By Brian Sears 23 August 2012 Of the 7,857 Premier League games played since the revamped top division began 20 years ago, 2,109 have ended as draws, or just over a quarter of all games, or 26.8 per cent. The club with most draws Premier League draws (absolute total) is Aston Villa, with 240 from […]

By Brian Sears 26 April 2012 Everton meeting Fulham in the Premier League is a statistician’s delight.  It happens for the 22nd time this Saturday and although it’s a mid-table battle (Fulham trail Everton by just two points) and of little consequence at the top or bottom of the league, it has intriguing statistical interest. Ten […]

By Brian Sears 20 April 2012 Manchester United just need to execute some classic top-of-the-table – win their last two home matches and draw their last two away games – to ensure they’re the champions of England for a 20th time, and 13 times in the Premier League era. Unlucky for everyone else. In the all-time table in the Premier League’s […]

By Brian Sears 1 March 2012 Certain football club pairings throw up a dominance by one over another across very different eras that logic alone cannot explain. Everton by most neutrals’ estimation are a ‘bigger’ club in all senses than Queens Park Rangers. Everton have won nine English league titles and five FA Cups and […]

By Brian Sears 30 December 2011 Everton have won 999 points from their 751 Premier League games to date in the PL era, so need just one more point for 1,000. It should arrive soon. Their next game is at West Brom on Sunday, then they play at home to Bolton on Wednesday 4 January. […]

By Brian Sears 9 December 2011 Arsenal are the overall Premier League all-time runners-up to Manchester United in points terms to date, albeit trailing by 202 points (1607 for United and 1405 for Arsenal) in the 20 seasons of the Premier League including this one. Chelsea are in third place, 39 points behind Arsenal, and Liverpool are fourth, 61 points behind […]

Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 30 October 2011 When Everton won the First Division title in 1984-85, a typical XI would have been Southall, Stevens, Van Den Hauwe, Ratcliffe, Mountfield, Reid, Steven, Heath, Sharp, Bracewell and Sheedy, with plenty of appearances as well for some bloke called Andy Gray. The top […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 9 September 2011 Everton’s meeting with Aston Villa on Saturday comes at a time of financial crisis for the Goodison Park club. They’ve sought but cannot find any new investment. (See now notorious transcript of fans’ meeting with Bill Kenwright). They needed […]

By Brian Sears 14 April 2011 The battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League is tighter than a sealed envelope, and 3.814592 times stickier (we reckon), which means that any advantage that a struggling team can muster – physical, mental, psychological – could make the difference between staying in the Promised Land or heading to […]

By Alex Miller at SportAccord, London 7 April 2011 Keith Harris, the chairman of the investment bank Seymour Pierce and the man who brokered billionaire takeovers at Premier League clubs Chelsea, Aston Villa, Manchester City and elsewhere, has revealed today that he has advised Liverpool and Everton to groundshare. Harris, speaking at the SportAccord conference […]