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By Sportingintelligence 23 July 2012 The American sports channel Fox Soccer will air a six-part ‘fly on the wall’ documentary about Liverpool in the Autumn, with the first episode due to be screened in the USA on 16 September. The show will air in the UK on Channel 5. A trailer is below.   . […]

By Sportingintelligence 3 July 2012 It was 76 years ago today that Fred Perry was the last British man to date to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title. He triumphed 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 over Germany’s injured Gottfried von Cramm. The match was played on 3 July 1936, a Friday. This is the report that appeared on […]

By Sportingintelligence 5 June 2012 As this website revealed last month in our annual global sports salaries survey (click here for more), Barcelona are the world’s best paid sports team by average first-team salary, at £5.2m per player per year each. We have also depicted the salary spreads in each of the 14 featured leagues […]

* By Sportingintelligence 31 May 2012 So Brendan Rodgers will succeed Kenny Dalglish as the manager of Liverpool, becoming the 19th different person to hold that job on a permanent basis since 1892. He inherits the reigns at the club in English football with more ‘major’ trophies than any other club: 41 of them. For […]

By Sportingintelligence May 2012 . From time to time, Sportingintelligence will be adding word cloud images into this gallery, representing stories that appear on this website. Most recent additions on top. Scroll down for more. . 5 The Premier League’s TV rights sale for the 2013-16 seasons and what it means     Read story .  […]

By Sportingintelligence 6 May 2012 Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salary Survey 2012 (PDF available) was published on Tuesday 2 May. The main news story and headline findings appeared on this site on Tuesday. CLICK HERE for details. And there are GRAPHIC illustrations here. This year’s survey was again conducted in association with ESPN The Magazine in […]

By Sportingintelligence 23 April 2012 The London Olympics, like any summer Games, has become as much about a rush for businesses to exploit the massive media exposure it generates as about winning medals. Which is why companies like EDF pull stunts like the one below, dressing British cycling heroine Victoria Pendleton in wire for publicity. […]

By Sportingintelligence 22 April 2012 In 2010, in Sportingintelligence’s inaugural review of global sports salaries, the New York Yankees were revealed to be the world’s best paid sports team by average first-team salary. The 2010 report was here. It made global headlines HERE. In 2011, Barcelona and Read Madrid usurped the Yankees, as we reported […]

By Sportingintelligence  21 March 2012 Lionel Messi scored his 232nd, 233rd and 234th goals for Barcelona last night, making him the club’s all-time top scorer in official matches. For a COMPREHENSIVE statistical analysis, click here. (Breakdown of goals by foot, opponent etcetera).  Four other players have scored more for Barca including in friendlies: Paulino Alcántara (369 goals); Josep […]

By Sportingintelligence 14 March 2012 An anti-doping conference at Twickenham today includes an appearance by UKAD’s Richard Redman, the official who personally oversaw the investigation into the Martin Gleeson & Hull FC rugby league drugs cover-up. The Mail on Sunday and Sportingintelligence covered this in depth earlier this year. Articles linked here. Questions remain, however, […]