Super statto: Sears
April 6th, 2012
By Brian Sears
6 April 2012
At the start of this Easter weekend, Manchester City trail Manchester United by five points in the Premier League title race. By the time they kick-off at Arsenal on Sunday afternoon that gap could be eight points.
What greater motivation can Roberto Mancini's men have, then - aside from a league crown, ahem - to try to lay to rest a league hoodoo at Arsenal that stretches back more than 36 years?
City have not won at Arsenal in a league game since 4 October 1975, when Asa Hartford, Joe Royle and Rodney Marsh scored the goals for City, with...
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March 23rd, 2012
By Brian Sears
23 March 2012
Tottenham are winless in four Premier Leagues ahead of this weekend's fixtures, so the last place they need to go is Chelsea, where they play at lunchtime on Saturday.
Spurs' record at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League era is woeful: no wins in 19 visits to date, just six draws in those 19 games, six points, or 0.32 points per game, and not even a point since August 2008.
Spurs have a worse Premier League away record against only one other Premier League club: Manchester United.
Tottenham have played United at Old Trafford 20 times and never won...
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March 16th, 2012
Brian Sears
16 March 2012
The Premier League's 20 clubs have won 772 points between them so far this season, and more than three-quarters of all the points - 588 points, or 76.1 per cent - have been won by the teams scoring the first goal.
Some clubs are better than others at capitalising on scoring first, and Manchester United are the best of all.
They've scored first in 23 games and gone on to win 21 of them, and draw the other two. They've won 65 of the 69 points available to them in those games, only failing to gain maximum points when they drew...
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