Sitemap - 2011 - Sporting Intelligence

1985: Leicester's Lineker was England's top scorer. Everton won the title. And the difference in pay from the First Division to Fourth Division was merely 3 to 1

REVEALED: Official English football wage figures for the past 25 years

English football wages since 1984-85

EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United attract half of Premier League's global TV audience

A football competition and a headline about a global audience of billions. And yet it's actually true. What on earth is going on?

Nick Bollettieri pledges to help tackle grunting issue in tennis

Premier League – the global game. How English football is seen in … Australia

Chelsea close to usurping Arsenal as London kings in Premier League era

Premier League - the global game. An A-Z of how the world watches English football

Premier League – the global game. How English football is seen in … Montenegro

Premier League – the global game. How English football is seen in … Israel

QPR end Chelsea's decade of dominance. Now it's over to City, United and Rovers ...

Premier League – the global game. How English football is seen in … Serbia

FA to investigate allegation of racist abuse by Chelsea’s England captain Terry

West Ham fans call on club to hold independent poll on stadium move

Premier League - the global game. How English football is seen in ... the Czech Republic

Balotelli, Silva, Aguero, Dzeko - the latest in a long, illustrious line of foreign stars at cosmopolitan Manchester City

Mourinho trophy sells for £26,000 in Sir Bobby Robson auction

Barcelona's Guardiola, Madrid's Mourinho and Ipswich's Burley in race for Sir Bobby

Villa and the Baggies: not a lot to separate the best and worst of the Midlands

If the Premier League were a closed shop of 20 clubs, which would they be?

Manchester United relish Liverpool at Anfield as England’s only true giants meet

Just a thought: Is Fabio Capello the best manager England have ever had?

Global appeal of England’s lions keeps kit deal high despite lack of success

Live now! Your chance to bid for unique prizes involving Messi, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, England and much more

Collina voices fixing fear as Rooney Snr arrested in red card fraud probe

Gazidis claims Arsenal can afford to miss out on Champions League next season

Barcelona and Guardiola now join forces behind Real Madrid's Mourinho for Sir Bobby

Joorabchian claims in face of evidence that Tevez was mistranslated

Uefa admits Wembley CL prices ‘slip’ - and pledges cheaper seats for 2013

The tune that could yet save the Premier League a shedload of TV rights income

The Sports Lawyer: 'Certain parts of the Murphy case ruling are hard to marry up'

Murphy's law: why the Sky isn't about to fall in on the Premier League

ANALYSIS: Man Utd have made best 'weighted' start to season, Wigan worst

Blackburn owners to be told staff and players 'losing confidence in Kean'

The Sports Lawyer: 'Should City leave Tevez in the reserves indefinitely, he could have recourse to Fifa rules'

Tottenham's Redknapp and England's Swann the latest to donate to Sir Bobby auction

Chelsea go to sorry Bolton looking to have a nine old time of it

Premier League - the global game. How English football is seen around the world

The Sports Lawyer: 'For obvious reasons, taxation of the rich will affect football'

View from Brazil: How ‘big money’ hurt Arsenal and killed Wenger’s beautiful game plan

India's Tendulkar and Co join England's world No1 cricketers to go into bat for Sir Bobby

Swansea's mountain: no defeat for Chelsea in 10 years against promoted teams

Manchester United's high five start doesn't point to the title - yet

Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho donates most prestigious trophy in honour of Sir Bobby

Park and thrive: How Ji-Sung helps Manchester United reign supreme in Asia

Chelsea by far the best side at getting results against Manchester United

The Sports Lawyer: 'Sion's chances of a successful appeal against Celtic decision are slim. Uefa's rules on eligibility are clear - and were broken'

United and City rewriting hat-trick map as Manchester chases Arsenal record

Arsenal unique in being technically 'best' but not winning title last season

EXCLUSIVE: Former Birmingham striker Garry O'Connor had cocaine test kept secret 'to aid recovery'

Spain the dominant force in providing Champions League players

Boffins tip Chelsea’s experience to give them edge over Manchester duo in title race

The Sports Lawyer: 'Serie A has had enough headaches with crowd trouble and fixing. The last thing it needed was a strike'

Broke and blue, Everton seek hoodoo's end against richer Aston Villa

Swansea, Swansea, give us a goal... (but don't panic, you'll probably be safe)

Leicester's Eriksson and Manchester United's Ferguson offer prizes and praise in honour of Sir Bobby Robson

Bolton's chances at Liverpool ancient history, West Brom goals a cert

The Sports Lawyer: 'Spurs have pressed hard for a judicial review, but realistically their claim is unlikely to succeed'

'The new history of Liverpool is a rare book indeed - one that truly raises the bar'.

