Dosh, doping, transfers, a hoaxer, Wenger, whistle-blowers and more: the most-read stories of 2013
By Sportingintelligence
24 December 2013
As the holiday season gets underway and the countdown to 2014 begins, here are the most-read articles on Sportingintelligence in 2013.
Thanks for reading.
1: REVEALED: Manchester City rise to top of global pay charts, Dodgers soar to challenge (11 June) (Download PDF resources read offline, via here)
2: From Man Utd at £1bn to Wigan at £43m: what’s your club REALLY worth? (25 March)
3: REVEALED: Qatar hoaxer – a cautionary tale of delusion, fantasy and lucre (DFL) (25 March) (Download PDF to read offline, via here)
4: From £200m Messi to £20m Lukaku: Europe’s 60 most valuable players this summer (17 June) (Download related spreadsheet, via here)
5: Where the money went: Premier League prize and TV payments for 2012-13 (21 May)
6: Since Arsenal last won silverware: 23 ex-Gunners win 56 major trophies … and counting (13 May)
7: Manchester United win 20th English title to close gap on Liverpool trophy record (22 April)
8: Arsene Wenger – what is he good for? (24 October) (Download PDF to read offline, via here)
9: Nationality maps for football leagues 2013-14 (12 August)
10: Premier League shirt sponsors pour record £166m into top-flight bank accounts (20 August)
11: EXCLUSIVE: The 37 English professional football clubs offering zero pay for real jobs (24 May)
12: Number-crunched: Premier League summer transfers by club, country, age and position (9 September) (Download PDF resources read offline, via here)
13: NFL remains by far the best attended domestic sports league in the world (4 January)
14: Tell me why … the English football authorities keep buck-passing the Blackburn farce (30 April)
15: Fixing, doping, whistle-blowing: secrets that tennis prefers not to discuss (24 June)
16: REVEALED: the scale of Bradford’s cup triumph in global football context (23 January)
17: Manchester United kings of social media as well as the Premier League (16 April)
18: Fans march on Premier League HQ over ticket prices as 2013-14 fixtures released (19 June)
19: Tell me why … the real scandal of Di Canio’s appointment has been obscured by talk of Mussolini and fascism (8 April)
20: Tell me why … society demands black and white when real life is 50 shades of grey (18 March)
21: REVEALED: Asia driving boom as Premier League foreign TV cash hits £2.23bn (9 September)
22: Takeovers, triumphs and Hansen’s first column: why the end of a Liverpool institution is a dark day for journalism (22 December)
23: NEW RESEARCH: Foreign players at record levels across European football (21 January)
24: Pedigree, cash, managers, analytics: and why 2013-14 predictions are a 58m-1 shot (15 August)
25: As Mayweather prepares for Canelo: the lessons and perils of boxing’s lethal secret (24 June)
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