Football Rumour Statistics for UK Newspapers

Here football transfer league shows you the stats behind all those rumours that the papers produce. Currently showing paper accuracy and average rumours produced (per day). Any interesting statistics that you think we are missing, please drop us a line.

Rumour Accuracy
Newspaper   Right   Total Num   Accuracy
The Guardian   221   647   34.2%
Daily Record   191   561   34%
The Scotsman   8   28   28.6%
The Independent   180   631   28.5%
The Herald   23   81   28.4%
The Times   327   1199   27.3%
Daily Telegraph   176   655   26.9%
The Express   363   1457   24.9%
The Sun   862   3899   22.1%
Daily Star   507   2330   21.8%
Daily Mirror   1538   7255   21.2%
Daily Mail   921   4397   20.9%
News Of The World   286   1697   16.9%
The People   131   893   14.7%
Metro   83   717   11.6%

Info: Figures are based on all rumours we have that have been resolved (player has transfered or signed a new contract). FTL rumour data goes back to the start of summer 2006 transfer window.


Average rumours produced
Newspaper   Average number
News Of The World   4.86
Daily Mirror   2.97
The People   2.56
The Sun   1.86
Daily Mail   1.8
Daily Star   0.95
The Express   0.6
The Times   0.49
Metro   0.29
Daily Telegraph   0.27
Daily Record   0.27
The Guardian   0.26
The Independent   0.26
The Herald   0.03
The Scotsman   0.01

Info: On average how many rumours do each paper produce a day. Again using all rumours from the start of summer 2006 transfer window.

Everything from The Sun down should be banned.