Football Rumour Statistics for UK Newspapers

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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	226	660	34.2%
Daily Record	191	562	34%
The Scotsman	8	28	28.6%
The Herald	23	81	28.4%
The Independent	183	656	27.9%
The Times	333	1214	27.4%
Daily Telegraph	180	698	25.8%
The Express	368	1549	23.8%
The Sun	875	4032	21.7%
Daily Star	510	2407	21.2%
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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	4.62
Daily Mirror	2.92
The People	2.52
The Sun	1.83
Daily Mail	1.78
Daily Star	0.94
The Express	0.6
The Times	0.47
Metro	0.32
Daily Telegraph	0.27
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Info: On average how many rumours do each paper produce a day. Again using all rumours from the start of summer 2006 transfer window.

User Rating
Newspaper	User Rating
The Guardian	3.5 (18996 votes)
Daily Telegraph	3.5 (21594 votes)
Metro	3.5 (31750 votes)
Daily Mail	3.5 (119276 votes)
Daily Mirror	3.4 (164427 votes)
The Sun	3.4 (99313 votes)
The Independent	3.4 (13657 votes)
The Times	3.4 (27259 votes)
Daily Star	3.4 (50304 votes)
The Express	3.3 (36753 votes)
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Info: This is the average of the user rating for rumours produced by the newspaper.

Current Date
20/May/2013

Transfer window closes
31/Aug/2013

102 days till close of football transfer window

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