There have been more goals than ever before in the Premier League. And despite the relative glut this weekend, many less draws. Plus, more players than usual are getting on the scoresheet. We look at these anomalies and the possible reasons why…
Every so often we see a football site that draws a nod of admiration. The latest to elicit such a response is the excellent Football Filter, an RSS based news and content aggregator. http://footballfilter.com is the address – once there you can view football news categorised under broadsheets, tabloids, blogs, podcasts, and more, and you can search by club. And we’re featured on it which is always a plus…
Chelsea look to continue their formidable start to the 2009/10 Premier League season as they travel to Wigan Athletic, while bottom-of-the-table Portsmouth host Everton on a weekend of nine top-flight fixtures.
What would we do without the Guardian? To save reviewing all the transfers of all the clubs, and where they’ve been left short – or bloated – we’ll just repeat everything that David Pleat allegedly wrote in the Guardian Sport Blog. We’ve even stolen the picture. It’s good though…
In the wake of Liverpool’s surprise home defeat to Villa, Chelsea have been installed at 6/4 favourites for the Premier League. If they do it, they will do it with Ancelloti’s ‘diamond’ formation – Andrew Walker examines it…
Here is the second part of our Premier League Preview (leaving you all of 24 hours to read it) along with our predicted final table… Part one is below. Read it now before the season starts and all our forecasts are immediately proved wrong.
We’ve been promising it for a while… but now all stories are indexed with the subject club, and you can access all of those about your team – or indeed any (Premier League only currently) team, by clicking here.
Man City are continuing their relentless pursuit of John Terry, with crazy figures like £300k being mooted in the press, in addition to a possible £30m transfer fee.
Is he worth it? Purely as a player, arguably not. He is 28, increasingly injury prone, and there are whisperings of increasing vulnerability. But by signing Terry, Man City get so much more than just a footballer.
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And little is left to be decided. Manchester United have clinched the title, West Brom are down, Boro are almost down… a slightly anticlimactic final weekend will see Hull, Newcastle and depending on tonight’s result Sunderland fighting it out to stay in the Premier League, Everton and Villa competing for fifth, and Spurs and Fulham battling to see who won’t put out a full side in the Europa League next season…
