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Monday, December 14th, 2009
I was going to write another bit about Rooney’s dive this weekend, but I bore myself with the diving dogma so no doubt any regular readers we do have are bored also. And then I saw Patrick Barclay had written a piece, and I like him, so I’ve reprinted that instead. And then I saw he’s also commented on the penalty issue (goalkeepers advancing off their lines) which was going to be my other piece – so I’ve just reprinted that too. This site is rapidly turning into reprint central – but at least the quality of writing is going up…
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
It seemed about time to update our outdated stats section – read on for the stand-out statistical quirks in the Premier League, on a club by club basis.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…
Monday, September 28th, 2009
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…
Friday, September 25th, 2009
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.
Monday, September 14th, 2009
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…
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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…
Monday, August 24th, 2009
United back on form, Arsenal continue their form, Burnley win again, more misery for Portsmouth, some dodgy decisions and some great refereeing, and Lescott finally moves… read on for a sideways look at a big weekend’s action in the Premier League.
Friday, August 14th, 2009
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.
Monday, December 15th, 2008
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, [...]
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
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 [...]