It’s the festive season so we have taken a look at who in the Premier League is renowned for their generosity during December and who has a habit of ruining their opponents’ holidays. The graphic below breaks down the best and worst-performing clubs, managers and players – both over the whole … Read more
Few of Roman Abramovich’s many managerial hires since he took over at Stamford Bridge have matched the impact of Jose Mourinho’s bombastic arrival in 2004, but the dismal end to the Portuguese’s second stint has tarnished his legacy and left the Blues faithful ready for a new hero. In Antonio … Read more
Arsene Wenger has less unfinished business than most as he moves towards the end of his lengthy and largely successful time as Arsenal manager. There remain boxes still unticked though and along with his failure to secure an elusive Champions League title, his inability to defeat bitter rival Jose Mourinho … Read more
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ fourth Stanley Cup win last season saw the Eastern Conference snap a run of dominance from their Western rivals that had stretched four campaigns. With three wins from their opening six games of NHL 2016/17, their title defence has started steady, if nothing else. The Penguins can … Read more
The American Football Conference (AFC) has dominated recent instalments of the Super Bowl, beating their National Football Conference (NFC) adversaries in three of the last four years. The Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots and Denver Broncos have done the business for the AFC and all will be hopeful of being … Read more
The new NBA season will see LeBron James’ Cleveland Cavaliers attempt to defend the title they wrested from the clutches of the Golden State Warriors in 2015/16. Trailing 3-1 through four finals matches, the championship seemed certain to be heading to the west coast for the second successive season, before … Read more
Universally disagreed with by their armchair equivalents, the observations, analysis and comments made by professional pundits quite often receive as much attention as the action they’re paid to talk about. It’s for this reason that news.bwin have been monitoring the leading experts employed by the biggest broadcasters of the beautiful … Read more
Sam Allardyce has become just the 15th manager this century to end his international management career with a perfect record – at least among the top 50 countries in FIFA’s world ranking – after leaving his England post by mutual consent. The former West Ham tactician was called to a … Read more
When detailing innovations in sport, it is easy to solely focus on those of a technological nature. Hawk-Eye has already had a positive impact on both cricket and tennis, electronic scoreboards can be seen at venues across virtually every sport and goal-line technology is available in some sports, even if … Read more
New directives handed to referees by the Premier League, Football League and the Football Association before the start of the 2016/17 campaign have been generating big noise in the opening weeks of the season. Ryan Shawcross and Raheem Sterling have been among those to fall foul of the clampdown on … Read more
Research conducted by the statistics boffins at sports.bwin.com/en/news suggests that Premier League referees have never been keener to award penalty kicks. It’s news that’s likely to have penalty punters falling over themselves to back spot kicks in the Manchester derby, a contest that has been starved of 12-yard showdowns in … Read more
The almighty spending power of the Premier League in the wake of its recent enormous TV rights deal was evident in the recently closed summer transfer window, when its clubs spent near three times as much as their La Liga and Bundesliga counterparts. However, recent history suggests that it would … Read more
Make no bones about it, E-Sports is big business. It may not be mainstream, but it has a colossal following and successful players can make large sums of money. Research from 2013 concluded that 700 million people worldwide played online video games and it was an activity that crossed both … Read more
After seeing off 17 candidates representing various wings of the Republican party and none, Donald Trump’s shocking quest to be next President of the United States rolls on. Trump attracted a 33/1 quote to win the Republican nomination upon announcing his candidacy in June 2015, and had been as big … Read more