By Brian Sears 14 September 2012 Arsenal have the youngest set of players in the Premier League in the 2012-13 season when considering the ages of those starting league games so far. Arsene Wenger has used 14 different starters in the three PL games of the campaign – and their average age is 25.6 years, […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 11 September 2012 One amusing vignette in the first episode of FOX’s forthcoming fly-on-the-wall Liverpool documentary features a brief exchange between midfielder Charlie Adam and the Boston Red Sox outfielder Cody Ross. It takes place in the locker room at the home of the Red […]

By Brian Sears 16 August 2012 Liverpool and Southampton have the toughest starts in the 2012-13 Premier League season, with Swansea and West Ham having the easiest set of opening fixtures, according to a Sportingintelligence analysis of each clubs’ opening six matches. Within an objective ‘tough rating’ system, the lower the rating, the harder the […]

By Sportingintelligence 23 July 2012 The American sports channel Fox Soccer will air a six-part ‘fly on the wall’ documentary about Liverpool in the Autumn, with the first episode due to be screened in the USA on 16 September. The show will air in the UK on Channel 5. A trailer is below.   . […]

By Brian Sears 4 May 2012 Premier League teams collectively have won fewer points at home than in any other season in the top-flight’s 20-year history. As the graphic below shows, just 57.3 per cent of all points have been won at home this season. Typically the figure is just above 60 per cent and […]

By Brian Sears 27 April 2012 Aston Villa and Liverpool are probably both grateful not to be playing at home this weekend: both are guaranteed to finish this season with home wins tallies at record bad levels. Neither’s plight on their own turf is acceptable to their fans, but Villa’s is particularly awful – all-time terrible in their […]

By Sportingintelligence 1 April 2012 [Table updated on morning of 2.4.12] Liverpool’s defeat at Newcastle on Sunday means the only team in the Premier League with a worse record than Kenny Dalglish’s side since the start of the year are Wolves. Liverpool have won just two games from their last dozen in the league since […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 17 February 2012 A story about Liverpool fan Lenny Woods’ impending latest trip of many to Wembley to watch his club Liverpool prompted a lively Twitter debate about whether his 33 trips there to watch his club was a record. FOR THE MOST RECENT ALL-TIME […]

By Brian Sears 18 November 2011 The Premier League’s long-time elite quartet of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea are under ongoing threat from Manchester City, Tottenham and even Newcastle (TBC), but ‘Big Four’ games still fascinate. And on Sunday we have the  234th such contest in the Premier League’s history when Chelsea meet Liverpool […]

By Brian Sears 13 October 2011 We can argue until the cows come home about the biggest rivalries and the biggest clubs in English football but there’s not a lot to argue about really. Two clubs have been dominant in winning the English title (19-18 is the current score with the rest also-rans) and they […]