By Brian Sears 30 March 2012 Manchester City have won all 15 of their 15 home games in the Premier League this season, and remain on course to become only the second top-division team in 124 years of English league football history to win all their home games in a season. The only other time […]

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 […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 March 2012 An authoritative new report on replica kit deals across Europe’s five major leagues shows that the Premier League’s 20 clubs collectively are making more money in 2011-12 from kit supplier contracts (€109.7m or £91.5m) than their counterparts in Spain (€77.5m), Italy (€69.3m), […]

By Brian Sears 22 March 2012 Manchester City’s comeback win against Chelsea on Wednesday evening means they are just one win away from a club record tally of points in the Premier League – with nine games remaining. Their previous highest tally in a Premier League season was 71 points. That was last season when […]

Brian Sears 16 March 2012 The Premier League’s 20 clubs have won 772 points between them so far this season, and more than three-quarters of all the points – 588 points, or 76.1 per cent – have been won by the teams scoring the first goal. Some clubs are better than others at capitalising on […]

By Brian Sears 15 March 2012 Accepted football wisdom already has it that Manchester United have an easier run-in than their main Premier League title rivals Manchester City. But Sportingintelligence analysis of all the remaining fixtures for all 20 teams now shows not only is that true but that United have the easiest run-in in […]

By Brian Sears 5 March 2012 After seeing their team lose to Manchester United (again) on Sunday, many Spurs fans must be thinking their record against United is one of the poorest in head-to-heads in the history of the Premier League. It is poor, certainly, with just three wins in 40 meetings since the top […]

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, […]

Brian Sears 3 February 2012 Manchester United have suffered only 107 defeats in the 20 seasons of Premier League football, or 107 in 756 games to date since 1992. That’s an average of only one defeat for every seven games played. The next best club at avoiding defeat in the long term, Arsenal, have totted up […]

By Brian Sears 19 January 2012 In the 19 completed Premier League seasons Tottenham have never won more than seven games away from White Hart Lane in any one league campaign. This season they have already won six of their 10 games on the road. Their next away challenge is Sunday’s journey to Manchester City. Manchester […]