By Brian Sears 23 December 2011 Merry Christmas, one and all. Although if you’re a Wigan or Wolves fan, it might not be too merry. Their next games, respectively at Manchester United on Boxing Day and at Arsenal on 27 December are against teams from whom they have NEVER taken a single Premier League point. […]

Brian Sears 15 December 2011 If Fulham have a Premier League “bunny” it is surely Saturday’s opponents Bolton. In their 10 completed Premier League seasons, Fulham have gained more points from Bolton (37 points) than from anyone else. They have also gained more points per game (1.85) than against any side they have played in […]

By Brian Sears 10 December 2011 The form book would seem to favour Martin O’Neill as his new club, Sunderland, have their first fixture under him against Blackburn on Sunday. Not only are Blackburn one of three clubs awaiting their first away win of this season but Sunderland haven’t been defeated by Blackburn in the last three seasons. […]

By Brian Sears 9 December 2011 Arsenal are the overall Premier League all-time runners-up to Manchester United in points terms to date, albeit trailing by 202 points (1607 for United and 1405 for Arsenal) in the 20 seasons of the Premier League including this one. Chelsea are in third place, 39 points behind Arsenal, and Liverpool are fourth, 61 points behind […]

By Brian Sears 24 November 2011 The natural home advantage we expect is slightly diminished this season in the Premier League, with only 56 per cent of all points so far being won by the home teams. This is a 20-year low; last season the figure was 63 per cent. Hence picking up points at […]

By Brian Sears 4 November 2011 Ten of the current Premier League clubs have never won a Premier League game at Old Trafford and on Saturday it will be Sunderland trying to break that duck. In 10 attempts to date, they’ve won just two points there, from these two games: 14 Apr 2006 Man Utd […]

By Brian Sears  26 October 2011 What with all the brouhaha about alleged incidents that have nothing to do with any beautiful game, it’s been easy to forget that QPR’s defeat of Chelsea at the weekend ended an unbeaten run of more than 10 years by Chelsea against promoted sides in the Premier League. As […]

By Brian Sears 20 October 2011 Aston Villa are the most successful Midlands team in the Premier League’s 20-year history, being the only ever-present club in the revamped top flight and managing 1.43 points per game on average in their 742 games to date. West Brom are the least successful Premier League team from the Midlands in the […]

By Brian Sears 13 October 2011 We can argue until the cows come home about the biggest rivalries and the biggest clubs in English football but there’s not a lot to argue about really. Two clubs have been dominant in winning the English title (19-18 is the current score with the rest also-rans) and they […]

By Brian Sears 30 September 2011 As if Bolton’s start to this season hadn’t been tough enough, they now face the visit of Chelsea – who in their last dozen visits to Bolton have had a remarkable turnaround in fortunes. In the pair’s Premier League games on Bolton turf, Bolton began with two victories; McGinlay, Curcic […]