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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 November 2011 Manchester City’s accounts for 2010-11, which were published last week and showed a world record annual loss for a football club of £194.9m, also revealed that City had net transfer spend of £53.6m over the summer. That was net outlay on Sergio […]

By Brian Sears 18 November 2011 The Premier League’s long-time elite quartet of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea are under ongoing threat from Manchester City, Tottenham and even Newcastle (TBC), but ‘Big Four’ games still fascinate. And on Sunday we have the  234th such contest in the Premier League’s history when Chelsea meet Liverpool […]

By Steve Menary 14 November 2011 Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs have changed their approach to disclosing British football’s tax debts just as a court case over the controversial ‘Football Creditors’ Rule’ (FCR) is about to come to the High Court. HMRC’s case against the Football League and the Premier League, which will challenge the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 November 2011 Tottenham’s manager Harry Redknapp will face trial in January on two charges of tax evasion. Reporting restrictions around the case have been in place, and some remain, but it can now be reported that Redknapp, 64, is to be tried at Southwark […]

By Sportingintelligence 11 November 2011 England play Spain in a Wembley friendly on Saturday – and four of the Spanish squad now ply their trade in England. Liverpool’s Pepe Reina, Chelsea’s Juan Mata and Fernando Torres, and Manchester City’s David Silva could be joined in action by three players who formerly made a living in […]

By Brian Sears 11 November 2011 The Premier League will be celebrating a milestone in the coming weeks when the 20,000th goal in the competition’s history is scored. In the 19 completed seasons plus this season, there have been 19,849 goals in 7,575 games, which gives us an average of 2.62 goals per game. So […]

* By Sportingintelligence 7 November 2011 Manchester City aren’t merely the best performing team in England’s Premier League so far this season – they are, by a huge distance, the best team in any division in the country in terms of points per game. With 31 points from 11 league matches, Roberto Mancini’s side have […]

By Brian Sears 4 November 2011 The amount of points being won at home in the Premier League is at an all-time in the 20-year history of the competition. With more than a quarter of the season gone, only 151 of 272 points have been earned by the home side – or 55.5 per cent. […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 October 2011 The amount of money paid to English professional footballers each season since 1984-85 is revealed in detail for the first time today. Sportingintelligence has obtained an official PFA document showing the average basic weekly wages, division by division, for […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 October 2011 Manchester United matches attract almost 52 per cent of the Premier League’s entire global TV audience according to exclusive Sportingintelligence analysis of the latest industry data and separate internal United figures prepared by independent experts. This highlights how important United are to […]