By Nick Harris 9 June 2010 Liverpool have hiked prices of season tickets by seven per cent, meaning the lowest cost of a standard adult season ticket at Anfield for the 2010-11 season is £680, and it is only that low if booked via the internet. An adult ticket in the main stand is £732 […]

By Nick Harris 8 June 2010 England will reach the World Cup final and beat Spain to lift the trophy, according to predictions based on the ages of the 32 squads and five other key “indicators” identified as being influential at previous events. The predictions have been made by the Professional Football Players’ Observatory (PFPO) […]

By Nick Harris 8 June 2010 Along with the many 2010 World Cup articles about the first match in Group C – between England and the USA on Saturday – there have been, and will be, plenty of references to the famous, fabulous occasion when the USA beat England 1-0 at the 1950 World Cup. No […]

By Pete Wilson 7 June 2010 Whether David James actually gets to play a game at the World Cup remains to be seen – he was unused in today’s 3-0 friendly win over the Platinum Stars – but England’s goalkeeper is the oldest player involved in any squad at the tournament. Sportingintelligence‘s resident statistician Brian […]

By Nick Harris 7 June 2010 The Glazer family, owners of Manchester United, have net assets of slightly more than £1.1bn according to calculations based on figures cited today by anti-Glazer campaigners who have unearthed details of the family’s property-related debts in America. The Glazers now own only three major businesses: Manchester United in the […]

By Nick Harris 7 June 2010 The World Cup, which starts on Friday and will have a huge economic impact in countries far outside the host nation South Africa, will be the biggest event in British sports betting history, bookmakers said yesterday. “The World Cup will smash all gambling records, becoming the first sporting event […]

By Nick Harris 4 June 2010 As Liverpool’s search for a new manager begins in earnest, and umpteen re-evaluations of Rafa Benitez’s time at Anfield are underway, sportingintelligence’s resident statistician Brian Sears has crunched a few numbers to illustrate why, statistically, the Spaniard was Liverpool’s best manager of the Premier League era. The table below […]

By Nick Harris and Brian Sears 3 June 2010 English football clubs will again be sending more players to the World Cup than clubs from any other country, cementing English football’s reputation as the No1 melting pot for the cream of global football. A new study by sportingintelligence has found that 118 players who earn […]

By Nick Harris 2 June 2010 HM Revenue & Customs has started legal proceedings against the Premier League in the wake of the financial collapse of Portsmouth to try to have the so-called ‘“football creditors’ rule” (FCR) abolished. Under the rule, if a club enters administration, “football creditors” including other clubs, players and managers owed […]

By Nick Harris 2 June 2010 The Red Knights group of super-rich Manchester United fans who want to take control of the club from the Glazer family have released a statement this morning confirming their ongoing interest, as sportingintelligence reported first yesterday that they would do. In a less than spectacular endorsement of the early […]