Top of the league: Leeds and Arsenal ticket prices

Sale of Nasri makes Arsenal a net selling club over a decade

EXCLUSIVE: Premier League shirt deals surge to £117.5m on back of City's Etihad uplift

Why Manchester City’s alleged Financial Fair Play ‘dodge’ is not actually dodgy at all - and might even be an undervaluation of their worth

Love, communism, jumping and drugs: the extraordinary journey of an aspirant British Olympian

REVEALED: The table that shows Arsenal and Blackpool were cheated last season

Kings of the double Chelsea seek 11th heaven against West Brom

How Manchester United beat Barcelona in the 2010-11 Champions League, how Tottenham beat Arsenal - and how Chelsea beat them all on TV

Freakishly good away days mean home blues early in 2011-12

The Sports Lawyer: 'The riots have highlighted the need for sport to have adequate insurance'

Arsenal's net spending of £48m in a decade puts them 9th in Premier League

First-day win for new boys QPR, Norwich and Swansea would point to top-flight survival

Premier League and Football League to decide on Thursday whether London games go ahead this weekend

Graeme Swann: ‘England ousting India from top of rankings planned by stats geek’

2011-12 Premier League countdown: how the 20 teams have performed every season since WWII

Arsenal's top-flight permanence pipped by Manchester United's consistency

As Chelsea's Villas-Boas pays tribute to his mentor Sir Bobby Robson, the world of sport offers unique prizes for charity auction

The Sports Lawyer: 'With the money in football, a club could argue that one bad decision is worth millions. Could that be worth legal action?'

Charlton, Sheffield, Preston, Huddersfield: history urges you to rise about your current station. That goes for Swindon and Bristol Rovers too. As for Crawley ...

West Ham and Leeds rank high on top-flight pedigree, Leicester and Forest chasing

Barnet and 'tache - the answers in glorious colour

Barnet and 'tache: can you spot the footballer of yesteryear?

Blackburn offer cheapest day at Premier League match, Liverpool most expensive

Government and ICC laud Dhoni call at Trent Bridge but India’s twitterati split

AFC Wimbledon: born in the wake of a theft, rising the right way - and now, as a Football League club, looking to move back ‘home’

Sven reveals Mourinho’s England passion - and is open to Three Lions job himself

The Sports Lawyer: 'When TV is the paymaster, scheduling can be a legal minefield'

United’s rematch with Barca already a smash hit as football thrills USA

Rooney overtakes Torres and Gerrard in shirt sales as United put Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal in the shade

Ahsan Ali Syed's Spanish adventure starts to unravel

It's official: The referee's a homer, and 'Fergie-time' is a reality

English FA to hire anti-corruption experts to cope with match-fix threat

How Aston Villa, Chelsea and Man City have the easy Premier League starts for 2011-12

Fixture list: Man Utd to start at West Brom, Arsenal at Newcastle, Swansea at City

Premier League clubs clear tax arrears as football governance report looms

World Snooker asks all employees to interview for own jobs

Who knifed The Boyler? A football mafia mystery

Manchester United set to pay £20.5m for Jones after late £22m offer from Liverpool

Shergar: kidnapped by the IRA, killed, buried in a bog in north County Leitrim

Charge sheet: Fifa’s murky dealings in the Blatter era

Unlucky: Blackpool were the best 'one-season wonders' for 13 years

Spot the ball park: 27

Fulham win Europa League slot through Premier League Fair Play ranking

Where the money went: Premier League prize and TV payments for 2010-11

Mind the gap: how leaving the Premier League can seriously damage your wealth

Front page of Sunday Herald, 22 May 2011

Blackpool's £477k per point gave value if not glory (Liverpool spent £2m a point)

Manchester United stretch lead at top of all-time Premier League table

Survival Sunday's 32 goals make for record Premier League tally

Last day form points to Manchester United win, Blackpool pain, and Wigan-Brum toss-up for third relegation slot

France will host 2018 Ryder Cup after all-star support

Fulham favourites for Europa League slot, Blackpool out because of Holloway's chat

Rio Ferdinand: ‘You've got to go out there cold. Emotion in a big match is detrimental’

Resurgent Liverpool look forward to hosting generous visitors Tottenham

Rio Ferdinand, English football's Twitter king, closes in on 1m followers

25 years of the play-offs (and the most successful play-off team are already in the Premier League)

The Sports Lawyer: 'It is possible the QPR ruling - with its inconsistency - won't be the end of the matter'

REVEALED: Royal Wedding TV audience closer to 300m than 2bn (because sport, not royalty, reigns)

Hammers hope and Wigan wish: history points to decent days for w-w-w-worried clubs

