Super statto: Sears

By Brian Sears  23 September 2011 Last weekend all three promoted clubs won their games, with Swansea scoring their first Premier League goals as they beat West Brom 3-0, QPR winning 3-0 at Wolves, and Norwich notching up a 2-1 win at Bolton. But though Swansea’s manager, Brendan Rodgers (left) will surely be reaching for […]

By Brian Sears 16 September 2011 Chelsea travel to Old Trafford on Sunday knowing they are the most successful club against Manchester United over the last 19 years of Premier League football. In 38 Premier League games played between the sides, Chelsea have gained 53 points to United’s 47, winning 13, drawing 14 and losing 11. […]

By Brian Sears 8 September 2011 Swansea have played three games in their Premier League adventure and have yet to score a single goal – which means they are already on the 10th longest goalless spell at the start of any Premier League season, and within two full games of the longest goalless opening. So […]

By Brian Sears 26 August 2011 Earlier this month we discussed the freakishly good away results being recorded in the early stages of this English season – so many more than we’d expect. And still, after two rounds of games, that trend has continued in the Premier League, with away teams winning 28 points so […]

By Brian Sears 19 August 2011   There was one table that Chelsea topped last season where Manchester United didn’t make the top four – the number of Premier League ‘doubles’ achieved within the 2010-11 season. Chelsea did six doubles – winning home and away against six different opponents, with Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham […]

By Brian Sears 12 August 2011 If Queens Park Rangers, Norwich and Swansea can manage victories in their opening games of the new Premier League season, then they have a 75 per cent chance of staying up. That at least is what statistical history concludes. QPR begin their campaign at home to Bolton, Norwich travel […]

By Brian Sears 4 August 2011 Charlton, Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday, Preston and Huddersfield are the top five favourites in varying orders with most bookmakers to get promoted from League One this season. It is little coincidence that they are also the five clubs who have spent the most post-war years above the current division […]

By Brian Sears 27 May 2011 When their relegation was confirmed last Sunday, Blackpool became the 26th side in the Premier League’s history to be relegated in the first season after coming up from the Championship. In this regard, they are ‘One-season wonders’ (OSWs), and though it won’t be much solace to them, their 39 […]

By Brian Sears 11 May 2011 For the 25th season, 12 clubs have made it through to the play-offs in the three divisions of the English Football League – and most attention will inevitably fall on the four teams chasing the £100m jackpot of entry to the Premier League. Swansea have the best play-off pedigree among […]

By Brian Sears 6 May 2011 These are w-w-w-worrying times for West Ham, Wolves and Wigan, who occupy the bottom three places in the Premier League before this weekend’s games, if not for West Brom under Woy, sorry Roy, Hodgson, who has lifted his team to safety. Woy’s boys could even storm into the top […]