That uninspiring, innovation-lacking second half on Saturday at home to Wolves left a string of Newcastle United fans scratching their heads at the team’s ability to punish ‘lesser’ opposition and finish them off. The further question of, ‘why and how often does this happen’  led NUFC_Stats to take a deeper glance into the current production [...]

One of the best matches of the Premier League season ended 5-2, as Arsenal sensationally came back from two goals down to beat their North London rivals. It was an alarmingly open game, and not the first time this season we’ve had a big match with goals galore. It was not quite a game of [...]

Liverpool won their, record, 8th Carling Cup and did it the hard way once again. Sitting in the new Wembley stadium wasn’t easy for the travelling Kop as their Mighty Reds edged over the finishing line with a nail-biting penalty shoot-out in which they’d missed their first two penalties! Goals from Martin Skrtel and Dirk [...]

The two fixtures that all Spurs fans look out for at the start of the season are both games against Arsenal. These are the games that they want to win more than anything. On Sunday, Tottenham fans headed to the emirates full of optimism. They were on form and had brushed Newcastle aside with ease [...]

I would like to say from the outset of this article the analysis of Randy Lerner is not my own personal view. This is just a collation of views with different aspects and would like to get fellow fans to share their ideas on the comments box at the bottom of the article. On September [...]

WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT! A first half that promised so much against Wolves on Saturday, was shortly followed by a frustrating and lacklustre effort to sit on the lead. Newcastle proved yet again that they just do not have the ability & power to see off teams, even at home. Wolves were there for the taking. [...]

After an absorbing day of football we managed to get our hands on some headline Opta Stats from the final (thanks to the very kind people at Opta) and we thought we’d share them with you here. In a tense game there were a few stand-out performers from Liverpool. Stewart Downing was given man of [...]

Our tactical expert Stephen McCarthy looks at creating an Ultimate Team deriving each position via Opta Stats and allocating points per statistic. An interesting concept! This article is now free to read for all. With the veritable dearth of statistics available from EPL Index I thought it might be fun to put together a Premier [...]

Aston Villa travelled to Wigan Athletic on Saturday in what was a much-needed away win for Aston Villa but the afternoon turned into a frustration fuelled affair at the DW Stadium.  The fixture in recent times has been a good one for Aston Villa; in the last six Villa have won 3 drawn 2, this [...]

In the after match press conference Paul Lambert gave a little smile when he was reminded that two seasons ago, on the same weekend, Norwich beat Oldham away in a league one fixture.  That really does put things into perspective and today fortress Carrow Road was packed out to watch the Canaries play last seasons [...]