By Brian Sears 14 September 2011 Whether Manchester City can make an impression in their first European Cup campaign since 1968 remains to be seen, as their city rivals United aim for a fourth Champions League final in five seasons. But in no doubt are the storming starts both clubs have made in the Premier […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 13 September 2011 Arsenal were the only team in Europe’s ‘big five’ divisions last season who were rated best in their division by statistical analysis but failed to win their domestic title, according to research just published by the CIES Football Observatory. Barcelona were rated by […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 August 2011 Any Leeds United fans still upset at their club’s owner, Ken Bates, for calling protestors ‘morons’ last week, won’t be cheered by new research that shows their club has the highest ticket prices in the Championship. As the table below shows, the cheapest regular adult season ticket at Elland Road […]

By Sportingintelligence 24 August 2011 The sale of Samir Nasri by Arsenal to Manchester City today, hot on the sale of Cesc Fabregas, means Arsenal have now not spend a penny, net, on transfers in the past decade. In fact, as our table below shows, as things stand on the evening of Wednesday 24 August, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 21 August 2011  Arsenal would have been runners-up in the Premier League last season and Blackpool wouldn’t have been relegated if match officials hadn’t made mistakes. (See table at bottom). These are the headline findings from extensive new research that re-examined 713 ‘significant’ incidents – […]

18 August 2011 By Sportingintelligence Uefa’s detailed figures showing the precise amounts of money earned by the 32 clubs involved in the Champions League in 2010-11 are in the table below, and Uefa’s article on these numbers is linked here. Payments are essentially split in performance money (dependent on results and progress) and TV cash […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 12 August 2011 Arsenal fans frustrated by lack of activity in the transfer market know their club have not been big spenders in recent times but might be shocked to realised their net transfer spend over the past decade places them only ninth among the […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris 9 August 2011 Arsenal are famously the only club in England who have enjoyed an unbroken stretch in England’s top football division since the Second World War. Indeed the Gunners have been in the top flight non-stop since 1919. The new season will be Arsenal’s 66th consecutive top-division season […]

By Sportingintelligence 21 July 2011 Wayne Rooney’s name was requested on more replica football shirts around the world in the 2010-11 season than that of any other player in the Premier League, according to official data just released. The 25-year-old Manchester United striker hit the No1 spot for the first time in his career by […]

By Sportingintelligence 17 June 2011 Premier League champions Manchester United will begin the 2011-12 league season against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on 13 August. The fixtures were released at 9am on Friday. Chelsea, runners-up in 2010-11, start at Stoke, while Arsenal begin next season on the road too, at Newcastle. Manchester City will […]