Arsenal and Chelsea go into the final Sunday of the Premiership season with the prize of automatic qualification for the next year’s Champions League still to be decided. Chelsea hold their fate in their own hands and victory at home to Everton will re… Read more ›
We have finally reached the end of the season so for the last time in 2012-2013 here are the Eastwood Index’s (EI) probabilities for the English Premier League. Once the season is over and done with I’ll be looking back at how the EI has performed and how well it’s predictions compare with the bookmakers [...] Read more ›
Intracity rivals Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid meet in the Copa del Rey for the fifth time in history and first since 1992. Atletico has won the title in all but one of the four previous finals meetings with its rival. Real Madrid managed to win in 1975 only on penalty kicks. Ironically, Real Madrid lost all three finals against Atletico playing at its home stadium, and won the only final matchup between the two at Atletico Madrid’s stadium. Despite Real Madrid hosting Friday’s final, tickets for the event have been divided evenly between the teams. Read more ›
Stoke City’s innovative style of play, involving making the very best of the limited assets available wasn’t merely restricted to the Delap/set piece routines so familiar to recent Premiership audiences. Paul Maguire, floating in the near post corners … Read more ›
This was planned to be a short post but I keep finding interesting nuggets and no-one in their right mind would read the whole thing in it’s entirety, so I’ll split it up somewhat. I think we are all aware that the data provided to the BBC by the Press Association isn’t perfect. I certainly … Continue reading »
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The Times excerpted from our forthcoming book The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong. Click here to read the excerpt. Enjoy! Read more ›
The Times excerpted from our forthcoming book The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Football Is Wrong. Click here to read the excerpt. Enjoy! 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 ›
In my previous post I looked at how Arsenal’s attacking and shooting tendency was tailored towards the particular game and scoreline states in which they found themselves over the 2010/11 season. Arsenal were the pregame favoured team in virtually… Read more ›
