WEB WATCH: SPORTS SITES

The recent England test matches against Zimbabwe seem to have done

their bit to push cricket to the top of our sports websites table.

However, after CricInfo it is nearly all football. There are the

football-dominated general sports sites - Sportal.com and Sports.com -

followed by two of the larger straight football sites in PlanetFootball

and Teamtalk. Arsenal FC is the only Premier League website to make the

top ten while the PA and Trinity Mirror venture SportingLife is the only

representative from the world of traditional publishing.

Rank  Site                       Address             Latest monthly page

                                                  impressions (millions)

1     CricInfo                   cricket.org                        94.0

2     Sportal.com                sportal.com                        50.0

3     Sports.com                 sports.com                        *30.8

4     PlanetFootball             planetfootball.com                 30.0

5     Teamtalk                   teamtalk.com                       19.2

6     SportingLife               sportinglife.com                  *14.7

7     AutoSport.com              autosport.com                      13.7

8     Total Football Network     totalfootball.co.uk                11.2

9     Arsenal FC                 arsenalfc.co.uk                    10.0

10    FA-Carling                 fa-carling.com                      9.0

These are unaudited figures taken from publishers, unless stated. The

data used in this table is supplied by BRAD: www.brad.co.uk. Tel: (020)

7505 8458.

*ABC audited figures.

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