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We’ve not done one of these for a while – not since the inspired selection of Abou Diaby a few weeks back. So who is our beady eye on this week?
We’ve not done one of these for a while – not since the inspired selection of Abou Diaby a few weeks back. So who is our beady eye on this week?
It seemed about time to update our outdated stats section – read on for the stand-out statistical quirks in the Premier League, on a club by club basis. Note – thanks Football 365…
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.
There have only been 46 Premier League games so far this season but already there are some notable – or perhaps anomolous – statistics. Courtesy of Football365, here are the most salient in a top flight club-by-club format…
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…
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.
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, [...]
Here is the second half of our feature on the Premiership managers, focussing on the bottom half of the table. You can read the first half here. 11. Wigan – Steve Bruce Arguably the most inconsistent team in the Premiership – blessed with talent such as Zaki, Heskey, Palacios and Valencia, Wigan blow hot and [...]
Liverpool missed out on the chance to go three points clear at the top of the Premiership, lacking invention and imagination in being held to a goalless draw at Anfield. Without Torres, and with Gerrard misfiring, Liverpool showed the same absence of inspiration that cost Chelsea against Arsenal. The real winners from this weekend have [...]
Just to compound my frustration, anger and irritation at the dirty, cheating b@stard James Collins, he has been awarded 3 bonus points by Fantasy Premier league (the most available) for his underhand, dishonest defending. He should have given away two penalties, he should have been sent off – instead he walked away with the man [...]