Sporting Intelligence

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?

England's top-flight clubs have spent more money, gross, on new players this window than the other 'Big 5' leagues in Italy, Germany, Spain and France combined

Chris Froome won the Tour de France 4 times, and is back in the news after a serious accident. Here's a story about him being uniquely co-operative in a doping probe.

The three-times Champions League winner and all-time top scorer in the history of AFCON has a troubling history as a football administrator, and faces new allegations

The Premier League is back! Man City are top of the table and the 20 PL clubs will spend more this summer than ever. But what about THAT case and its outcome?

The 39-year-old former defender got Southampton promoted from the Championship to the Premier League, then his team imploded and he got sacked. What now at Ibrox?

England's Lionesses won Euro 2025 and attracted 65,000 fans to their celebrations outside Buckingham Palace. That's the glory game. The men's game? It's all about £