By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 May 2012 With the start of Euro 2012 less than three weeks away, with a big-match penalty shootout fresh in the memory from the 2012 Champions League final, and with the virtual certainty that one or more matches in Poland and Ukraine will go […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 27 April 2012 Football’s European governing body Uefa will show the Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea on 19 May live on a giant screen at Bayern’s old home, the Olympic Stadium, to a paying crowd of 65,000 fans, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The […]

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 6 February 2012 The NFL has the ‘fairest’ distribution of salaries across its 32 teams of any of the ‘big five’ US sports leagues (NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL and MLS) when you take into consideration the differential between the best paid team and the worst paid team. It is also much fairer than […]

. Matthew Barrett studied history at Oxford University, concentrating on the relationship between sport, politics and war in the twentieth century. He currently works in sports sponsorship and you can follow him on Twitter here. In his first piece for Sportingintelligence, he examines the impact of the Arab Spring on the performance of the Libyan national football […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 December 2011 Bill Nankeville is perched on the edge of his chair, explaining the ‘austerity’ tag routinely attached to the 1948 London Olympics, in which he ran for Britain in the 1,500 metres. ‘We ate stodge, ran on grass that became mud, didn’t do […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year in Krakow 4 December 2011 The English FA’s decision to base themselves in Krakow during Euro 2012 may inadvertently lead to a local club, Hutnik Nowa Huta, going bust, according a senior local official, Sportingintelligence can reveal. England’s training base will be the Stadion Suche […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 May 2011 . When Sepp Blatter took to the stage in Zurich on Monday, Fifa’s president declared: ‘Crisis, what is a crisis?’ In a display widely reported as “arrogant” and “contemptuous” (and which can be viewed in full here), the 75-year-old Swiss, the head […]

By Sportingintelligence 17 May 2011 France have won the right to stage the 2018 Ryder Cup, seeing off challenges from rival bids from Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal. France’s campaign had a number of high-profile supporters from sports away from golf, including Manchester City’s Patrick Vieira, who outlined France’s Ryder Cup case to sportingintelligence […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 6 April 2011 Britain’s sports minister Hugh Robertson has urged the Welsh FA not to let politics deprive Gareth Bale of his ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ to represent Great Britain at next year’s Olympics. Earlier this year, the Football Association of Wales spelt out that they will oppose […]