Brian Sears 26 August 2013 David Moyes takes control of his first home league game as Manchester United manager on Monday evening seeking to uphold United’s astonishingly good home record in the Premier League era. How good? Well, they’ve played 405 home league games since the division was revamped as the PL in 1992-93 and […]

By Brian Sears 23 August 2013 Fulham have lost 68 home games in their 12 seasons in the Premier League and one club stands clear in inflicting the most defeats on them on their own turf: Arsenal. In 12 visits to Craven Cottage in the Premier League, Arsenal have won eight times. They are Fulham’s […]

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 […]

By Alex Miller 21 August 2013 The strength and popularity of the Championship has been highlighted in new research that shows England’s second-tier clubs combined sell more shirts per season than all the German, Italian, Spanish and French second-tier teams put together. According to findings released to Sportingintelligence by veteran analyst Dr Peter Rohlmann and […]

By Brian Sears 20 August 2013 It may seen ill-timed after a weekend of Premier League matches where four of the 10 games finished 1-0 and none of them were won by a 2-1 margin, but there is an unmistakeable trend in England’s top division that the 1-0 result has been overtaken by the 2-1 […]

By Alex Miller 20 August 2013 The combined shirt sponsorship income of the Premier League’s 20 clubs has again defied the recession by rising £18.65m year-on-year to a record £165.75m this season – with big winners but some fallers among the new deals. An increase in the total sponsorship revenues reconfirms the strength of the […]

By Brian Sears 16 August 2013 Chelsea have the best opening-day record in the Premier League era, winning their first league match of the season 13 times in the past 21 years and drawing another five for a total of 44 points from 21 games, or 2.1 points a game. Manchester United have the next […]

By Sportingintelligence 15 August 2013 This funky fixture guide to the 2013-14 season comes courtesy of the innovative folk at Match Story, and give an at-a-glance guide to the ease or otherwise of every team’s fixtures. See bottom of graphic for details, or click on graphic to go through to the interacitve version. We’re sure […]

By Nick Harris and Brian Sears 15 August 2013 The chances of correctly predicting the way the Premier League will finish in the 2013-14 season are minuscule; if we assumed that any team is capable of finishing in any position, the probability of getting top to bottom in the correct order is, mathematically, 2.432902e+18 to 1. […]

By Sportingintelligence 12 August 2013 Following Sportingintelligence’s ‘mapping’ of the nationalities of the players in the squads in the Premier League on Saturday (see related article here), the idea has quickly spread and there are maps popping up all over the internet for different leagues, quite a few of them on Reddit. As we spot […]