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The Football League journey of the founding members
In 1888 twelve clubs from the Midlands and the North West of England took part in the first ever Football League season. Preston North End, Aston Villa, Wolves, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, West...
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Analysis of player nationalities at Premier League clubs 2010/2011
As a follow up to my previous blogpost related to the different nationalities represented in the Premier League I thought it might be interesting to slice the data slightly differently. This time I’m...
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Foreign players in the Premier League 2011/2012
Following on from the post I made earlier in the week regarding foreign players in the Championship here we have the same information but for the top flight – The Premier League. As you would expect...
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EVERTON 2011/2012 SEASON REVIEW
The below word cloud was generated using all of Everton’s match reports from the BBC website from the 2011/2012 season. The more frequently a word is used, the larger it appears on screen. The image...
View ArticlePremier League 2011/2012 to 2012/2013 player changes
The close season is traditionally a time where clubs jettison their weak players, replacing them with footballers with the skill to take the club one step further, whether that be to qualify or...
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Premier League table for the 2012 calendar year
Manchester United were the club who picked up the most Premier League points during 2012. They are followed by their city rivals Manchester City who despite losing the same number of games as United,...
View ArticlePremier League: Doing the double over other clubs
If a club wins both the home fixture and the away fixture during a league season then they are said to have “done the double” over that side. In the Premier League during the 2012/2013 season 16 of the...
View ArticleGame 39: We’ve been here before haven’t we?
You might assume that the practice of two English clubs facing one another abroad was a recent invention, something adopted as part of the Premier League’s plan for global domination, however that...
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Late 1970s proposal for a British Super League
In the late 1970s a company called Marshall Cavendish released a series of football magazines which the avid reader would slip into binders to create their very own football encyclopaedia. One of the...
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Premier League 2013/2014 – a graphical review
The BBC website produces match reports for all of the games every single Premier League side plays during the season. From Premier League and FA Cup, to Champions League to League Cup ties the BBC...
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