The ‘big five’ European leagues have released their schedules for the 2021-22 season so we have analysed the fixture difficulty for them all. While every team has to play everyone else at some point, timing can be everything. A tough start can easily undermine a positive pre-season, while a gentle run of opening fixtures can provide the momentum necessary for a successful campaign.
With Euro 2020 now over, attention is shifting to the upcoming domestic football season but the competition’s impact may be felt here as well. Until the first ball of a new campaign is kicked, the attention of fans tends to be fixated on the transfer market, where the Euro 2020 stars will have drawn the attention of the game’s big spenders.
The delayed European Championship captured our attention this summer, with domestic football taking a back seat after a long season. Club and league rivalries are still bubbling away though, so we tracked the fortunes of every player during the tournament in our Euro 2020 stats to see who contributed the most to it.
When the International Olympic Committee decided to push Tokyo 2020 back a year in response to the coronavirus pandemic, it disrupted the carefully-laid plans of many established athletes who were aiming to peak at the Games. For some British competitors who have yet to reach their full potential though, the delay has provided additional time for them to prepare.
As the 2020-21 play-offs come to a close and anticipation builds for next season, we’ve looked at the all-time NBA stats records to see which of the regular season marks are close to being broken – and who are the players chasing new landmarks?
With several of Europe’s leading clubs in a transitional period this summer, we’ve taken a look at which past seasons have seen the biggest exoduses of title-winning players and how it affected each team’s performances in the following years.
With Zlatan Ibrahimovic having signed a contract extension at AC Milan which will see him play Champions League football at the age of 40, we’ve looked through the annals of modern sporting history and picked out six other star athletes who defied the ageing process.
With cricket’s greatest rivalry set to be resumed in Australia at the end of 2021, we’ve taken a look back over 139 years of The Ashes history. As one of sport’s oldest trophies, these regular battles with England have produced plenty of memorable moments.
Any debate about which nation will win the European Championship will naturally centre around the relative strengths and weaknesses of each squad and their key players. However, an often-overlooked factor is the Euro 2020 draw itself.
With the ninth edition of the Women’s Rugby World Cup due to take place in New Zealand, we’ve taken a look at the numbers behind the previous tournaments. A delay until October and November 2022 is not expected to affect the excitement generated by this great spectacle.
This August will see the 89th staging of the 24 hours of Le Mans, the world’s oldest motorsport endurance race and one of the most prestigious. Here we delve into the recent history of the race to work out who could triumph this year.
To celebrate the return of the European Championships this summer, our analysts have devised a fiendish Euro 2020 quiz based on the history of the competition to date. There are only 10 questions, making it the ideal challenge for a coffee break or half-time interval.
This summer will witness two of the biggest events in global sport: the Summer Olympics and football’s European Championship. However, we wanted to shine a light on some of the less well-known tournaments that many sports fans may not even have heard of.
We’ve analysed every track and field event to reveal which nations have been the most successful medal winners at the Summer Olympics. For example, American athletes have won 315 of the 842 gold medals available – more than the next eight nations combined.