By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 25 March 2012 When Darlington went into administration in 2009 – the second of three times the club has now done so – they owed HMRC tax arrears of more than four hundred thousand pounds. As part of the deal that led […]

By Alex Miller 13 January 2012 Leading football clubs are being heavily targeted by HMRC over perks afforded to players and WAGs  – partially because the taxman has already received information and tip-offs relating to major financial discrepancies at at least one top Premier League club, Sportingintelligence can reveal. The finance directors at all Premier […]

By Alex Miller 10 December 2011 Elite football is not totally immune from the recession after all: the six national teams in Europe with the most lucrative headline sponsorships will go to Euro 2012 with combined deals worth less money than they had at the 2010 World Cup. While top club wages, bonuses, endorsement deals […]

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 Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 October 2011 The amount of money paid to English professional footballers each season since 1984-85 is revealed in detail for the first time today. Sportingintelligence has obtained an official PFA document showing the average basic weekly wages, division by division, for […]

By Alex Miller 9 October 2011 England’s football team haven’t won a major trophy since the 1966 World Cup on home soil, haven’t reached a major tournament semi-final since 1996 (on home soil) and haven’t ever got beyond a semi-final on foreign turf – and that was 21 years ago at the 1990 World Cup […]

By Alex Miller at Leaders in Football, London 6 October 2011 Former top referee Pierluigi Collina has warned that the issue of match fixing was “the future of football” and that everybody associated with the sport had to act to look after the game. On the day that Wayne Rooney’s father and uncle were arrested […]

By Alex Miller at Leaders in Football, London 6 October 2011 Arsenal’s chief executive Ivan Gazidis has claimed the club’s current lowly league position is not a concern and added the Gunners “could afford to miss out on Champions League” next season and continue to compete for the league title. The club has qualified for […]

By Alex Miller at Leaders in Football, London 5 October 2011 Kia Joorabchian, the man who formerly ‘owned’ Carlos Tevez and continues to act as his representative, has blamed an interpreter for incorrectly translating the Manchester City striker’s comments after the infamous ‘strike’ incident in Munich last week. Tevez was initially reported to have said: […]

By Alex Miller at Leaders in Football, London 5 October 2011 Uefa’s general secretary Gianni Infantino has admitted ticket prices for last season’s Champions League final at Wembley “slipped through Uefa’s net” and promised that prices “won’t be so high in 2013”. Prices for the 2011 final between Barcelona and Manchester United, not including administration […]