By Brian Sears 11 December 2015 Fans of Southampton may be concerned after 15 games of this Premier League season to find their team in the bottom half of the table. But the Saints are still having their third best start out of their 17 seasons in the revamped top division. Here is a list of how […]
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Better away: Hammers, Palace, Stoke, Arsenal and Liverpool lead trend-setters on road
By Brian Sears 27 November 2015 Just over a third of this Premier League season is complete and still the number of away wins remains unusually high, in fact on a par with the number of home wins. Of 130 games played, 48 have been away wins (the same as home wins), with 34 draws. We keep on […]
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Then there were six: City, Arsenal and United head title race ‘that only that trio or Palace, Foxes or Hammers can win’
By Brian Sears 16 October 2015 None of the previous Premier League champions – and 23 of them since the inaugural 1992-93 breakaway season is a fair sized sample – won fewer than 14 points from their first eight games before going on to take the title. And only two managed it after winning as few as 14 points, […]
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Four wins in 35: Man City’s PL record at Liverpool, Palace and Everton – combined
By Brian Sears 10 April 2014 Manchester City visit Liverpool this weekend in a match that could have massive implications on the Premier League title race, with a victory for either side sure to make them odds-on favourites to win the title. If City are to succeed on Sunday, they will need to overturn their […]
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Palace hope to avoid fourth Premier League cameo as one-season wonders
By Brian Sears 4 April 2014 Only twice in the 21 completed seasons of the Premier League have all three promoted clubs avoided relegation. That was in 2001-02 when Fulham, Blackburn and Bolton all lived to fight another season, and then two seasons ago when Norwich, Swansea and QPR all survived. Only once have all three promoted […]
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Swansea and Palace vie for hardest starts. Hammers, Saints & United on easy street
By Brian Sears 22 August 2013 The Premier League is not even two fixtures old and already the top three in the table – Chelsea, Manchester City and Manchester United – are probably most people’s idea of the final three in some order, while the three promoted clubs, among the favourites to go down, are […]
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Palace ‘fire sale’ imminent unless buyout concluded but extinction ‘not immediate’
By Nick Harris 1 June 2010 NB: 5.20pm UPDATE AT FOOT OF STORY Crystal Palace’s administrator, Brendan Guilfoyle, is still hopeful that a deal can reached today between potential buyers for the financially stricken Championship club and the Bank of Scotland, which is handling the – entirely separate – sale of the club’s ground, Selhurst […]
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Palace administrator: ‘Rich but pragmatic fans could be in control soon’ (no P Diddy)
By Nick Harris 31 March 2010 EXCLUSIVE The prospective saviours and owners of Crystal Palace are “high net worth” individuals but have a “pragmatic” view to club ownership, according to Palace’s administrator, Brendan Guilfoyle, who has told sportingintelligence this afternoon they would not be considering investing in a “risky” sector such as football if they […]
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Palace hopeful of “many interested buyers” after entering administration
26 January 2010 Crystal Palace entered administration this afternoon after the pressure from creditors and the size of the wage bill finally became too much for owner Simon Jordan to bear. But in a statement issued by the club, Brendan Guilfoyle of administrators P&A Partnership said: “We are hoping our appointment will be short-lived as […]
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Hull have hardest start, Baggies and Mourinho’s United the easiest
By Brian Sears 12 August 2016 So the 25th Premier League season is about to start and we reckon that Hull and Watford have the trickiest starts. West Brom have it easiest, followed by Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United. By the end of August each club will have played three league games before the international break. One ‘objective’ […]
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