PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 24 Only one Premier League match this week but there was enough incident in those 98+ minutes to satiate the appetite of the hungriest football fan. Fittingly for the last Merseyside derby at Goodison Park, James Tarkowski’s late equaliser ensured that Everton and Liverpool had won the same number ofContinue reading “Premier League Match Week 24/ Episode 44 ‘It Started With a Kick’”
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Euros Nuggets Group matches ‘It Started With a Kick’ episode 12 – John Bennett
EUROS NUGGETS II Group matches The Group of Dearth England’s group turned out to be about as much fun as having root canal without an anaesthetic. One win, five draws, seven goals was the grim total. There have only been three goalless draws in 36 matches so far and group C provided two of them. Continue reading “Euros Nuggets Group matches ‘It Started With a Kick’ episode 12 – John Bennett”
2023-24 Premier League Nuggets / ‘It Started With a Kick’
26 April MW 34 TEENAGE KICKS AS SHEFFIELD UNITED JOIN THE 92 CLUB On Wednesday night Sheffield United made the bold move of appointing a 19-year-old Academy graduate as captain against Manchester United. It was Oliver Arblaster’s seventh Premier League start and he became the youngest player to lead a side. That’s where the goodContinue reading “2023-24 Premier League Nuggets / ‘It Started With a Kick’”
Premier League Nuggets 2023/24
8 March MW 27 SHEFFIELD ‘SHELLACKING’ UNITED Another Matchweek, another home humiliation at Bramall Lane for Sheffield United. This time a 6-0 hammering courtesy of a rampant Arsenal who set a record for successive away victories, Monday night’s mauling following swiftly on the heels of another 6-0 win at West Ham and a mere 5-0Continue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2023/24”
Premier League Nuggets 2023/24
23 February MW 25 GOALS KEEP COMING The goals show no sign of letting up, in fact with 807 scored in 250 matches, the rate has reached a giddy 3.23 per match. If that rate is maintained then the seasons’ total there will be almost 150 more goals scored than the record high of lastContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2023/24”
The 2022 Play-Offs: Return of crowds, Records and Redemption
If any evidence of the popularity of the Football League Play-Offs was needed, it was provided this week by the Sunderland Sheffield Wednesday tie. On Friday night the record for the highest attendance of a semi-final was broken by over 4,000 as 44,724 gathered at the Stadium of Light for the first leg. An impressiveContinue reading “The 2022 Play-Offs: Return of crowds, Records and Redemption”
Goals galore – No case for the defence
Whilst it is always a mistake to use early season form as a barometer of what is going to unfold during the rest of the season – particularly in current extraordinary circumstances – there is something afoot in the Premier League. With Match Week 4 rounded off by Liverpool’s shellacking at Villa Park, the mostContinue reading “Goals galore – No case for the defence”
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