Manchester United home form key to title, and Chelsea best at Old Trafford

Liverpool MD leaves open possibility of backing for '39th game'

No American players ranked in the top 10 for the first time in tennis history

Lebron James’ value to Liverpool? Up to $1m per minute in US TV advert spend

The Sports Lawyer: 'If QPR are deducted points, it is possible they could be deducted next season'

EXPOSED: The contaminated supplements, including diet pills, implicated in multiple drug-test bans

Link to press release relating to supplements

Man Utd lead the derby league ahead of Chelsea and Newcastle

Wayne Rooney confirms Scotland Yard identify him as phone-hack victim

'Sincere good wishes to Wills and Kate, but a 2bn TV audience? Garbage. Only the Olympics and the World Cup are truly global events, and half as big as that at best'

Rooney overtakes Owen on Twitter inside three days as Ferdinand extends dominant position over Gooner Morgan

JOHN ROBERTS: 'The pilot for United's fateful flight from Munich was unfairly blamed. One twilight in 1974, he told me his story'

Sir Alex Ferguson: On wages, the title, the need for a winter break, and away form

United's Ferdinand extends lead over Twitter rival Morgan as Rooney enters fray

Spot the ball park: 26

Slam dunk: NBA the richest sports league in the world by average pay

Money talks: the global reaction to the riches of Barca, Real, the Yankees et al

REVEALED: Barcelona and Real Madrid overtake Yankees as world’s best paid teams

Available from Good Friday . . .

EXCLUSIVE: Snooker's biggest management firm about to go bust, owing players

ANALYSIS: Select Committee gives 5 per cent attention to football fans’ concerns

West Brom seek hat-trick of bogey-busts to prevent Chelsea's perfect 10

The Sports Lawyer: 'FA take note - RFU approach to Cueto kept discipline in-house'

Rovers' returns at Everton: historic hope in relegation scrap

Spot the ball park: 25

Rivaldo EXCLUSIVE: ‘We Brazilians have an export mentality, but now I’m €16m out of pocket’

Five reasons why Kroenke's Rapids suggest Kroenke's Arsenal have nothing to fear

Kroenke takes majority control at Arsenal but 'business as usual' at Emirates

The Sports Lawyer: ‘Ireland’s exclusion from cricket's world party by the ICC is certainly damaging and probably actionable’

Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and City maintain goal rush towards record

Football financier Keith Harris ‘has advised Liverpool and Everton to groundshare’

Spot the ball park: 24

Sports minister urges Welsh FA not to deny Tottenham’s Gareth Bale his Olympic dream

Sir Clive Woodward questions Ferguson’s handling of Rooney, slams ‘light’ discipline in football

Why Manchester City's run-in provides historically 'easy pickings' at home

West Brom and Stoke in duck-bust quests against Liverpool and Chelsea

DAVE BOYLE: ‘In England we’ve believed club owners wouldn’t be reckless with money. As Blackadder might have said, there’s a flaw to that cunning plan. It’s bollocks.’

For the drop? History says West Brom, Wigan and Birmingham

Stats history says United for the title, with Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool next

Neymar, Lucas and the Samba young guns: keeping us nuts about Brazil (and the numbers that prove Europe’s infatuation)

Keeping up appearances: why Aston Villa's Friedel is the man for all seasons

Djokovic downs Nadal in Indian Wells to continue 2011 season without loss

Liverpool old boy Hysen voices pride in son - the first openly gay player since Fashanu

Manchester City only 60 per cent dangerous without Carlos Tevez

The £1.4bn match: Why soccernomics says Chelsea and Manchester City should be in two-horse race for title

Everton seek perfect 10 against Fulham

Henry the king of all-time Premier League foreign star XI

REVEALED: English football’s tax debt was £22m ‘at low ebb’ in 2010

In 2003, an illustrious panel of football men, including Sir Bobby Robson, picked Patrick Vieira as England's greatest foreign player up to then. Here's how...

Patrick Vieira exclusive: on Man City, United, Arsenal, England, The Ryder Cup, his favourite players, and the future

Patrick Vieira endorses French 2018 Ryder Cup bid as ‘legacy option’ for golf

Scotland footballers seek legal advice on ground-breaking move over 2012 Olympics

Battling Baltacha getting closer to the big guns

Murray calls for a venue that will breathe new life into Davis Cup in Britain

Arsenal and Manchester United alone have Cup pedigree in Prem League era

Sportingintelligence: One year young this week. Honoured to be honoured. Thank you.

