By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year  8 February 2012 The former Tottenham and France star David Ginola is recovering in France after a skiing accident on Tuesday left him with five broken ribs and a broken collarbone. Ginola, 45, who was the Footballer of the Year in England in 1999, has […]

By Sportingintelligence 7 February 2012 Sunday’s Super Bowl victory by the New York Giants against the New England Patriots attracted a live TV audience in America alone of 111.3 million people – making it the most watched programme in the history of US television, of any genre. That astonishing number means that more than one […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 6 February 2012 The first ‘free to air’ Premier League football match broadcast in the UK in the 20-year history of the League, between Manchester City and Fulham on Saturday, had an average audience of 903,000 viewers, and a ‘reach’ of 1.97m viewers, Sportingintelligence can […]

By Sportingintelligence 6 February 2012 In August 2010, as Facebook registered its 500 millionth active user, Sportingintelligence assessed the world’s ‘most popular’ sports teams by ‘Facebook fans’ – and Turkey’s Galatasaray came out on top. The ‘monetisation’ of sports fans via social media remains in its infancy. But in a rapidly changing multi-media world, we examined […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 5 February 2012 The NFL has increased its already remarkable attendance levels in the current season to an average of 67,394 fans per match, Sportingintelligence can reveal. As our updated global attendances league table shows (also below), the new figure keeps the NFL comfortably in the […]

Brian Sears 3 February 2012 Manchester United have suffered only 107 defeats in the 20 seasons of Premier League football, or 107 in 756 games to date since 1992. That’s an average of only one defeat for every seven games played. The next best club at avoiding defeat in the long term, Arsenal, have totted up […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 SPORT England, the funding body that hands out taxpayers money to sports governing bodies, was kept in the dark over alleged breaches of the UK National Anti-Doping policy, Sportingintelligence can reveal  – meaning a governing body is continuing to receive a £28m […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 1 February 2012 The documents scanned below are part of a huge secret dossier of evidence amassed by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) during an investigation into the biggest drugs cover-up in British sporting history. UKAD is the agency that polices anti-doping in the UK. The […]

By Brian Sears 30 January 2012 Very early in the current English football season, we considered the freakish number of away points being accumulated across the divisions. At that stage a minority of points were being won at home. That was never going to last but with almost 60 per cent of the Premier League […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 January 2012 Blackburn Rovers’ Indian owners have made a ‘goodwill’ payment believed to be around £2m to their bankers Barclays, Sportingintelligence has learned. This money was in response to a demand from the bank that Venky’s pay £10m by 31 December 2011 to ease […]