By Steve Menary 24 May 2013 More than a third of the football clubs across the Premier and Football League have used the taxpayer-funded website at UK Sport to advertise jobs offering no pay. That shocking statistic was unearthed for Sportingintelligence via a Freedom of Information (FoI) enquiry that shows in the past six months 15 per cent of […]

By Nick Harris 21 May 2013 Manchester United earned £60.8m in Premier League TV and prize money for winning the title in the 2012-13 season, official figures just released by the League show. A summary of what each club made in total is in the graphic immediately below while a precise breakdown of ‘equal share’, […]

By Alex Miller 20 May 2013 As England’s new football strip – made by Nike – is revealed today, new research shows the English FA are now second in the world in terms of income from their kit manufacturer. England’s deal with Nike is worth €30m (£25m) per year, and this is beaten only by […]

By Steven Slayford 13 May 2013 In yet another trophy-less season for Arsenal, the biggest prize possible for Arsene Wenger’s team is a top-four finish in the Premier League, with Wigan on Tuesday the next hurdle to clear. Infamously, former Arsenal players who have left the club since Arsenal last won a trophy – the […]

By Brian Sears 11 May 2013 Chelsea’s 2-1 win against Aston Villa on Saturday, which established Frank Lampard as Chelsea’s all-time leading goalscorer, took the Premier League’s total goals tally for the season to 999 goals – but a new scoring record that seemed probable earlier in the season looks unattainable now. Last season, the Premier […]

By Nick Harris 22 April 2013 Manchester United’s 3-0 win against Aston Villa in the Premier League this evening secured them their 20th English title, and takes their all-time haul of ‘major’ trophies to 39, just two behind Liverpool’s all-time haul of 41. For the purposes of this count, the trophies included are the league, […]

By Nick Harris 17 April 2013 Cardiff City’s guaranteed promotion to the Premier League means that half of the 92 clubs in English football’s four main divisions next season will have tasted Premier League football at some point since 1992. That means being in the Premier League is on the brink of being a ‘majority […]

By Nick Harris 16 April 2013 Manchester United are England’s most popular football team across social media as well as the most successful on the pitch according to a new table that rates the Premier League’s 20 clubs on followers across three of the biggest digital platforms: Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Even though United have […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year                                             25 March 2013 The story of Robert Beal, also known as “The man who hoaxed The Times,” might be amusing if it did not […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 March 2013 The American lawyer investigating the circumstances in which the 2022 World Cup was awarded to Qatar has urged anyone with information that could prove wrongdoing in the bidding process to share that information as soon as possible. Michael Garcia is a former […]