Picture the scene. Sepp Blatter, fed up with England’s dominance of European football, decides to ban all non-British & Irish players from the Premier League. In this post-Apocalyptic world, Aston Villa would probably romp to the league title…
Time is tight this busy Monday but having a ‘weekend preview’ as the top story is just irritating. So instead we’ve used Football 365’s ever excellent ‘winners and losers’ feature. Cheers…
As we always say, in-depth reports and stats are better found elsewhere – we usually recommend the BBC, but after the Strictly Come Dancing fiasco they can no longer be trusted… so try Times Online instead.
Our mini-round up starts with the Big Four – a couple of weeks after they all failed to score, this [...]
Both English sides lost last night, but with contrasting consequences – Villa’s surprise 2-1 home defeat to Zilina did not stop them qualifying due to results elsewhere, but Portsmouths’ 3-2 defeat in Wolfsburg meant they could not progress.
Obviously lots of goals last night, which is nice, as thanks to our friends at Wakuba we backed [...]
15 games in, how have the Premiership managers fared so far this season? We take a look…
1. Chelsea – ‘Big Phil’ Scolari
Up until a couple of weeks ago, there would have been no complaints. But after home defeats to both Liverpool and Arsenal in the last few games, along with stuttering progress (not yet secured) [...]
A wholly uninspiring set of results yesterday. You can can get full match reports and details of the tedium elsewhere, so we’ll focus on a more abstract element of each game.
Stoke 1 Hull 1
A debatable 73rd minute penalty, won and converted by Ricardo Fuller, cancelled out Marlon King’s excellent strike on the stroke of half [...]
For the first time for nearly a century all of the current big 4 – Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd, and Arsenal – failed to score on the same weekend. Arsenal were the only side to lose, 3-0 to Man City, to further compound their misery and disarray. This is the most testing period Arsene Wenger [...]
Here is the Premiership table updated after this weekend’s fixtures (courtesy of the BBC).
Barclays Premier League : Table 16 Nov 18:04
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Team
P
W
D
L
F
A
W
D
L
F
A
GD
PTS
1
Chelsea
13
3
2
1
13
3
7
0
0
19
1
28
32
2
Liverpool
13
5
1
0
11
4
5
1
1
10
4
13
32
3
Man Utd
12
5
1
0
18
4
2
2
2
7
6
15
24
4
Arsenal
13
4
1
2
14
10
3
1
2
11
5
10
23
5
Aston Villa
13
3
2
1
10
7
4
0
3
12
9
6
23
6
Hull
13
2
2
3
7
14
4
1
1
12
7
-2
21
7
Everton
13
1
3
3
7
12
4
1
1
12
9
-2
19
8
Middlesbrough
13
3
1
2
7
9
2
2
3
7
9
-4
18
9
Portsmouth
13
3
1
2
8
6
2
2
3
5
12
-5
18
10
Fulham
12
5
1
1
10
5
0
1
4
2
6
1
17
11
Sunderland
13
2
1
3
6
8
2
2
3
6
11
-7
15
12
Man City
13
3
0
3
16
8
1
2
4
10
14
4
14
13
Bolton
13
2
2
3
6
7
2
0
4
5
8
-4
14
14
West Ham
13
3
1
3
11
11
1
1
4
5
11
-6
14
15
Stoke
13
4
0
2
10
9
0
2
5
3
15
-11
14
16
Wigan
13
1
2
3
3
8
2
2
3
12
10
-3
13
17
Newcastle
13
3
2
2
11
9
0
2
4
6
13
-5
13
18
Blackburn
13
1
2
4
4
12
2
2
2
10
12
-10
13
19
Tottenham
13
2
1
3
6
6
1
2
4
10
14
-4
12
20
West Brom
13
2
1
4
8
14
1
1
4
2
10
-14
11
There are a ridiculous 10 points between bottom and 6th place, and anyone across that range is very much at risk of [...]
