By Brian Sears 28 September 2012 For a club with aspirations to become regular top-four finishers in the Premier League, Tottenham have an absolutely woeful record in the Premier League when playing away against the clubs long known as the ‘Big Four’. In the 20 completed seasons of the Premier League they have played a […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 20 September 2012 It’s been the biggest domestic fixture in English football for the best part of four decades, and in terms of global interest in the two teams involved, it still is. Liverpool versus Manchester United remains a fixture that resonates, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 September 2012 Manchester City have announced new details about their world-class academy ‘campus’, which is spread over 80 acres, believed to be costing £100m, and is scheduled to be open for the 2014-15 season. The facility will be built by BAM construction, described as […]

By Brian Sears 14 September 2012 Arsenal have the youngest set of players in the Premier League in the 2012-13 season when considering the ages of those starting league games so far. Arsene Wenger has used 14 different starters in the three PL games of the campaign – and their average age is 25.6 years, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 September 2012 One amusing vignette in the first episode of FOX’s forthcoming fly-on-the-wall Liverpool documentary features a brief exchange between midfielder Charlie Adam and the Boston Red Sox outfielder Cody Ross. It takes place in the locker room at the home of the Red […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 September 2012 While the Premier League continues to be the most cosmopolitan football league in the world with players from dozens of countries, the most popular names across the whole of English football continue to have a familiar sound. The word cloud graphic below […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 28 August 2012 Manchester United’s manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who has been attracting headlines in recent days for his latest episode of banning a reporter for doing his job, is an autocrat on the brink of yet another record in his extraordinary career. Since taking […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2012 There were 23 openly gay athletes across all sports at the London 2012 Olympic Games according to observers who monitor such trends closely, notably Outsports.com. Ten of them won medals (43 per cent) and seven of them won gold medals (30.4 per […]

By Brian Sears 16 August 2012 Liverpool and Southampton have the toughest starts in the 2012-13 Premier League season, with Swansea and West Ham having the easiest set of opening fixtures, according to a Sportingintelligence analysis of each clubs’ opening six matches. Within an objective ‘tough rating’ system, the lower the rating, the harder the […]

By Brian Sears 15 August 2012 So the Olympic Games are over and football is facing the inevitable brickbats that will come its way ahead of the new season, which begins in England on Saturday. Of course the beautiful game can learn things from London 2012 and the Olympics as a whole, but let’s not […]