After compiling a cumulative Premiership table over the past twenty years, one comment suggested an alternative method of comparing lasting football league performance. It suggested comparing club-by-club seasonal performance against their average league position (ALP). As history only provides a certain precedent, the we can also use multiple time periods: say, five, ten or twenty years.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Overachievers/underachievers: 2011-2012 EPL
Posted on 11:30 AM by Unknown
After compiling a cumulative Premiership table over the past twenty years, one comment suggested an alternative method of comparing lasting football league performance. It suggested comparing club-by-club seasonal performance against their average league position (ALP). As history only provides a certain precedent, the we can also use multiple time periods: say, five, ten or twenty years.
Posted in cumulative table, English Premier League, EPL, EPL 2011-12, Premiership, tables
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Chelsea find themselves; win Champions League
Posted on 12:17 PM by Unknown
Chelsea's win over Bayern Munich during Saturday's Champions League final is a triumph that only three months ago was utterly inconceivable. The club was desperately short of form, many/most/all players had decided unilaterally that Andre Villas-Boas had no business coaching them and the team played with purposelessness rivalling beheaded chickens.
This is certainly due in part to Villas-Boas'
This is certainly due in part to Villas-Boas'
Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Twenty-year Premier League table
Posted on 1:59 PM by Unknown
The following is the cumulative Premier League table dating back to the inception of the Premier League in 1992-93. Although I'm among the first to admit that English football hardly began with that league's debut season, the twenty year mark create an anniversary feeling, allowing reminiscences and us to compile this table.
Movers this year include Manchester City, who climbed from eleventh
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Australia - lacking an identity
Posted on 8:33 AM by Unknown
Despite two consecutive series wins in
vastly different circumstances, the Australian cricket team still
tricks the eye. In one Test, Ed Cowan resembles a doughty old-school
opener, capable of withstanding the best attacks in world cricket;
the following, he disappears into the sheds at 1/11. During one
match, Shane Watson fights indomitably for a hard-earned 80; the
next, he plays over and
Posted in Australia, cricket, Ed Cowan, Michael Beer, Michael Clarke, One Day International, T20, Test
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Where to now for Bolton Wanderers?
Posted on 3:51 PM by Unknown
The Premier League season concluded
with one of the more exciting final days in recent memory. While it
was certain that either they or QPR would drop to the Championship,
the manner of Bolton's ultimate demise was unexpected but eventually
deserved. Since a promising start to 2010-11, the Trotters slid
rapidly from an FA Cup semi-final appearance to a horrible 2011-12
season.
There was bad
Friday, May 11, 2012
Kobe vs. Jordan - a tale of two flu games
Posted on 11:50 AM by Unknown
Kobe Bryant has played a careerlong
game of one-upmanship with the NBA's greatest. This is most
pronounced with Michael Jordan, the player with whom he is most often
compared. It's no secret that Kobe wants to be the greatest ever and
that he's almost painfully aware that to be so considered, he has to
surmount Jordan in achievement and legacy.
There is no end of comparison. Their
careers
Posted in basketball, Chicago Bulls, flu game, Kobe, Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, Los Angeles Lakers, Michael Jordan, NBA
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Cardiff City - football's "Indecent Proposal"
Posted on 9:58 AM by Unknown
How much money would it take for you to
compromise your principles?
Courtesy: itv.com
Cardiff City Football Club, who lost in
the first round of the English Championship playoffs this week, were
the recipient of just such an indecent proposal: 100 million pounds
to permanently re-brand the club, changing the club jersey from blue
to red and dispensing with their Bluebird nickname. City
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