By Brian Sears 22 August 2013 The Premier League is not even two fixtures old and already the top three in the table – Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United – are probably most people’s idea of the final three in some order, while the three promoted clubs, among the favourites to go down, are […]

By Alex Miller 21 August 2013 The strength and popularity of the Championship has been highlighted in new research that shows England’s second-tier clubs combined sell more shirts per season than all the German, Italian, Spanish and French second-tier teams put together. According to findings released to Sportingintelligence by veteran analyst Dr Peter Rohlmann and […]

By Brian Sears 20 August 2013 It may seen ill-timed after a weekend of Premier League matches where four of the 10 games finished 1-0 and none of them were won by a 2-1 margin, but there is an unmistakeable trend in England’s top division that the 1-0 result has been overtaken by the 2-1 […]

By Alex Miller 20 August 2013 The combined shirt sponsorship income of the Premier League’s 20 clubs has again defied the recession by rising £18.65m year-on-year to a record £165.75m this season – with big winners but some fallers among the new deals. An increase in the total sponsorship revenues reconfirms the strength of the […]

By Nick Harris and Brian Sears 15 August 2013 The chances of correctly predicting the way the Premier League will finish in the 2013-14 season are minuscule; if we assumed that any team is capable of finishing in any position, the probability of getting top to bottom in the correct order is, mathematically, 2.432902e+18 to 1. […]

. By Nick Harris 11 August 2013 The Premier League in 2013-14 will again be a melting point of nations, with players from 67 countries currently represented within the first-team squads of the 20 clubs ahead of the start of the new season on 17 August. A graphical representation of where these players comes from […]

By Nick Harris 19 June 2013 Football fans from across the country will march on the Premier League’s headquarters in London today to protest at the cost of tickets to matches. The demonstration has been co-ordinated by the Liverpool fans’ union Spirit of Shankly (SoS) and is expected to involve hundreds from fans from different clubs. It […]

By Nick Harris 17 June 2013 There are 60 footballers in the ‘Big 5’ leagues of Europe who each carry a market value of £20m-plus this summer. The world’s best and most expensive player is Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, whose ‘guide price’ is between €217m and €253m (£185m-£215m). Next comes Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo (£87m-£101m), then […]

By Alex Miller 17 June 2013 Newcastle United have shocked their fans by appointing Joe Kinnear as director of football but new figures suggest that it is their medical department that could use some reinforcement. New figures show Newcastle had the worst injury record in the Premier League last season, suffering 41 ‘significant’ injuries, with […]

By Nick Harris 11 June 2013 Manchester City are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2013, compiled in association with ESPN The Magazine and published this week to coincide with The Magazine’s ‘Money Issue’ (cover below). The average first-team pay at City, who have been transformed […]