Dribbling is a much-admired skill in football. The best in the game are fixed into the history of the sport: players like Stanley Matthews, George Best and Diego Maradona are remembered for their almost superhuman ability to leave defenders trailing in their wake. Beating defenders one-on-one excites a crowd in a way only shots and [...]

In this post I have published a few simple Premier League team stats with consideration to the insight they provide in relation to the current league table.  It can be an interesting exercise to review certain measures and analyse their efficacy in explaining team performance. These types of stats should be taken with a decent [...]

Having looked at the top scoring strikers in the league in my previous post on the race for the golden boot, I now turn my attention to shooting statistics for the leading target men at teams in the bottom half of the table.  Players for these teams often ply their trade as lone strikers, with less than [...]

With 149 games of this season having been played and 231 to go, the race for the golden boot is starting to take shape.  With this in mind I have taken a closer look at shooting stats for the current top 5 goalscorers so far this season in the English Premier League: Demba Ba,  Michu [...]