tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39826991237871628182011-04-21T19:30:48.704+01:00Exploring the strange world of football statisticsSelf-published tripe and other meanderings as they strike.psychocandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382810372724419982noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3982699123787162818.post-29135765486058344842007-12-01T17:47:00.000Z2007-12-01T17:54:20.847ZArsenal: a discussion of their recordsAlthough Arsenal are currently top of the Premiership, and are nowadays counted as one of the Big 4 teams in English football, they are unusual among their peers in that there club records for most appearances and scorers have been set relatively recently.Arsenal currently hold the record for the longest streak in the top level of the English game, having avoided relegation since the first world psychocandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382810372724419982noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3982699123787162818.post-21308102126301917922007-11-23T21:09:00.000Z2007-11-23T21:16:41.360ZWhy Suker is still better than HealyThe qualification for next years European Championships is over. Aside from the hilarity of England's efforts and Scotland's failure at the final hurdle, Northern Ireland had their best performance since their successful campaign to get to Mexico for the 86 World Cup.This effort was headed by the goalscoring exploits of David Healy. Healy managed two hat-tricks against Spain and Liechtenstein andpsychocandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382810372724419982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3982699123787162818.post-18143737962065329782007-11-15T22:23:00.000Z2007-11-15T22:31:03.476ZWhy we don't care about OPTAIt is a truism to note that there is a lot of football on the telly these days. Watch a live game, and at the end you will get a tally of shots, corners and free kicks and how many fouls have been committed. Recently you are even told how far a substituted player has run on the pitch and the OPTA index will diligently record details of successful passes, tackles and headers for individual psychocandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382810372724419982noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3982699123787162818.post-27747210605170724832007-10-26T14:19:00.000+01:002007-10-26T15:03:15.671+01:00Why the Premier League website cannot be trustedI stumbled across the Premier League's website recently. It has undergone a redesign since the end of the 2006/07 season and appears to be more Safari friendly than before.I noticed something curious in the statistics section though. As we all know football began in 1992, and the Premier League allow you to see various lists of most appearances, goals scored, red cards and all your usual anorak psychocandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16382810372724419982noreply@blogger.com0