Team Focus: Have Sunderland Actually Improved Under Poyet?
by Jonathan Wilson
at Jumatatu, Des 9 2013 17:10
The nightmare run is over and Sunderland can perhaps, at last, begin to contemplate a brighter future. After facing Fulham on the opening day of the season – a game they lost after conceding to the only corner Fulham had – their next seven home games were against Arsenal, Liverpool, Manc...
Player Focus: Is Tom Cleverley United Material?
by Jonathan Wilson
at Alhamisi, Des 5 2013 14:08
Team Focus: The Problem With Tottenham's Attack
by Jonathan Wilson
at Jumanne, Nov 26 2013 15:05
Team Focus: The Evolution of Liverpool Ahead of Merseyside Derby
by Jonathan Wilson
at Alhamisi, Nov 21 2013 11:48
Brendan Rodgers, the theory went, was the king of possession, a manager who prioritised having the ball almost above all else. There was even talk at times last season that he cared more about possession than goals, and that his side was great at moving the ball sideways but not so good at putting i...
Team Focus: Manchester City's Troubles on the Road
by Jonathan Wilson
at Jumatano, Nov 13 2013 09:15
Team Focus: Stopping Swansea's Build-Up Play at Source
by Jonathan Wilson
at Jumanne, Nov 5 2013 14:42
Player Focus: Is Frank Lampard Showing Serious Signs of Decline?
by Jonathan Wilson
at Jumatatu, Okt 28 2013 16:15
Player Focus: Jordan Henderson Now Of Huge Value To Liverpool
by Jonathan Wilson
at Jumatatu, Okt 21 2013 17:30
The gulf between the very best players and those dismissed as useless is never as vast as people would like to make out. Gervinho has shown this season that even players who have been derided can, when fully fit, look like world-beaters when confident and playing in a tactical system that suits them...
Player Focus: Cole & Baines' Contrasting Styles Causing Hodgson Headache
by Jonathan Wilson
at Jumanne, Okt 15 2013 10:57
Team Focus: Pochettino's Positive Effect at Southampton
by Jonathan Wilson
at Jumanne, Okt 8 2013 14:25
In their book The Numbers Game, Chris Anderson and David Sally, while evangelising for the use of statistical analysis in football, acknowledge that the use of data in football is in its infancy: if the discipline were medicine, they say, we would still be at the stage of leeches. While statistics h...