Those ‘activities’ include a shambolic […]

By Brian Sears 24 November 2011 As Swansea City’s manager Brendan Rodgers starts talks about a new contract, analysis by Sportingintelligence shows that Swansea and their fellow promoted teams in the Premier League – QPR and Norwich – each have at least a 76 per cent chance of survival this season, based on their decent […]