Tag: English Premier League

  • Javier Hernandez, the Most Efficient Scorer in the Premier League

    Javier Hernandez, the Most Efficient Scorer in the Premier League

    What makes the best striker in the Premier League? The amount of goals he scores, or the rate in which he scores them in? Whatever the calculation and method is, Manchester United can feel quite secure. They have both Robin van Persie, the league’s top scorer, and Javier Hernandez, with the best goal-per-minute ration in the league.

  • Roberto Mancini Uses Robin van Persie as a Subtle Excuse

    Roberto Mancini Uses Robin van Persie as a Subtle Excuse

    When you’re the manager of the richest team in England, that has spent quite lavishly yet unwisely in yet another summer transfer window, and you’re already out of the Champions League and 7 points behind in the title race, you gotta make excuses to make it look like it’s not your fault. By talking about Robin van Persie as the difference between City and Manchester United, Roberto Mancini is doing just that.

  • Biggest Wins in Premier League History

    Biggest Wins in Premier League History

    While 8-0 is an impressive result, it’s not something that we haven’t seen before in the Premier League. Not even from Chelsea, who do come up with these big wins in recent years, and have also thrashed Aston Villa in a similar scoreline once or twice.

  • Premier League – Christmas & New Year’s Matches

    Premier League – Christmas & New Year’s Matches

    Among the Holiday shopping and cheers, the most wonderful thing about Christmas and New Year’s is the English Premier League carrying on like nothing’s going on, with 39 matches in 11 days, as Manchester United try to keep Manchester City and Chelsea off their back. Biggest matches of the upcoming two weeks? Chelsea visiting Everton in Goodison Park on December 30.

  • Arsenal FC – A Year That Says Arsene Wenger Should Go

    Arsenal FC – A Year That Says Arsene Wenger Should Go

    Despite a successful stint of six years with three league titles and later a Champions League final appearance, Arsene Wenger has failed to turn Arsenal into a prominent European club. All the impressive youngsters he has helped developed, all the profit lines the owners love to see, can’t change the fact that Arsenal are on a steep decline for the past six-seven years.

  • Robin van Persie With the Perfect Free Kick Winner (Manchester City vs Manchester United)

    Robin van Persie With the Perfect Free Kick Winner (Manchester City vs Manchester United)

    Joe Hart took one step too many to his left; Samir Nasri sent his leg forward just a tad too much. Robin van Persie was brought in the beginning of the season to put Manchester United back on top of the Premier League and over Manchester City. In the 90th minute, with a free kick goal against the flow of the final moments he did just that.

  • Premier League – Manchester City vs Manchester United Predictions

    Premier League – Manchester City vs Manchester United Predictions

    In the past few years, for probably the first time ever, the Manchester derby has turned into the best rivalry in the Premier League. Manchester United have always been involved in that sort of thing, but this is relativity new territory for City, who are looking to put their Champions League woes with some more Premier League glory.

  • Premier League – How Much is a Goal Worth

    Premier League – How Much is a Goal Worth

    With transfer fees going up and up, especially for striker who later on don’t go on to justify the price that was paid for them or the wages they receive, the cost of an actual goal scores by most of them is on a constant rise. Yes, each Fernando Torres or Andy Carroll goal is sometimes more precious than gold.

  • Arsenal FC – The Delusions of Arsene Wenger

    Arsenal FC – The Delusions of Arsene Wenger

    When Arsenal take the pitch this evening in the final Champions League group stage match, the only thing on the line will be the position from which they qualify. Arsene Wenger has 90 minutes to think about his excuses for next weekend, with another Premier League disaster result on the horizon.

  • Chelsea FC – The Managers Circus of Roman Abramovich

    Chelsea FC – The Managers Circus of Roman Abramovich

    Once every few years, Roman Abramovich loves to throw his team into a tailspin. A few matches without really getting the required results were enough to get Roberto Di Matteo fired. Rafa Benitez, barely two weeks on his new job, is already at the risk of losing the position of Chelsea manager.