* By Sportingintelligence 4 January 2013 The NFL has increased its attendance levels from an average of 67,394 fans per regular season game in 2011 to 67,591 in 2012, Sportingintelligence can reveal on the eve of the 2012-13 season NFL play-offs. As our updated global attendances league table shows (also below), the new figure keeps the NFL comfortably in the […]

By Brian Sears 2 January 2013 Queens Park Rangers had the joint worst record in the calendar year 2012 of any club in English professional football (four main divisions). With just seven wins in 39 matches and just 30 points from those games, QPR’s average tally of points was 0.77 points per game. This was […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 31 December 2012 Swansea City have the best owners of any club playing within English football according to a wide-ranging survey conducted by Sportingintelligence over the past month. Dave Whelan at Wigan has been voted the second best owner, followed by Sheikh Mansour of Manchester […]

By Brian Sears 26 December 2012 In this season of peace on earth and good will to all men, it remains an unavoidable fact that Stoke City are dull – and have been for some time. And now a new piece of statistical analysis by Sportingintelligence proves it. There have been fewer goals in Premier […]

* By Steve Menary 17 December 2012 There was little Christmas cheer from FIFA’s executive committee (ExCo) in Tokyo for Kosovo. Kosovo’s declaration of independence in February 2008 has been recognised by more than half of the United Nations’ members but the former Yugoslav Republic’s footballers are in limbo because the UN itself will not […]

By Brian Sears 14 December 2012 Chelsea will face Corinthians of Brazil on Sunday in the Club World Cup for a trophy that would nominally make them the finest club side on earth. Yet they do so against a backdrop of elimination from the 2012-13 Champions League and as their domestic form implodes. With every […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 December 2012 Barcelona have produced more footballers currently earning a living as first-team players across Europe’s elite ‘Big 5’ divisions than any other club in the world, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The Spanish giants have been responsible for the development of 38 players at top-flight […]

By Brian Sears 7 December 2012 In the past five seasons in the Premier League, no club with fewer than 26 points at this stage of the season – 15 games – has risen to a top-four finish. On that statistical reckoning, only the two Manchester clubs, plus Chelsea, Tottenham and West Bromwich Albion are in […]

Exclusive By Alex Miller 16 November 2012 Liverpool’s communications director Jen Chang has left the club, an LFC spokesman has confirmed to Sportingintelligence. Chang was recently involved in a controversial meeting with a Liverpool fan who had run a spoof Twitter account. That incident led to the fan, Sean Cummins, receiving an apology (link here). […]

By Brian Sears 16 November 2012 If Manchester City can avoid defeat at home to Aston Villa this weekend they will stretch their season’s unbeaten record to 12 games, and stretch their unbeaten home record to 36 games – the second-best unbeaten home league run in the 21-year history of the Premier League. Only Chelsea […]