By Brian Sears  15 January 2016 Many fans in the Premier League this season have had to come to terms with their teams finding it harder to gain points on home soil. The statistics show home wins are running at an all-time low, or 39 per cent of matches to be precise. The lowest home win percentage in any completed […]

By Brian Sears 24 December 2015 Christmas is a time for reflection and a time to look forward and neither offers any merriment for Aston Villa. Ten points away from safety as things stand, they can look to no precedent in the Premier League era (the ‘monied’ era, since 1992) for a club with single-digit points at Christmas […]

By Brian Sears 11 December 2015 Fans of Southampton may be concerned after 15 games of this Premier League season to find their team in the bottom half of the table. But the Saints are still having their third best start out of their 17 seasons in the revamped top division. Here is a list of how […]

By Brian Sears 4 December 2015 In Arsene Wenger’s reign as the manager of Arsenal they have gained as many as 36 Premier League points from the first 14 games of a season (in 2007-08) and as few as 21 (in 2012-13) but the average for the Wenger era is 27. That’s the amount they’ve got so far this […]

By Brian Sears 27 November 2015 Just over a third of this Premier League season is complete and still the number of away wins remains unusually high, in fact on a par with the number of home wins. Of 130 games played, 48 have been away wins (the same as home wins), with 34 draws. We keep on […]

By Brian Sears 20 November 2015 The 20 Premier League clubs have all played their first 12 games of the 2015-16 season and Leicester are the team who have had the highest number of players – nine – who’ve featuring in every one of their club’s games so far, for at least a part of each game. Altogether […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . PROFILE: Tokyo Sexwale         Age: 62.     Born:  Soweto, 5 March 1953 Twitter:  Not yet.     Website: www.tokyosexwale.com (unofficial – no official site) Manifesto (PDF download):  Tokyo Sexwale manifesto. Football background:  Organising Committee for 2010 World Cup, FIFA Committee on […]

Part of Sportingintelligence’s guide to the 2016 FIFA presidential election: HOME PAGE here . PROFILE: Michel Platini           Age: 60. Born: 21 June 1955, in Jœuf, France. Twitter: None          Website: None        Manifesto (PDF download): None Football background: professional football player (1972-1987, AS Nancy, Saint-Étienne, Juventus); international (France, 1975-1987; Kuwait, 1988), manager (France, 1988-1992), […]

By Brian Sears 6 November 2015 There is a strong relationship in the Premier League between goals scored and points accrued. It’s not always the case that a goal is worth a point, and certainly there will be outlier teams who score more goals than they amass points, and vice versa. But across the league as a […]

By Brian Sears 23 October 2015 Three derbies in the Premier League this weekend have seen recent trends that highlight a turning of the tide between the teams involved. One team in each of the three pairings was clearly a better or stronger or competitive side in their first tranche of meetings in the Premier […]