By Brian Sears 28 September 2012 For a club with aspirations to become regular top-four finishers in the Premier League, Tottenham have an absolutely woeful record in the Premier League when playing away against the clubs long known as the ‘Big Four’. In the 20 completed seasons of the Premier League they have played a […]

By Brian Sears 14 September 2012 The 20 clubs in the Premier League have won 14,570 points between them in their stints in the Premier League in the past 20 years. Of those, 8,809 points have been won at home, or 60.5 per cent – but some clubs are much more reliant than others on […]

By Brian Sears 16 August 2012 Liverpool and Southampton have the toughest starts in the 2012-13 Premier League season, with Swansea and West Ham having the easiest set of opening fixtures, according to a Sportingintelligence analysis of each clubs’ opening six matches. Within an objective ‘tough rating’ system, the lower the rating, the harder the […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 July 2012 David Beckham’s omission from the British football team for London 2012 polarised opinion but the former England captain is sure to take centre stage in some capacity at some point during London 2012. If Beckham had been in Team GB, perhaps a whole swathe of seats at the Millennium Stadium […]

By Brian Sears 26 April 2012 Everton meeting Fulham in the Premier League is a statistician’s delight.  It happens for the 22nd time this Saturday and although it’s a mid-table battle (Fulham trail Everton by just two points) and of little consequence at the top or bottom of the league, it has intriguing statistical interest. Ten […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 2 April 2012 Today marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War. As Sportingintelligence contributor Matthew Barrett, a specialist on the subject of sport and war, details on his own blog today, tensions between Britain and Argentina continue to simmer, with sporting repercussions. […]

* By Helen Harris 28 March 2012   Ed Weston was an ‘endurance athlete’ and a ‘sporting superstar’ many decades before either of those phrases was coined. If he’d been alive today, his athletic achievements would be covered in the sports pages of the broadsheets and his private life would be on the front pages […]

By Sportingintelligence 15 March 2012 Chelsea’s dramatic victory over Napoli in the Champions League on Wednesday night means England remain the only nation never to be without a quarter-finalist in the competition since it became for clubs other than champions, in 1997-98. With both Manchester clubs eliminated in the group stage and both Arsenal and […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 February 2012 When Tottenham play Arsenal on Sunday, they’ll kick off with a 10-point advantage over their North London rivals in the Premier League, and with realistic hopes of finishing this season as London’s highest placed club. The last time they […]

By Brian Sears 17 February 2012  A blank Premier League weekend leaves a statistician with no top-flight matches to get statistically steamed up about. No goals will be scored, and none conceded as England’s top level takes a break for the FA Cup. Don’t get me wrong, I know all too well that football exists outside of […]