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Money, FCB, LFC, BRFC, RFC, tax, tennis & more: The most read pieces in 2012

LIVE blog: the best and worst owners in English football

REVEALED: the best and worst owners in English football

Tell me why … I won't get any substantive answers to these 13 questions for 2013

Newcastle draw solace from 40-year wait for a win at Old Trafford

Scrooge-like Stoke: fewer goals per game than any club in Premier League history

Tell me why … there are no rules about managers discussing officials after the match

Tell me why … we think SPOTY proves Britain to be a sophisticated sporting nation?

'Half the UN's members recognise Kosovo but its footballers remain in limbo'

Sportingintelligence: international digest

Arsenal and Man City want title hope revival against 'soft touch' opponents

Chelsea's domestic decline leaves Premier League rivals purring

REVEALED: Barcelona No1 for producing players for clubs in Europe's elite leagues

Murray's unique claim to be SPOTY: Solo, historic magnificence in a golden age

'QPR's relegation battle is the latest predictable case of the economics of failure'

Tell me why ... we want to bury to Stuart Hall before his right to a fair trial?

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Chelsea hope to avoid second stats lightning strike in a week against Sunderland

Top four? Recent past says only United, City, Chelsea, Spurs or WBA will do it

Tell me why ... nobody seems to care whether what they read is true?

Why West Brom face a test of Champions League credentials ... against Stoke

Tell me why ... Manchester United needed to erect a statue to Sir Alex Ferguson now?

West Brom relishing heady days as they travel to 'soft touch' Sunderland

EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool confirm departure of communications director Jen Chang

Manchester United streets ahead in Premier League 'boucebackability'

Manchester City eye landmark home record against 'generous' Villa

No series win in India for 27 years, and one Test win in 11, but don't write England off

What's wrong with English football? Nominate the worst owners. And the best.

Fulham eye unprecedented high, Arsenal fear new low

Premier League managers: oldest, youngest, most diverse in Europe's 'Big 5' leagues

'Easy pickings' Newcastle to act as barometer of Liverpool under Rodgers

Top-flight football crowds in England on course for 40-year high

EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool give blogger written apology for ‘inappropriate’ director behaviour

Oh Sandy: how the hurricane is impacting American sport

BT sign deals for Serie A, Ligue 1, Brazil and MLS, raising doubts over ESPN future

Saints dream of bygone glories as generous Tottenham visit

Arsenal bracing for back-to-back bogey teams, starting with QPR

Man love, Keane, Collymore, Wilko, Liverpool, Leeds & cardinal sins: life's a pitch

Tyler Hamilton: 'Pat McQuaid has no place in cycling'

Newcastle visit Sunderland as Premier League kings of the north-east

In full: USADA statement on the imminent release of Lance Armstrong doping evidence

Real Madrid and Barca earn most from kit deals, United and Liverpool closing in

EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United and Real Madrid top global shirt sale charts

Manchester City eye United's historic levels of unbeaten supremacy at home

United, Fulham, Everton and City on top as goals flow at record pace

Fans celebrate as Steve Kean 'forced to resign' as Blackburn manager

Kean won stay of execution at Blackburn 'after wife's 11th-hour call to owner'

Tottenham's woeful record at 'Big Four' in focus as latest Man Utd challenge looms

'To look into Amy Williams' Arctic-blue eyes was to ridicule the notion that winter sports athletes are less deserving of the title 'Olympian' than their summer counterparts'

B-B-B-B-blimey! No 'Bs' in the Premier League for the first time

Liverpool versus Manchester United: still the biggest English match in the world

Keeping it clean: Arsenal eye best defensive start to a season

Manchester City reveal details of world-class academy (and it’s not an FFP dodge)

Fulham, Stoke and Reading most reliant on results at home

Arsenal, Liverpool and Villa put faith in youth (voluntarily or not)

‘Being: Liverpool’ - an intriguing tale of transatlantic sporting disconnect

‘She makes £2 a day from begging. She embodies why the Paralympics matter’

What's in a footballer's name? (Not Nigel in England these days)

Laura Robson: an 18-year-old who loves cheesy music, teenage TV - and winning

West Ham welcome 'favourite' opponents Fulham (but prefer them away)

Saints cling to past glories as Manchester United come calling

Manchester United's autocratic Fergie on brink of 1,000th league game

'The only people who propose a sensible, long-term vision for Portsmouth football club are its supporters, local business and the local authority'

Experts in getting even: Villa and Everton draw most conclusions

Openly gay Olympians won six times as many golds as their peers. Why?

