By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 December 2011 Officials from six Premier League clubs made discreet separate trips to Uefa headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland over the past five days to lay the groundwork for a ‘dry run’ test of Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations, Sportingintelligence can reveal. Senior finance figures […]

By Brian Sears 2 December 2011 Steve Bruce’s sacking by Sunderland leaves six managers in the Premier League with worse records than Bruce had when he got the boot – in points per Premier League game during their reigns at their current clubs. Our table below shows all the details but Bruce had won 1.15 points […]

By Alex Miller  25 November 2011 The beleaguered RFU has received a small measure of relief from its current troubles after major sponsor Nike – the England rugby kit supplier – confirmed to Sportingintelligence that it is “not planning to change anything as a result of the recent RFU activities”. Those ‘activities’ include a shambolic […]

By Brian Sears 24 November 2011 As Swansea City’s manager Brendan Rodgers starts talks about a new contract, analysis by Sportingintelligence shows that Swansea and their fellow promoted teams in the Premier League – QPR and Norwich – each have at least a 76 per cent chance of survival this season, based on their decent […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 November 2011 Manchester City’s accounts for 2010-11, which were published last week and showed a world record annual loss for a football club of £194.9m, also revealed that City had net transfer spend of £53.6m over the summer. That was net outlay on Sergio […]

By Brian Sears 18 November 2011 The Premier League’s long-time elite quartet of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea are under ongoing threat from Manchester City, Tottenham and even Newcastle (TBC), but ‘Big Four’ games still fascinate. And on Sunday we have the  234th such contest in the Premier League’s history when Chelsea meet Liverpool […]

By Steve Menary 14 November 2011 Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs have changed their approach to disclosing British football’s tax debts just as a court case over the controversial ‘Football Creditors’ Rule’ (FCR) is about to come to the High Court. HMRC’s case against the Football League and the Premier League, which will challenge the […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 November 2011 Tottenham’s manager Harry Redknapp will face trial in January on two charges of tax evasion. Reporting restrictions around the case have been in place, and some remain, but it can now be reported that Redknapp, 64, is to be tried at Southwark […]

By Sportingintelligence 11 November 2011 England play Spain in a Wembley friendly on Saturday – and four of the Spanish squad now ply their trade in England. Liverpool’s Pepe Reina, Chelsea’s Juan Mata and Fernando Torres, and Manchester City’s David Silva could be joined in action by three players who formerly made a living in […]

By Brian Sears 11 November 2011 The Premier League will be celebrating a milestone in the coming weeks when the 20,000th goal in the competition’s history is scored. In the 19 completed seasons plus this season, there have been 19,849 goals in 7,575 games, which gives us an average of 2.62 goals per game. So […]