By Nick Harris 6 October 2010 Liverpool’s board has announced this morning that it has agreed to sell the club to New England Sports Ventures, the parent company of the Boston Red Sox whose major stakeholders include John W Henry, Tom Werner, and the New York Times Company. The sale is conditional on Premier League […]

By Pete Wilson 6 October 2010 England’s bid for the 2018 World Cup steps up a level today with 18 pledges to target groups that could yet influence the choice of hosts for the tournament. In a carefully delivered message aimed at winning support from Fifa Executive Committe members, fans and the international media, the […]

By Nick Harris 6 October 2010 The acrimonious battle for control of Liverpool is taking a series of extraordinary twists following two “credible” bids for the club which were rejected on Tuesday by owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who are now seeking to remove MD Christian Purslow and commercial director Ian Ayre from the […]

By Nick Harris 4 October 2010 Graeme McDowell has become the clear favourite to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award after winning the crucial deciding match in the Ryder Cup this afternoon to regain the trophy for Europe from America. McDowell, 31, from Portrush in Northern Ireland, was already among the leading […]

By Nick Harris 3 October 2010 Liverpool have suffered a shocking 2-1 home defeat to Blackpool this afternoon following the latest set of protests against the American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. The two sides were meeting for the first time January 1971, and this was Blackpool’s first win at Anfield since a 3-1 […]

By Brian Sears 1 October 2010 Nine London clubs have played in the Premier League. Three of them have been ever-present: Arsenal, Chelsea and Tottenham. Two of them are vying for the right to be all-time Premier League kings of London and they meet this weekend when Chelsea host Arsenal. Before that match kicks off, […]

By Nick Harris 29 September 2010 Middlesbrough’s latest financial accounts have just been filed at Companies House and highlight the pressure on manager Gordon Strachan to get the club promoted this season. On page 2 of the accounts, for the year ending 31 December 2009, in the directors’ report under the heading ‘Future outlook’, it […]

By Alex Miller 29 September 2010 The Football Association has told sportingintelligence that talks with interested parties to become the next chief sponsor of the England team – succeeding Nationwide – are “progressing well”. And despite a slew of lurid recent headlines surrounding the private lives of a number of England players, including strikers Wayne […]

By Brian Sears 28 September 2010 Premier League attendance levels have risen year-on-year, and if the trend at this fledging stage of the season remains constant through the campaign, crowds will hit record levels in 2010-11, according to analysis and projections by sportingintelligence. Our statistical reasoning is summarised in the table below, more of which […]

By Brian Sears 24 September 2010 Four teams remain unbeaten in the Premier League after five rounds of matches and three of them are the “usual suspects” in that Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United have done it the most often of all the Premier League clubs.  But Fulham have now achieved the feat for the […]