PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 36 PLUS CA CHANGE With Tottenham and Manchester United continuing their dismal form by both losing at home they have now racked up 37 defeats between them this season. Indeed Spurs’ 20 losses is the same as Fulham a few years ago, who were relegated and there are still twoContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets MatchWeek 36/ ‘It Started With a Kick’ Episodes 56 and 57”
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It Started With a Kick Episodes 51, 52 and 53
Having just returned from three weeks in Argentina (of which more soon) there has been a slight break from the normal routine but rest assured we’ll be back in full flow as of next week. Suffice to say the Premier League is pretty much done and dusted at both ends of the table with championsContinue reading “It Started With a Kick Episodes 51, 52 and 53”
Premier League Match Week 24/ Episode 44 ‘It Started With a Kick’
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’”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MatchWeek 12 Episode 34 of ‘It Started With a Kick’
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 12 Arsenal’s 3-0 win over Forest got them back on track after a run of four matches without a victory and unusually this was the only home victory over the weekend. Of those ten matches, six were away wins, which is the highest this season and in all the 110Continue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MatchWeek 12 Episode 34 of ‘It Started With a Kick’”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MatchWeek 4 Episode 24 of ‘It Started With a Kick’ – Adrian Clarke
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 4 YELLOW FEVER Chelsea’s late victory at Bournemouth on Saturday night was not the most exciting match but it did set a Premier League record for yellow cards, racking up fourteen in total, including five in the space of a frenetic six first half minutes. The previous record was twelve,Continue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MatchWeek 4 Episode 24 of ‘It Started With a Kick’ – Adrian Clarke”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MW3 and It Started With a Kick episode 22 – Jim Beglin
PREMIER LEAGUE NUGGETS – MatchWeek 3 RED CARDS Arsenal fans were left fuming by the dismissal of Declan Rice in the Brighton game. While there is some sympathy for Rice, for whom this was his first sending-off in the 245 appearances of his professional career. The second yellow card for nudging the ball away wasContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MW3 and It Started With a Kick episode 22 – Jim Beglin”
Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MW1 and ‘It Started With a Kick’ episode 20
OPENER And so we are underway for the 33rd Premier League season and Joshua Zirkzee became the first player whose name begins with a Z to score the opening goal of the season. As you are asking , the most common letter for the the very first goal of the season is C with CarlContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2024/25 MW1 and ‘It Started With a Kick’ episode 20”
Premier League Nuggets 2023/24 and Episode 4 of ‘It Started With a Kick’
3 May MW 35 TROUBLED TRIO From the early knockings of this season the three promoted clubs have had the Sword of Damocles hovering precariously over their heads. With three matches remaining the trio occupy the relegation places and if it wasn’t for Forest’s point deduction, they would be cast adrift. Although Luton have shownContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2023/24 and Episode 4 of ‘It Started With a Kick’”
Premier League Nuggets 2023/24
5 April Match Weeks 30/31 GOALLESS GAMES In this season of goals galore, two goalless matches in the space of a week feels like a drought. Although Match Week 30 rattled along at the overall rate of 3.2 goals per game, the last match ended with the stalemate at The Etihad – the first timeContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2023/24”
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”
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