Premier League diversity at heart of global appeal

Who beats Arsenal at home in the Premier League? (Not Sunderland)

'Are you the new Bill James? MCFC will give you data worth thousands to find out'

Liverpool and Saints face hardest starts as Swans and Hammers ease in

England’s ‘pedigree’ teams for 2012-13: Arsenal, Leeds, Coventry and Plymouth

Team GB: 'Don't Stop Me Now'

London 2012: Better for Great Britain than 1908 despite fewer gold medals

'Tennis belongs at the Olympics ... Both singles finals at London 2012 got better US TV ratings than any Slam in a decade'

‘In 1999, I met a 16-year-old kid called Mo who said it would mean a great deal to run for Britain. Dreams do come true.’

London 2012: Beware billions bollocks. Ceremony to be huge TV hit, but not that huge

Champions League: where the money went 2011-12

Premier League shirt deals hit £147m record high thanks to north-east boom

David Beckham: loathe him or love him, he always gets a reaction

Olympic medals: the nations who make the most of their population and cash

Liverpool Fox documentary: trailer

Euro 2012 post mortem: was possession really nine-tenths of the score?

On this day: 'A disappointing final' that led to 76 years of hurt ... and counting

Golden balls-up: the folly of binning Beckham for the Olympics

Spanish squad has highest 'market value' at Euros: £579.7m

Euro 2012 quarter-finalists: spot-kick history and paying penalties

Premier League TV rights Q&A, including where the money goes and what next

This bubble ain’t bursting yet: all the details you’d ever want to know about the Premier League’s new TV deals

Blackburn fans given boost by MPs and FA - and ask Anderson for answers

Revealed: Facebook role in Blackburn transfers as fans prepare for government meeting

'Plagued by problems in football and society, is Euro 2012 Greece's beacon of hope?'

Manchester United: 659 million people can’t be wrong. Can they?

World's best paying sports teams: interactive

Brendan Rodgers inherits ... the most trophy-laden club in English football history

Euro 2012 squads by numbers: Melting pot England sends 21% of all players

EXCLUSIVE: Man City won 2011-12 injury league, Man Utd bottom

The inside story of how Di Matteo and Newton saved Chelsea’s season - but could be out of work by July

Wales, Bale, Giggs & Co: from historic outcasts to the heart of Team GB

REVEALED: The art of winning a major tournament penalty shootout

Where the money went: Premier League prize and TV payments for 2011-12

It's the economy, stupid! How money fuels glory in the Premier League

Venky's ponder options as Indian media turns spotlight on Blackburn

The Sportingintelligence Worldle wall: where the stories catch your eye

Premier League showdown weekend: eight statistical puzzlers

Kroenke heads list of global sports tycoons as USA switches on to THE global game

Blackburn co-owner claims Hunt sacked for cost-cutting reasons

REVEALED: New leaked Blackburn letter lays bare crisis and torment inside Ewood

Global Sports Salaries Survey 2012: some international perspective

The Sports Lawyer: 'In truth the BOA's drug ban appeal was never likely to succeed'

Graphically speaking: the world's best paid sports teams from Barca to the Crew

Liverpool among leading flops as Premier League home points hit all-time low

What on earth do marketing men see in the gorgeous synchro star Jenna Randall?

REVEALED: The world's best paid teams, Man City close in on Barca and Real Madrid

Manchester keeps Prem on track for goals record as hat-tricks hit high mark

In memory of Khalil Dale: my gentle, compassionate, tolerant friend. RIP.

