Another Premier League season has come-and-gone. While the league’s quality might have regressed versus others in Europe and the title race a bit too predictable by mid-season, there were many storylines that proved compelling enough through the final weeks of the season. The title race turned on Manchester United’s usual consistency and Manchester City’s inability to replicate the [...] Read more ›
Old Trafford and the Manchester United faithful bid adieu to Sir Alex Ferguson last Sunday evening in the only appropriate manner possible by giving him his thirteenth-and-final Premier League winner’s medal. It’d be easy to be dismissive of yet another title at this point given how much silverware Ferguson and the club have won over [...] Read more ›
Wigan has now joined QPR and Reading as the teams relegated from the EPL in 2013, which means the only high-profile table position left up for grabs this coming weekend is the final Champions League position. Manchester United, Manchester City, and Chelsea are already in next year’s competition, and either Arsenal or Tottenham will join [...] Read more ›
Soccer can be tough to quantify given the rarity of goals scored and what appears to the casual observer to be a bunch of non-value added actions that result in a vast range of outcomes that are anything by a goal. Compounding the low rate of goal scoring success can be a small sample size [...] Read more ›
Growing up in 1980’s and 1990’s America meant I was predisposed to play basketball. I loved the game even if my refusal to practice during the offseason meant my playing days were done by the time I reached high school. I lived for the game during my teen years, which led me to gain an [...] Read more ›
May 8th, 2013 has been circled on many Premier League fans’ calendars since the FA Cup Semifinal round on April 14th that delayed that weekend’s Chelsea/Tottenham Hotspur match. In the interim neutrals have been hoping that both clubs would remain close enough to each other to make the rescheduled match as meaningful as possible, while [...] Read more ›
The weekend’s action made official what observers of the EPL have known for months – Reading and QPR will be relegated at season’s end. The only question that now remains at the bottom of the table is who will be the third team to join them in the Championship next season. For a while it [...] Read more ›
If this weekend’s action in the EPL was meant to sort out much in the way of the top five table positions the contested matches failed at that task. The Blues predictable win at home versus Swansea, when paired with Spurs’ struggle for a tie at Wigan and Arsenal’s concession of a tie at home [...] Read more ›
In what may have been one of the more interesting weekends of Premier League action in a long time, viewers were treated to a wonderful synopsis of each of the top and bottom teams’ features and faults. If English teams now lack dominance in Europe, they’ve at least made up for it in widely inconsistent [...] Read more ›
With Manchester United securing their thirteenth title in twenty-one Premier League seasons and doing so with four games left in the season, it is fashionable to come up with explanations of “How Manchester United Won The Title.” Readers of this blog, which has been tracking each team’s title likelihoods since the beginning of the season, [...] Read more ›
