By Nick Harris 19 October 2010 The Manchester united Supporters Trust (MUST) has responded to the news that Wayne Rooney wants to leave the club, with a spokesman saying he is “disappointed”, and that “we still hold out hope that the situation can be resolved.” MUST also use the development to highlight concerns over the ownership […]

By Brian Sears 12 October 2010 The international break provides an opportunity to take stock of the multinational melting pot that is the Premier League, and late last week we presented snapshots of the number of international players by club, and a breakdown of the 60 nations represented by full internationals in the Premier League […]

By Brian Sears 8 October 2010 The international break highlights the multinational nature of the Premier League, with players from every continent bar Antarctica now playing in England’s elite division. There are hundreds of them, most of them full internationals. (Scroll down for table). Sportingintelligence research of league games played so far in the 2010-11 […]

By Nick Harris 8 October 2010 Manchester City will struggle to avoid being banned from Europe by Uefa from 2013 onwards because of £250m already spent on transfers that still needs to be “processed” in their accounts in the next five years. Uefa has confirmed that City will not able to accelerate the “writing off” […]

By Nick Harris 1 September 2010 The Premier League’s 20 clubs have spent less on transfer fees collectively this summer (around £382m) than in any summer window for four years, but England’s elite remain comfortably ahead of the Europe’s other major leagues in spending, and net spending by the Premier League clubs (about £214m) remains […]

By Brian Sears 10 April 2015 Manchester City have been brilliant at times in recent seasons, thrilling to watch as they’ve scored at will and won two of the past three Premier League titles. But lately they’ve looked old, inconsistent and brittle, as well as costly in more senses than one. The defeat at Crystal […]

By Brian Sears 16 January 2015 Arsenal visit Manchester on Sunday to play Manchester City and then return to Manchester for their last away game of the season in May to play United. Old Trafford has long been hard work for Arsenal, not only in the Premier League era but throughout all the post-war years. In 67 […]

By Brian Sears 31 October 2014 The Manchester derby on Sunday reminds us how the pendulum has swung to the blue side of the city in recent years, and the graphic below charts the dramatic change over time. Manchester City have only been in the same division as United for 17 of the past 22 […]

By Brian Sears 5 April 2012 After a March slowdown in scoring, the Premier League is back on track for another season of record scoring – just. A hectic Easter schedule of football will see 20 top-flight games played between Friday night and Wednesday. In the last moments of the last day of last season, […]

By Brian Sears 10 February 2012 The Premier League remains on course for a second successive season of record scoring. In 240 games so far in 2011-12, which equates to 63 per cent of the season played, there have been 677 goals, or an average of 2.82 goals per game. If that level is maintained, […]