By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 23 February 2012 It’s happened to the Italians three times. It’s happened to the Germans three times. It’s happened to the French nine times. It’s even happened to the Spanish. It’s never, yet, happened to the English. The terrible fate of which we speak? No club in […]

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. […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 16 December 2011 Manchester City are in their 15th season of Premier League football, having missed five seasons elsewhere, and they are, of course, a very different club from when they were founder members of the Prem in August 1992. This weekend they […]

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 Sportingintelligence  22 November 2011 Borussia Dortmund’s manager Juergen Klopp has dismissed stories that his brilliant 19-year-old German international attacking midfielder Mario Goetze could be on his way to Arsenal for £30m in January as ‘a media issue’. In an interview with the Sport1 website in his native country, Klopp said: “No one just buys […]

By Brian Sears 27 October 2011 Chelsea are on the verge of overtaking Arsenal as the No1 club within London over the entirety of the Premier League era. Both teams have played 177 London derbies in the Premier League to date, with Arsenal amassing 321 points, and Chelsea gaining 318. (For the full London derby table, […]

* By Sportingintelligence 9 October 2011 The online auction to raise funds in memory of Sir Bobby Robson – with amazing lots involving Lionel Messi, Barcelona, Jose Mourinho, Pele, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and many, many more – is now live. You can visit to charity home page here. You can go straight to […]

By Alex Miller at Leaders in Football, London 6 October 2011 Arsenal’s chief executive Ivan Gazidis has claimed the club’s current lowly league position is not a concern and added the Gunners “could afford to miss out on Champions League” next season and continue to compete for the league title. The club has qualified for […]

  * JORGE VASCONCELOS follows the Premier League from Santos in Brazil, where he lives a couple of miles from the Estadio Urbano Caldeira – the footballing home of Pele between 1956 and 1974. Like every Brazilian, he’d claim to know what constitutes a beautiful game. And in his debut article for Sportingintelligence, he explains how […]