A statistical tale of promotion into the Premier League…
…And how this may apply to the chances of survival for Reading, Southampton and West Ham… Every summer, one of the biggest pre-season talking points of the upcoming Premier League season is the three...
View ArticleA transfer window dominated by Manchester
Last season’s Premier League title race involved Manchester and Manchester alone, as City and United finished 19 points ahead of third-placed Arsenal. It wasn’t quite the 30 points between Barcelona...
View ArticleStoke City: why the outright praise?
There it was again. Another Stoke City draw, and more praise from a MOTD pundit, this time Mark Lawrenson. Last week it was Alan Hansen, who basically said the biggest positive you can give Stoke is...
View ArticleCole deserves number 100, but it’s time for Baines to become number one
Everyone always remembers the likes of Michael Ricketts, Steve Guppie and Anthony Gardner: those lucky enough to somehow don the Three Lions on their chest, despite rarely looking anything more than...
View ArticleWho will – and should – win the PFA Players’ Player of the Year Award?
Robin van Persie romping to the PFA Players’ Player of the Year award last season was as inevitable as yet another aggressive North Korean political statement. Two seasons ago, meanwhile, it was...
View ArticleI’m a footballer, get me out of here!
Following Christian Benteke’s transfer request at Aston Villa, Brett Curtis takes a look at ten of the more shocking and absurd transfer requests that have rocked the Premier League over the years....
View ArticleChelsea’s title? Maybe not
So José Mourinho’s back in town. He’s won the Premier League, the Champions League, Serie A, and the Portuguese league all twice each. He’s also won La Liga, the UEFA Cup, the FA Cup, the League Cup,...
View ArticleColback and Delph signify a dearth of holding midfield talent
It is now approximately a decade since holding midfielders replaced Pokémon cards and Micro Machines as the most collectible objects in England. In many cases, that’s exactly what they were: objects,...
View ArticleAssessing Balotelli’s debut and how he may fit in at Liverpool
Brendan Rodgers insisted Tottenham v Liverpool on Sunday would “not be the Mario Balotelli show”; in a sense, he was correct, as Liverpool produced by far their best performance of the season so far in...
View ArticleKey talking points from England’s burly night in Basel
Not even England can throw this away now Roy Hodgson remarked prior to England’s encounter with Switzerland that, “if the result costs us, we have to make sure we learn from losing the battle and win...
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