By Brian Sears 10 January 2014 Liverpool have made five Premier League visits to Stoke City’s Britannia Stadium but have yet to win there in the PL era.  Twice they have returned to Anfield with a point, and three times with nothing at all. Stoke’s home success against Liverpool can be seen in context in our club-by-club […]

By Brian Sears  30 December 2013 Of all the teams playing in the four main divisions of English football in 2013, Arsenal performed the best in the calendar year in terms of points per game. Arsene Wenger’s side played 38 league games, winning 25 and drawing seven for 82 points in total or 2.16 points […]

By Brian Sears 20 December 2013 You need to win your home games: it’s one of those football cliches that is a cliche because it tends to be true at both ends of the table. If you want to win the title, invariably it will be great home form that is the bedrock on which […]

By Brian Sears 13 December 2013 Everton host Fulham at Goodison on Saturday seeking to maintain perhaps the longest 100 per cent winning run against the same opponent at the same venue in English football. Everton have beaten Fulham in 20 straight league games at home now, dating back to 1961. They seek a 21st […]

By Brian Sears 6 December 2013 There has been an uncommon amount of equality so far in this Premier League season, with the ‘smaller’ clubs getting some fine wins over the ‘big guns’ more frequently than we might expect. While acknowledging that a current top four of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool is hardly […]

By Brian Sears 29 November 2013 West Ham’s indifferent start to the season sees them poised just above the relegation zone but they face their ‘favourite’ Premier League opponents, Fulham, this weekend. As the graphic below shows, West Ham have met Fulham 18 times in the Premier League era and won more points per game […]

By Duncan Castles 26 November 2013 The managing director of Leeds United, David Haigh, hopes to be named as Tory party candidate for Northampton South at the 2015 General Election, his spokesman has confirmed. The development will raise questions from some Leeds fans over the medium-term intentions of Haigh at Elland Road, and over the […]

By Brian Sears 21 November 2013 Everton have finished higher than Liverpool in the past two Premier League seasons but in the 67 completed post-war campaigns, Liverpool have a 51-16 lead in who has finished higher in England. In graphical form, that 67-year head-to-head looks like this (article continues below): Everton fans of a certain […]

By Nick Harris 17 November 2013 A new report published this evening by Amnesty International and based on interviews with workers, employers and government officials, says that Qatar’s construction sector is “rife with abuse, with workers employed on multi-million dollar projects suffering serious exploitation.” Amnesty say that the full 166-page report – The Dark Side of Migration: […]

By Brian Sears 8 November 2013 Evidence for a home banker is rarely as strong as the statistical evidence that suggests Chelsea are home bankers this weekend against West Brom. Exhibit A is Chelsea’s home form this season: played five, won five, scored 12, conceded three. Only Chelsea and Manchester City in the whole of […]