BOOK REVIEW By Alex Miller 25 August 2011 The great Bill Shankly played his one and only game for Liverpool during World War II, a Merseyside derby in May 1942, when he appeared as a guest player in a performance that left Everton totally outclassed. Shanks also turned down the Liverpool manager’s job in 1951 […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 August 2011 The combined shirt sponsorship income of the Premier League’s 20 clubs for the 2011-12 season has jumped almost 20 per cent from £100.45m to £117.5m, sportingintelligence can reveal. (See table at bottom for full details). The £117.5m does not […]

By Alex Miller 21 June 2011 The Football Association’s concerns over gambling-related corruption has prompted the governing body to hire external expert advisers to deal with the threat. Sportingintelligence can reveal the FA has already started a tender process that will end with a contract for an independent private-sector firm to run an education programme for […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 7 April 2011 Keith Harris, the chairman of the investment bank Seymour Pierce and the man who brokered billionaire takeovers at Premier League clubs Chelsea, Aston Villa, Manchester City and elsewhere, has revealed today that he has advised Liverpool and Everton to groundshare. Harris, speaking at the SportAccord conference […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 6 April 2011 Britain’s sports minister Hugh Robertson has urged the Welsh FA not to let politics deprive Gareth Bale of his ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ to represent Great Britain at next year’s Olympics. Earlier this year, the Football Association of Wales spelt out that they will oppose […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 6 April 2011 Sir Clive Woodward has today implied that Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson is failing to manage Wayne Rooney’s temperament adequately, following the troubled striker’s recent foul-mouthed goal celebration. Rooney shouted an expletive into a live Sky television camera after scoring a hat-trick against West Ham on […]

By Alex Miller 20 March 2011 The former Liverpool and Sweden defender Glenn Hysen has revealed his pride at the decision by his 20 year-old son, Anton, to become the first professional Swedish footballer to come out as gay – and how he hopes it might contribute to gay Premier League players feeling comfortable enough […]

* By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 March 2011 . Sportingintelligence is celebrating its first birthday. Although you’ll find articles on the site that pre-date March 2010 by a month or three, it was a year ago precisely that the site went fully live for the first time. The ‘holding page’ […]

The ‘brand’ is increasingly bandied around in the world of football. Sportingintelligence explains what is meant by a brand and how you calculate its value. Alex Miller reports. . By Alex Miller 26 November 2010 Ask anyone with even the most basic knowledge of football to name the clubs with the biggest and most valuable […]

By Alex Miller 3 November 2010 The man in charge of Fernando Torres’ fitness has warned the rest of the Premier League that the Spanish striker is ‘close’ to firing on all cylinders again but the player really should have had a rest of at least three months after his knee surgery in April. Liverpool’s […]