Wayne Rooney has been regarded as England’s best player and one of the best forwards in the world by many. It is not surprising then that Rooney is the third highest-paid footballer in the world after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, with an annual income of  £18 million, including sponsorship deals. After his arrival from Arsenal in the [...]

A defence should be as unbreachable as a fortress. And to build these fortresses, you need rocks. Massive rocks that can weather any storm and bear any pounding. If one looks back at the Premier League era, only a handful of names stand out as those rocks. But then, a specific marquee pair stands out [...]

The Lewandowski transfer saga has been going through some interesting twists and turns of late, and some of these developments seem to have left open the possibility of him signing for a Premier League club. It is a very complex situation that currently surrounds the player, and a lot of it is linked to Bayern [...]

English football was once known for its ability to embed itself in its surrounding communities. With clubs played for their fans, owners understood the culture behind the clubs and fully represented their supporters’ interests, and fans gave them their almost religious support in return. In the last decade however a trend has started growing where [...]

WHAT IS THE DEFINITION of a talisman? United have Van Persie, City have Aguero, Liverpool have Suarez and Spurs of course have Bale. Each Premier League squad has its key player, but does their ability to perform to a high standard depend on their talisman’s presence on the team-sheet? The obvious team to have a [...]

As a football fan, there is nothing I enjoy more in the game than watching a winger go past their full back and then deliver a menacing cross into the box.  The Premier League has been blessed with some fantastic wingers or wide midfield players in it’s time, from Ryan Giggs to Gareth Bale, Marc [...]

At some stage, within every single club forum, there will be a comment that states “…we need an experienced manager” or a version thereof.  This got me thinking, and caused me to ponder a few questions: Does experience really matter when recruiting a manager? Are modern methods more relevant than experience? Does managerial performance improve with [...]

There has been much talk in the press of newly appointed Manchester United manager, David Moyes, raiding his former club Everton to strengthen the Manchester United squad.  The majority of the rumours have surrounded the potential signing of Belgian International Marouane Fellaini, but there have also been significant column inches dedicated to the potential signings [...]

There has been increasing speculation over the possible transfer of Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona back to the English premier league. Rumours that both Manchester United and Arsenal are both currently tracking the player and Cesc himself could be interested in moving back to England. The recent news of the Brazilian forward Neymar finalising his move [...]

One of the most interesting statistics that the Premier League season threw up this season was that out of the 6 top goal-scorers in the Premier League, 4 of them were new signings for their teams for the 2012/2013 season. It is unlikely that a Premier League season has ever seen so many forward signings [...]

In our teaser info-graphic published last week (shown below) we illustrated the most error prone teams in the 2012-13 Premier League with Arsenal, Newcastle, Wigan and Liverpool coming to the fore. We’re going to be looking at the percentage of goals conceded via errors, the percentage of total errors that result in goals and the [...]

Ok so Manchester United won the Premier League, comfortably. There’s no denying the other teams just weren’t good enough, or weren’t consistent enough to seriously put up a challenge. But what got me thinking whilst trawling through all the stats, was what would the league table look like if it was sorted by different categories? [...]