Uefa to sell 65,000 new Munich stadium tickets for Bayern-Chelsea

Villa and Liverpool seek away relief, already certain of worst home records

The statistician's idea of perfection: Everton at home to Fulham

As Kaka hits 10m followers: the world's 20 most popular sportsmen on Twitter

Victoria Pendleton: looking good for Games gold even dressed entirely in cable

The sacking of football managers as an exact science: who got it right and wrong

Coming soon to Sportingintelligence: the world's best paid sports teams

RIO FERDINAND: United's desire for success, why the nationality of the England manager is irrelevant, the joy of Federer, and why Maradona still tops Messi

Manchester United trust in Old Trafford fortress as Everton seek second win in 20 years

Chelsea go to Arsenal in search of first capital victory of the league season

Wolves seek respite from doom at 'favourite' opponents Sunderland

Nail-biters Norwich host City as best team at taking results to the wire

Man City seek first league win at Arsenal since era of Hartford, Royle and Marsh

ANALYSIS: Yorkshire supreme in English cricket, but that's all history as season starts

City and United make Manchester top for goals as clubs renew record hunt

'Finney would no more have tripped an opponent, or pretended to have been tripped, than he would have left a tap without washers during his day job as a plumber'

REVEALED: The most dedicated football nations - The Faroes, Iceland, Cyprus, Scotland and England

Thirty years on from the Falklands: Sport, war and playing in the Cup for Tott-ing-ham

Dalglish's Liverpool in relegation form in 2012 as Newcastle and Sunderland fly high

Manchester City host Sunderland with aim of matching visitors' unique home record

'Ed Weston lived life a little differently from most of us, on a separate key and with the volume up'

Sportsmen of the Titanic: tales of loss, love and a 21st century bust-up over long-dead players’ image rights

REVEALED: the £39.6m in unpaid football taxes (and that's only part of it)

Tottenham must bridge credibility gap to end 20-year winless hoodoo at Chelsea

Premier League fans get cheapest shirts, Spanish giants the biggest rip-off

Man City's comeback heroics leave them on brink of points record

Lionel Messi's 234 goals for Barcelona: a complete statistical analysis

Lionel Messi's 234 goals for Barcelona - all in one video

YouTube sports chief rules out any bid for Premier League rights

'Basing your opposition to DRS on the fact that it isn’t foolproof is akin to sticking to a homeopathic potion because the $10bn medical facility doesn’t cure everyone'

Man Utd make the most of scoring first, and Arsenal are the kings of comeback

Spot the ball park: 30

Fair play? How Uefa's showcase event keeps 'big' leagues and clubs dominant

ANALYSIS: Manchester United have easiest run-in of all Premier League clubs

Chelsea's dramatic win means English clubs keep unique Champions League QF record

10 outstanding questions for UKAD on the Hull drugs cover-up

Football: it's only a matter of life, death and money

Baggies in search of first league win over United since 1984, first at OT since 1978

Man Utd v Tottenham: only the 14th most uneven contest in the Premier League

Blackpool chairman Oyston: 'Blame me for £11m payment to my dad'

Rangers latest: administrators make weekend 'stay of execution' call on job losses

The alternative best Olympic nations: Jamaica, Estonia, Mongolia, NZ, Georgia ... and Australia

Struggling QPR dream of continued Everton dominance as Baggies seek to end the pointlessness of their games against Chelsea

NEW STUDY: Football agents in Europe make €400 million a year

Rangers administrator's search for missing cash key to minimising job losses

Spot the ball park: 29

First aim for Connor at Wolves is first ever Premier League win against Newcastle

Landlady Murphy's conviction overturned but no closer to Premier League 'free for all'

Blackburn agree £11m sale of Samba to Anzhi, averting cash crisis

The race for London supremacy in the Premier League: Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal cumulative combined net transfer spend and first-team wages since 2002

Tottenham face Arsenal seeking capital kings status for first time since 1995

English Euro gloom: history shows woes of Chelsea, Arsenal et al almost certainly a blip

IN FULL: Craig Whyte statement on Rangers - 'I'll gift majority of shares to fans if I survive'

Revealed: Whyte and Ticketus meet Rangers administrators, confirm source of funds

RANGERS: Whyte ‘ignored settlement advice’, chances of regaining control recede

The most boring teams in Premier League history? Fulham, Coventry, Leeds, Aston Villa, Sheffield United ... and Stoke

Liverpool still ahead of Manchester United in all-time trophy haul

RANGERS CRISIS: Mystery deepens over Whyte links to former jailbird associate

Football titles world league: Rangers top, but who is most dominant?

