By Brian Sears 11 September 2015 Tottenham have the youngest starting XIs in the Premier League this season at 25.2 years, followed by Liverpool, while Newcastle are the only other team with an average under 26. Tim Howard (age 36) is the oldest player and Oxford Reece (age 16, turns 17 in December) is the […]

By Brian Sears 27 November 2014 Chelsea’s storming start in the Premier League is their best ever start in the 23 seasons of England’s revamped top division. With 32 points from their first 12 games, they are a point ahead of their previous best-ever tally at this stage – and more than nine points clear […]

By Brian Sears 16 October 2014 When the Premier League resumes on Saturday after the international break it will do so at the Etihad Stadium as Manchester City hope to close the gap on leaders Chelsea. City will play in the only fixture of the weekend where two current top-10 sides meet each other, against […]

By Brian Sears 29 August 2014 Played two, won two, scored five, conceded none, and both games in challenging London derbies. Tottenham’s start to the Premier League season under new manager Mauricio Pochettino could not have gone better. Wins over West Ham then QPR leave them top of the table before the third round of […]

By Brian Sears 7 March 2014 There have been seven ‘ever-present’ clubs in the Premier League, none of them relegated from the top flight since England’s top division was revamped in 1992-93: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham. That means each of those seven have now faced each of the others […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris 7 February 2014 Everton and Tottenham are both aspiring to play Champions League football next season and along with Liverpool, and perhaps Manchester United, are the only credible challengers for a top-four finish behind the three teams already highly likely to finish inside the top four: Arsenal, Manchester City […]

By Brian Sears 24 January 2013 The League Cup has been grabbing all the headlines this week, what with Bradford’s utterly extraordinary (and globally significant) progress to the final; Swansea’s stirring win over Chelsea on aggregate; and that kick (or was it a poke?), by Mr Hazard upon a ballboy who happens to be the […]

By Brian Sears 26 October 2012 It’s been a sorry season for Southampton fans so far, with just one win and a draw from eight matches since their return to the Premier League. They’e squandered leads against Manchester City, Manchester United, Everton and Fulham. Yes, they’ve scored in every league game, but then they’ve also […]

By Brian Sears 28 September 2012 For a club with aspirations to become regular top-four finishers in the Premier League, Tottenham have an absolutely woeful record in the Premier League when playing away against the clubs long known as the ‘Big Four’. In the 20 completed seasons of the Premier League they have played a […]

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 […]