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By Sportingintelligence 18 January 2012 With the role of agents under constant scrutiny by the Football Association, not least at Blackburn Rovers since January 2011 (see story here), below are the official numbers relating to agents’ fees by club in the Premier League in the past two years, as released by the League in November […]

* By Sportingintelligence 15 January 2012 . The full story explaining the context in which the letter below was sent in January 2011 is elsewhere on this website today. This letter was sent by senior figures at Blackburn Rovers to the club’s co-owner and main decision maker, Anuradha Desai. Read the full story. .     […]

. By Sportingintelligence  9 January 2012 . This article is a companion feature to the article posted here today about tennis players’ earnings. . In 2011, Novak Djokovic’s on-court earnings in tennis were $12.6m, which made him the Barcelona (highest earners in football) of the tennis world. Using the same logic, comparing a player’s on-court […]

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By Sportingintelligence 23 November 2011 Uefa has welcomed a decision by the Ukrainian authorities to make attempts to prohibit the killing of stray dogs in the country in the run-up to Euro 2012. As the Uefa article linked here says: ‘Uefa has acknowledged the measures announced by the government of Ukraine to immediately stop and […]

By Sportingintelligence  22 November 2011 Borussia Dortmund’s manager Juergen Klopp has dismissed stories that his brilliant 19-year-old German international attacking midfielder Mario Goetze could be on his way to Arsenal for £30m in January as ‘a media issue’. In an interview with the Sport1 website in his native country, Klopp said: “No one just buys […]

By Sportingintelligence 14 November 2011 It was supposed to be a landmark game, moved controversially to a midday kick-off in Spain to help Real Madrid reach a massive 7pm prime-time Saturday night audience in China. Jose Mourinho’s side duly kicked off against Osasuna at 12.00pm in Spain on 6 November, winning the game 7-1, and […]

By Sportingintelligence 30 October 2011 Below is an official PFA document showing the average wages in English football’s four division since 1984-85, except in the top flight since 1992-93, for which wages have been sourced by other means by Sportingintelligence. Elsewhere on this site today, we have taken the figures below and presented them in tables […]

. By SPORTINGINTELLIGENCE England’s Premier League is by far the nation’s most successful sporting export, watched live each week in more than 200 countries, and earning from foreign TV rights alone £1.437bn for the current three-year overseas deals (or £479m a year) as reported by sportingintelligence last year here and here. But who exactly watches? And where? Why? How much? […]

* By Sportingintelligence 9 October 2011 The online auction to raise funds in memory of Sir Bobby Robson – with amazing lots involving Lionel Messi, Barcelona, Jose Mourinho, Pele, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and many, many more – is now live. You can visit to charity home page here. You can go straight to […]