ALEX WILLIS: 'The Spanish are reeling at the Spitting Image-esque doping slurs'

EXCLUSIVE: Djokovic, Nadal, Federer - as close to perfection as tennis has ever been

Man City visit Villa, their most profitable opponents, riding crest of points wave

A city united: Manchester goals deluge keeps record in sight

Deloitte's football clubs rich list: #RM #FCB #MUFC #BayernM #AFC #CFC #MILAN #INTER #LFC #SCHALKE

David Ginola 'will make a full recovery' after skiing smash

'Crashgate seemed like a gift to Romain Grosjean. It was actually a poisoned chalice'

On the 20th anniversary of Cantona's debut in England, a potted history of foreigners

Madonna pips gridiron as Super Bowl draws all-time US record TV audience

Premier League's first 'free to air' match, between City and Fulham, reaches 1.97m

Top 50 best paid sports teams by average first-team salary (2011 report)

Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United untouchable in cyberspace

The NFL, salaries, success and the chaos of relative fairness

NFL remains world No1 in attendance as Patriots and Giants meet in Super Bowl

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

Manchester United lose only one game in seven. Against Chelsea? One in three

Fulham's history in blue half of Manchester points to being City slickers

JOHN ROBERTS: 'As well as Busby's Babes, some of the nation's finest sports journalists died in Munich, 54 years ago on Monday'

'Spot-fix' teenager Mohammad Amir released early from prison

EXCLUSIVE: Funding body Sport England kept in dark over drugs cover-up

Rugby drugs cover-up dossier: Hull player and RFL official tell UKAD of multiple players using banned drug

Rugby drugs cover-up dossier: England star admitted he took banned drug

Rugby drugs cover-up dossier: Australian star admits he took banned drug, UKAD said 'don't worry'

Rugby drugs cover-up dossier: Sean Long's official submissions that he supplied and took a banned drug while at Hull FC in 2011

Fulham's positive omens: Johnson, Dempsey, February and hoodoo over Baggies

United, City and Tottenham thrive on road as away points at record high

Blackburn owners make 'goodwill' payment to bank as financial pressure mounts

Inside the court of Henry James Redknapp

The Sports Lawyer: 'It is entirely possible Dwain Chambers could compete at London 2012'

Serena Williams tops 'bad girls' fines list as secret sanctions revealed

EUROPE’S best young footballers: 50 'under-21s' making waves in ‘big five’ leagues

OFFICIAL: Premier League beats Bundesliga on ‘club-trained’ players as Serie A flops

NEW STUDY: Russian Premier League rapidly closing gap on Europe’s ‘Big Five’

In pictures: Blackburn crisis makes cover splash in India's No1 business paper

Tottenham face Manchester City hurdle en route to away wins record

Official Premier League figures on agents' fees for past two years

REVEALED: Football Association have 'watching brief' on Blackburn transfers

Sean Long EXCLUSIVE: 'I gave Gleeson banned drugs. Gleeson scapegoat in cover-up'

The Arab Spring, Libya and the African Cup of Nations: The effect of revolution and unrest has been to inspire, unite and embolden

Champagne proposals for Fifa reform set stage for presidential bid

COVER-UP: A guide to the biggest doping scandal in English rugby

REVEALED: The letter that exposes the history of Blackburn's crisis

Blackburn exclusive: the letter that proved Rovers were in crisis a year ago

FEDERER: So popular (and rich) he got votes in election he didn't enter

'Ivan Lendl should instill in Andy Murray the will to win when it matters most'

Villa look to kick-start season by chewing up most generous Toffees

Omens awful for Bolton as Manchester United seek swift end to losing run

HMRC aim to give elite football 'a good kicking' on tax after evasion tip-off

If tennis players were sports teams, Nadal is Real Madrid, Federer is Magic, Murray is Celtics and Wozniacki is Kings XI Punjab ....

Tennis players underpaid? Why Djokovic beats Barca and Kvitova is Manchester United

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

Revealed: The tennis 'grunting manual' that warns of 'unfair, unethical tactic'

You want clinical? Buy Berbatov, Fletch or Odemwingie (and NOT Chamakh)

A brilliant summation of the Suarez case by @tonyevanstimes...

Blackburn’s owners revamp survival plans in wake of Old Trafford win

Sport in 2012: glory for Murray, Manchester, Germany, London, TeamGB and Tiger

The best of 2011: Crawley, Man United, City, Southampton, Huddersfield