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November 29th, 2013
By Brian Sears
29 November 2013
West Ham's indifferent start to the season sees them poised just above the relegation zone but they face their 'favourite' Premier League opponents, Fulham, this weekend.
As the graphic below shows, West Ham have met Fulham 18 times in the Premier League era and won more points per game from Fulham (1.94) than from any other current Premier League team who they have played more than once. (They've played Cardiff once in the PL and beaten them).
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The tables throw out some fascinating side issues. How many Hammers fans now recall what a difficult side Leeds United...
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November 26th, 2013
By Duncan Castles
26 November 2013
The managing director of Leeds United, David Haigh, hopes to be named as Tory party candidate for Northampton South at the 2015 General Election, his spokesman has confirmed.
The development will raise questions from some Leeds fans over the medium-term intentions of Haigh at Elland Road, and over the involvement of Dubai-based GFH Capital (GFHC), where Haigh is deputy chief executive. GFHC currently claim to own or control the majority of Leeds shares.
Haigh’s spokesman says that if selected Haigh intends to combine his responsibilities for “the day-to-day running of the club” with his political commitments as a prospective...
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November 21st, 2013
By Brian Sears
21 November 2013
Everton have finished higher than Liverpool in the past two Premier League seasons but in the 67 completed post-war campaigns, Liverpool have a 51-16 lead in who has finished higher in England.
In graphical form, that 67-year head-to-head looks like this (article continues below):
Everton fans of a certain age will look back on their purple patch of the fifties and early sixties when Liverpool were away from the top division for eight years and Everton finished higher for nine consecutive seasons.
Other rare seasons of Evertonian supremacy have been scattered down the decades, always singly, until the last two completed seasons when...
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