By Nick Harris 21 July 2014 With almost four weeks still to go before the start of the 2014-15 Premier League season, the PR battle for TV viewers in the host country of the world’s most-watched domestic football league is well underway. Sky Sports will again have the lion’s share of the live games in […]
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Where the money went: Liverpool top Premier League prize cash in 2013-14
By Sportingintelligence 14 May 2014 Liverpool were pipped to the Premier League title by Manchester City on Sunday but official figures released today show they ended the season at No1 in the cash stakes, measured by League ‘prize’ money. The Merseyside giants earned £97,544,336 from Premier League funds for their 2013-14 campaign, pushing champions Manchester […]
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Liverpool and Man City eye 105 goals to top Spurs ’61 vintage record per game
By Brian Sears 18 April 2014 The most thrilling English title race in decades has been made all the more sumptuous by the free-scoring exploits of Liverpool and Manchester City – and both clubs still have a post-war scoring record in sight. The record is the number of league goals per game in a post-war […]
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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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Why the 3-way title race hinges on games between Chelsea, Man City and Liverpool
By Brian Sears 28 March 2014 The top four teams in the Premier League this weekend before the action starts have all passed the 60-point milestone. They are the only clubs to do so and are the only four with any realistic chance left of winning this season’s title. (Some would argue Arsenal’s realistic chance […]
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FA Cup on the up with fans, even as Arsenal-Liverpool controversy looms
By Brian Sears 27 January 2014 One in five regular home fans stayed away from third-round FA Cup games but the weekend’s fourth-round games saw a marked rise in interest. Taking the total average league gates of all the home side into account, the third-round Cup matches were 19.1 per cent down on league games, […]
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Rampant Suarez helps Liverpool to a place in Premier League high-scoring hall of fame
By Brian Sears 17 January 2014 Any Premier League game with eight goals or more is a remarkable occasion, statistically speaking, because they happen so infrequently. In fact in the 8,436 Premier League games played so far over the past 22 years, only 75 of them have had eight goals or more. That’s only 0.69 […]
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Liverpool in search of first Premier League win at Stoke at sixth time of asking
By Brian Sears 10 January 2014 Liverpool have made five Premier League visits to Stoke City’s Britannia Stadium but have yet to win there in the PL era. Twice they have returned to Anfield with a point, and three times with nothing at all. Stoke’s home success against Liverpool can be seen in context in our club-by-club […]
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Takeovers, triumphs and Hansen’s first column: why the end of a Liverpool institution is a dark day for journalism
* By Ian Herbert 22 December 2013 The sign on the exterior wall of the building where I started out in this business, on a September morning 24 years ago, has not kept up with the sad diminution of the paper which became a rich part of my life for a decade. “Liverpool Daily Post […]
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Toon, Hammers and Stoke seek to end ducks against United, Liverpool & Chelsea
By Brian Sears 6 December 2013 There has been an uncommon amount of equality so far in this Premier League season, with the ‘smaller’ clubs getting some fine wins over the ‘big guns’ more frequently than we might expect. While acknowledging that a current top four of Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City and Liverpool is hardly […]
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