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By Sportingintelligence 6 October 2011 Barcelona and their Champions League-winning coach Pep Guardiola have today confirmed they will offer exclusive ‘insider’ access to training, a signed shirt, a meet and greet with all their global stars – including Lionel Messi – plus match tickets to a Barca game in honour of Sir Bobby Robson, a […]

By Sportingintelligence 4 October 2011 The Premier League anthem (click below), which could yet be key in the ongoing TV rights legal battle. NB: Sportingintelligence may be in breach of Premier League copyright in reproducing this without a licence. As and when our lawyers tell us, it might disappear. Further reading on this site, and […]

By Sportingintelligence 1 October 2011 Harry Redknapp is the latest Premier League manager to pay tribute to the late England manager Sir Bobby Robson and donate a unique prize to the charity auction in Sir Bobby’s memory. Tottenham will donate a shirt signed by the all squad to be presented to the winning bidder by […]

By Sportingintelligence 25 September 2011 SACHIN Tendulkar, India’s foremost candidate for the title of greatest batsman in the history of Test cricket, has joined the stars of the current India team and their world No1 England counterparts to sign a cricket bat that will make a unique auction to be sold in memory of Sir […]

By Sportingintelligence 18 September 2011 JOSE Mourinho has donated the most prestigious personal trophy of his glittering career to the charity auction in memory of Sir Bobby Robson, his mentor and boss at Sporting Lisbon, Porto and Barcelona. Real Madrid’s Portuguese manager, 48, was award Fifa’s Ballon D’Or World Coach of the Year award in […]

4 September 2011 Sven Goran Eriksson has become the latest big name in football to donate a ‘money can’t buy prize’ for the October auction to raise money for Sir Bobby Robson’s foundation, while Sir Alex Ferguson is the latest to pay tribute to Sir Bobby while donating his own prize. Eriksson, a former England […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 August 2011 The sale of Samir Nasri by Arsenal to Manchester City today, hot on the sale of Cesc Fabregas, means Arsenal have now not spend a penny, net, on transfers in the past decade. In fact, as our table below shows, as things stand on the evening of Wednesday 24 August, […]

18 August 2011 By Sportingintelligence Uefa’s detailed figures showing the precise amounts of money earned by the 32 clubs involved in the Champions League in 2010-11 are in the table below, and Uefa’s article on these numbers is linked here. Payments are essentially split in performance money (dependent on results and progress) and TV cash […]

9 August 2011 The following statement has been released in connection with the London riots and this weekend’s football matches in England. As it says, there is no reason to think games outside London should be affected. However there seems to be a threat to London games. These include Fulham-Villa, QPR-Bolton and Tottenham-Everton in the […]

By Sportingintelligence 9 August 2011 As part of sportingintelligence’s preview coverage for the 2011-12 Premier League season, we have assessed each of the 20 clubs’ historical record in English football, season by season since the Second World War. An overview is published elsewhere on the site. Here are the era by era tables, including only […]