By Brian Sears 3 February 2012 Earlier in the week we highlighted how Fulham had held a perfect Prem record against West Brom, and no sooner had we highlighted it, it went pop as they could only draw 1-1. That’s Sod’s Law – and the glory of sport. Neither does it prevent me from highlighting, […]

By Brian Sears 30 January 2012 I’m often saying to myself: ‘It’s a funny old game,Brian.’ Take Fulham. They go 386 Premier League games without one of their players notching a Premier League hat-trick and then Andy Johnson does it for them at home to QPR, and then just 15 games later, with timing reminiscent of London buses, […]

By Brian Sears 30 January 2012 Very early in the current English football season, we considered the freakish number of away points being accumulated across the divisions. At that stage a minority of points were being won at home. That was never going to last but with almost 60 per cent of the Premier League […]

By Dan Kennett 5 January 2012  MONEYBALL. As someone who works with data on a daily basis in a business environment, Moneyball appealed to me on many levels, not least because the story was so well written by Michael Lewis and the Hollywood movie was pretty entertaining too. (See trailer, article continues below). . . However, Moneyball […]

By Brian Sears 30 December 2011 Tottenham will soon become the first club in the Premier League era to have conceded 1,000 goals in Premier League matches. To date, they have conceded 998 in 751 Premier League games at a rate of 1.33 per game. One might reasonably expect two more at some point in […]

By Sportingintelligence 7 November 2011 As we report elsewhere today, an alternative top 10 English league table for the current season – compiled by points per game won across all four professional divisions – has Manchester City at the top, followed by Manchester United, Charlton, Newcastle, Southampton, Southend, Tottenham, Crawley, Huddersfield and Chelsea. Using the […]

By Sportingintelligence 1 October 2011 Harry Redknapp is the latest Premier League manager to pay tribute to the late England manager Sir Bobby Robson and donate a unique prize to the charity auction in Sir Bobby’s memory. Tottenham will donate a shirt signed by the all squad to be presented to the winning bidder by […]

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 Sportingintelligence 17 June 2011 Premier League champions Manchester United will begin the 2011-12 league season against West Bromwich Albion at The Hawthorns on 13 August. The fixtures were released at 9am on Friday. Chelsea, runners-up in 2010-11, start at Stoke, while Arsenal begin next season on the road too, at Newcastle. Manchester City will […]