News

By Sportingintelligence 24 August 2011 Any Leeds United fans still upset at their club’s owner, Ken Bates, for calling protestors ‘morons’ last week, won’t be cheered by new research that shows their club has the highest ticket prices in the Championship. As the table below shows, the cheapest regular adult season ticket at Elland Road […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2011 The combined shirt sponsorship income of the Premier League’s 20 clubs for the 2011-12 season has jumped almost 20 per cent from £100.45m to £117.5m, sportingintelligence can reveal. (See table at bottom for full details). The £117.5m does not […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 August 2011  Arsenal would have been runners-up in the Premier League last season and Blackpool wouldn’t have been relegated if match officials hadn’t made mistakes. (See table at bottom). These are the headline findings from extensive new research that re-examined 713 ‘significant’ incidents – […]

By Brian Sears 18 August 2011 Something freakish is happening to English football in the new season – more points are being won away than at home, across all divisions. Typically you’d expect around 60 per cent of points to be won at home. This season so far, it’s 42 per cent. Full details are […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 August 2011 Arsenal fans frustrated by lack of activity in the transfer market know their club have not been big spenders in recent times but might be shocked to realised their net transfer spend over the past decade places them only ninth among the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 August 2011 England bowler Graeme Swann has revealed how England’s ascent towards being the No1 ranked Test nation in the world was meticulously planned by a Cambridge university maths graduate and ‘stats geek’, Nathan Leamon, also the ECB’s Cricket Peformance Analyst. Victory over India […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris 9 August 2011 Arsenal are famously the only club in England who have enjoyed an unbroken stretch in England’s top football division since the Second World War. Indeed the Gunners have been in the top flight non-stop since 1919. The new season will be Arsenal’s 66th consecutive top-division season […]

By Brian Sears 4 August 2011 With a new campaign in the Football League set to start on Friday as Hull host Blackpool, the  season of guessing football league table outcomes is upon us. And according to a sportingintelligence ‘pedigree’ analysis of clubs in the Championship, history says West Ham are favourites to go up, […]

By Sportingintelligence  31 July 2011 MS Dhoni’s withdrawal of his successful appeal for the wicket of Ian Bell on Sunday in the second Test between England and India at Trent Bridge has been praised by the Indian Government and cricket’s world governing body, the ICC, among others. But in some areas – notably among Indian […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 July 2011 Sven Goran Erikkson has backed Jose Mourinho as a future manage of England, and has sensationally not ruled himself out of taking the post again at some stage. The Swede, now in charge of Leicester, went head to head with the Special […]