Sporting Intelligence

There are many different ways to gauge a football team's chances of success, from rankings to bookmaker odds to form. Here we consider the players' insurable values

Today we're looking ahead to the major events in global football in 2026, and bringing to your attention some football stories that will garner headlines this year

In 2023, I wrote an investigative feature for the Mail on Sunday about the behaviour of multi-club ownership groups, focussing on Man City's owners. They didn't like it!

Pep Guardiola's side have won more Premier League points per game in this calendar year than any other team in England's top division. But what does it mean?

Sepp Blatter oversaw some terrible misconduct and was far from perfect. But he asked world leaders: "What can you do for football?". Infantino asks what HE can do for THEM.

When Goalhanger diversified from TV production to podcasting, I was among the first they asked to get involved. What happened next? A huge phenom - not involving me!

Two stories from 2023 elicited markedly different responses from two massive Premier League football clubs. One was threatening, the other took actual facts into account

Scotland pulled off a remarkable win against Denmark this week to qualify for the World Cup, but the outstanding moment was the captain's love for his late team-mate

Blackburn Rovers were bought by the Rao family from India (aka Venky's) in late 2010. Within months the club was in chaos, and secretly being run by a now defunct agency

The CIES Football Observatory in Switzerland has produced a new report that lists the 100 players who should be earning most due to their talent. It's great debating material

Yesterday’s feature about Bradley Wiggins’ latest autobiography, The Chain, included lots of background detail about the investigative work that underpinned years of digging into corruption in British cycling, and has had a HUGE and unprecedented response from you,

Bradley Wiggins' latest autobiography, The Chain, contains claims about a dark conspiracy at Team Sky. Mutual destruction awaits if someone tells the actual truth

A recent report by Ed Willison revealed more than one in five athletes at the 2022 Commonwealth Games admitted doping. Today: 11 other "prevalence" studies in sport

Scotland's 12 top-flight clubs spent £50m collectively om players this summer. England's best clubs spent £3bn. A deep dive into what the transfer activity means

Simon Lazenby has been the lead presenter of Sky Sports’ F1 live coverage since 2012 and now his brilliant new book goes behind the scenes with F1's unheralded heroes.

2026 World Cup qualifying concludes across Africa this week, and with Ghana as a case study, a new investigation says economics and exploitation hold Africa back

Among many strange episodes investigating the owners of Premier League football clubs, one story took an unexpected turn and I almost found myself in charge

15 years ago Kenny Huang, supposedly a genius Chinese entrepreneur but actually a lying conman, nearly bought LFC. I stopped him. Here's how, and what he did next.

Research shows the 100 most expensively assembled squads in the world have six Premier League teams at the top. Today: analysis, and manager 'life expectancy'.

Scotland and Norway have populations of about 5.5m people, and long football histories and deep passion for the game. Why does one punch way above its weight?