Premier League keep eye on Birmingham's finances as European fate linked to survival

British diving horror: ‘We didn’t know if she was breathing. We couldn’t find a pulse’. (Includes link to video of life-saving rescue)

Karlovic shatters fastest serve record on Davis Cup duty

Manchester United the only Premier League team in credit at Anfield (bar Barnsley and Blackpool)

United, Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Newcastle and Blackpool lead the shooting boot stats as Premier League record remains possible

Kolo Toure's positive drug test arrives in wake of short ban for Hamilton player

Stoke's survival rests on domineering records over the likes of the Baggies

Head of Wada calls for global anti-corruption body

Wigan's woeful wins wait: nearly two years since consecutive victories

‘In this age of media and Messi, it's barely believable. But Argentina, world champions at the time, trained in Hyde Park, amongst a totally nonplussed English general public, sitting in deck-chairs’

Minnows eye FA Cup quarter-finals as Arsenal & Co seek all-elite domination

Betting (and/or integrity) cases in sport to watch for in 2011

Manchester United become world's most popular team on Facebook, with more than 20 times the fans of City

Manchester United on top because they dominate the best and the rest

DAVE BOYLE: 'If the 3pm blackout on Saturday ended, doubtless many lower league club chairmen would panic. But they could be cannier and see it as an opportunity'

The Sports Lawyer: 'It is not illegal for a publican to subscribe to a foreign broadcaster. The issue in the Portsmouth case is whether it's legal to screen it in public'

Fields of (amateur) dreams: the 22 US college football teams with crowds bigger than the NFL average

ANALYSIS: Super Bowl's record TV audience follows optimistic NFL attendances

Manchester United on brink of overtaking Barcelona as world's most popular club

Arsenal, Newcastle, Everton and Blackpool: eight-goal thrillers by the dozen

Pakistan cricket trio face ‘spot-fix’ criminal charges, but validity of gambling charge unclear

W...W...W... winning is good but West Ham, Wigan and Wolves want a point per game

Chelsea relishing Liverpool visit for Torres's debut - and more

'Chelsea’s decision to buy Torres was not economically sound: they will not recoup their investment'

Example of how club wages might be written off to avoid failing Uefa FFP rules

REVEALED: Why Chelsea don't fear Uefa FFP (wages don't count for first two years)

Arsenal dominant at home to Everton (and everyone else, bar ONE bogey team)

Chelsea: a history of rib-tickling excuses and risible claims over consistently losing oodles of Abramovich's money

£223.47m bonanza: Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcastle at heart of record January sales

Notts nuts about Cup. Arsenal averagely interested. Villa, Wolves, Swansea turned off

The Sports Lawyer: ‘As part of any legal claim, Andy Gray will inevitably seek to argue laddish behaviour was accepted, endorsed, part of the culture at Sky’

Bookies facing big payouts as Murray reaches third Slam final

Manchester United and Arsenal top list of Goliaths facing Cup Davids

Davids seeks 108th Cup Goliath of Premier League era

The Sports Lawyer: 'Twitter is a good thing ... but beware comments made in haste'

Cost of raising next wannabe Nadal estimated to be $400,000

MELTING POT: 27 players, 22 nationalities - the most cosmopolitan game in Premier League history

Manchester United: how history shows they get stronger from now on

Blackburn-India special: views of a family-sponsored temple

Liverpool's double trouble: why Wolves want to be No22 since '92

Why Everton should relish the visit of Grant's generous West Ham

Blackburn-India special: Get a chicken burger, frozen nuggets and creatine at the same one-stop shop, Venky's XPRS

Blackburn-India special: Dr BV Rao, vet, visionary and founder of Venky's

Blackburn-India special: Words of chicken wisdom on a factory wall

BLACKBURN-INDIA Special: Boomtown Pune

From £20 to £33,868 per week: a quick history of English football's top-flight wages

BLACKBURN-INDIA Special: The VH Group in detail

BLACKBURN-INDIA Special: The family behind the Rovers buyout

BLACKBURN-INDIA Special: Pictures of Pune, home of Rovers' new owners

Tottenham test shadowed by woeful record against Manchester United

As Blatter expects winter World Cup in 2022, Qatar website goes down

A statto's dream: Hornets' handful of wins have Herts hearts aleaping

Debut at Arsenal v Man City: The Premier League’s first £100 ‘ordinary’ match ticket

Ravenous Wolves seek first Premier League point against stuttering Chelsea

ALEX WILLIS: 'The approaching Australian Open means that every competitive rally played is vital preparation, and at the Hopman Cup, players are guaranteed a minimum of six matches. You don’t get that anywhere else'

The curious case of Wayne Odesnik, a tennis betting mystery, a drugs ban and a whistleblower’s deal

America's Odesnik could add bets info to drugs help for reduced ban

Freddie Ljungberg's Celtic wage shows decline of Scottish football finances

IN DETAIL: West Ham threaten judicial review call over Tottenham stadium decision