By Brian Sears 5 November 2013 Manchester City’s mauling of Norwich on Saturday was their biggest ever win in the Premier League era. It was also the 32nd time in the Premier League, since 1992, that one team has thrashed another by scoring seven or more goals. The graphic below details every one of those […]

By Brian Sears 24 October 2013 A review by Sportingintelligence of all 8,306 games played in the 21 years and a few months of the Premier League shows that 2,232 of them have been draws, which is 26.9 per cent, with Norwich the club with the highest percentage of stalemates (of current clubs), and Manchester […]

By Brian Sears 4 October 2013 It’s 40 years ago that Manchester United embarked on the season that last saw them relegated.  That was the 1973-74 campaign, the first full season in charge for manager Tommy Docherty, and they lost three times in their first five games. Those defeats were all away from Old Trafford: […]

By Brian Sears 27 September 2013 Sunderland’s woeful start to the season has left them bottom of the Premier League with one point from five games, a tally that has led 64 per cent of clubs in the same situation to relegation. How so? In the 21 completed seasons of the Premier League, 14 clubs […]

By Brian Sears 20 September 2013 Arsenal have played 135 Premier League games at The Emirates since leaving Highbury in 2006, winning 87 times (a win rate of 64.5 per cent), drawing 31 and losing 17, including this season’s opening match against Aston Villa. Arsenal have won 292 Premier League points at the Emirates from 32 […]

By Nick Harris 9 September 2013 THE Premier League will earn $1.47 billion (£941m) from broadcasters in Asia alone for live rights to matches between now and 2016, Sportingintelligence can reveal, with the figure underlining the importance of that continent to English football’s elite. The biggest clubs are increasingly turning to the Far East markets […]

By Brian Sears 13 September 2013 If you win nothing with kids then Aston Villa and Southampton will win nothing – but their fans might appreciate they are trying to succeed with promising young players. There’s a huge contrast in the age of Premier League starting line-ups so far this season, from nippers Aston Villa (average […]

By Nick Harris 9 September 2013 When the summer 2013 transfer window closed a week ago, the 20 clubs of the Premier League had collectively spent £631,369,000 buying or hiring new players on a permanent basis, not including any players on loan or youth contracts. Sportingintelligence has assessed each club’s total spend and net spend […]

By Steve Menary 6 September 2013 FIFA has been accused of playing God after football’s world governing body used rules designed to prevent child trafficking to deny a 17-year-old British schoolboy the chance to take up a place on a college course – in Wiltshire. To make matters worse, the boy’s family has concerns that […]

Brian Sears 26 August 2013 David Moyes takes control of his first home league game as Manchester United manager on Monday evening seeking to uphold United’s astonishingly good home record in the Premier League era. How good? Well, they’ve played 405 home league games since the division was revamped as the PL in 1992-93 and […]