It has generally been accepted for a good few weeks / months that the title race is a two horse race, which will be determined by whoever blinks first between Liverpool and Manchester City. However below those two standout teams of the season, another exciting race is starting to bubble away. A mere matter of […]
Two wins out of two, six points out of six, ten goals for and just one against and a four point lead in the group already, so England are finding the going tough in their Euro 2020 qualification group then! As I pondered on this page last week (https://football-nerd.org/2019/03/22/football-nerd-weekly-ramblings-international-break-boredom-var-creates-an-un-level-playing-field-and-orient-one-step-away-from-wembley/), one wonders what strange logic anyone […]
So another weekend passes and another win each for Manchester City and Liverpool and still no decisive move in the race for the Premier League title. First up on Saturday evening Manchester City made light work of Watford thanks to a thirteen minute hat-trick from Raheem Sterling. On Sunday Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool responded to the […]
For the first time since Opta has been gathering the data a team failed to record a single shot on or off target in a Premier League match. The fact that it was Eddie Howe’s usually progressive Bournemouth side made it even more puzzling. Howe has in the past, on several occasions, stated that he […]
As much as everyone suspected the defeat at St James Park was a temporary blip, a one-off, a lapse in focus; no one truthfully saw what happened next coming. As good as Manchester City were in making light work of Arsenal last week, the shredding to pieces of Chelsea last Sunday was simply extraordinary. To […]
For those of us of a Gooner persuasion it was never in doubt that Manchester City would bounce back after their dodgy showing and result away at Newcastle. For our team we simply hoped that it wouldn’t be another one of those embarrassing tonkings away at purported rivals that have been all too common over […]
Start of the season thoughts- https://football-nerd.org/2018/08/10/football-nerd-weekly-ramblings-the-premier-league-is-back-will-anyone-be-able-to-stop-manchester-city/ As October reached its end, with each of the Premier League teams having now played a quarter of their matches, it feels like an appropriate time to take stock of how things are shaping up. Going into the season considered opinion suggested that the push for the title […]
