The Analyst

Join our panel for their Premier League matchday 3 review as they look back on a weekend that saw Arsenal remain the only side in the competition with a 100% record following their victory on the road against Bournemouth. William Saliba took the plaudits, and seemingly the accolades of their fanbase, following a stellar performance. […]

The games are coming thick and fast so it’s time to join our panel for a Premier League Matchday 3 preview on the latest edition of ‘The Data Day Live’. As well as looking forward to a packed schedule of matches, including the thoughts of our supercomputer on the outcomes, Duncan Alexander, Oliver Hopkins and […]

What an exhilarating weekend of football that was! Thankfully our panel on ‘The Data Day Live’ is here to bring you their Premier League Matchday 2 review to make sure you’re across all the main moments from the weekend’s action. As part of our Premier League Matchday 2 review, we take a much closer look […]

It’s time to gather the panel together again for our Premier League matchday 2 preview. Duncan Alexander, Oliver Hopkins and Graham Bell look ahead to the weekend’s action, giving their opinion and predictions on some of the key matches that will take place. As well as our Premier League matchday 2 preview, we also take […]

What a Premier League debut that was for Erling Haaland. The Manchester City striker had come in for criticism following his performance in the Community Shield against Liverpool, but the Norwegian came good at the London Stadium – scoring twice as Pep Guardiola’s side ended up enjoying a comfortable day out against West Ham United. […]

Join the team from The Analyst for a Premier League matchday 1 preview. That’s right, it’s back. The 30th year of the competition gets underway tonight as Crystal Palace welcome an Arsenal side where expectations of success are high. Matt Furniss, Oliver Hopkins and Graham Bell are your guides for our Premier League matchday 1 […]

It could be one of the tightest battles ever as to who will clinch the Premier League Golden Boot. Thankfully, ‘The Data Day Live’ is here to help run through some of the key participants as well as the data behind why they might be successful in the 2022/2023 season. As well as looking at […]

Six years ago Leicester City Premier League win came against seemingly impossible odds, rising to the summit having been in a relegation dog-fight the previous season to claim a maiden top-flight title. Facing odds of 5000/1, the Foxes destroyed the opposition, finishing 10 points ahead of Arsenal, 11 ahead of Tottenham, 15 up on Manchester […]

For Southampton fans there is only one ‘Le God’. Matthew Le Tissier dazzled on England’s south coast for more than a decade and a half in the famous red and white stripes of the Saints. But what was it like to watch this footballing magician in action week in, week out? As an impressionable teenager, […]

As we continue our look back at the greatest goalscorers in the competition’s history, it’s only fair that we look back on Alan Shearer’s 260 Premier League goals. Some 16 years ago, the last of Alan Shearer’s 260 Premier League goals came, underlining the Tyneside legend’s status at the top of the leaderboard when it […]

Twenty league goals in a season is a solid target for any professional footballer and one that many top players, including Michael Owen, never reached in their careers. So it does beg the question: who has scored the most Premier League goals in a single season? The 30 goal mark has been breached only 11 […]

Everyone knows that Brian Deane scored the first ever Premier League goal, right, but what about the first ever Premier League hat-trick? Well it didn’t take long for Eric Cantona to notch up a trio in the same month of August 1992. But what about the player who has scored the most Premier League hat-tricks? […]

Attacking football and goals are what football fans want to see and, preferably lots of them. And luckily for us, there have been some teams who have entered into a battle for the most goals scored by a team in a Premier League season. In this latest episode of ‘The Reads from the Analyst’, we […]

In the fifth part of our series looking back over the Premier League seasons so far, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp renewed their rivalry, leading to a record-smashing period for the competition as the pair ripped up the script on how football should be played in England. But it was not just the new ‘big two’ […]

In the fourth part of our look back on the Premier League seasons so far, the rise of some noisy neighbours gave Alex Ferguson reason for concern at the end of his tenure at Manchester United, although he would end up having the last laugh before retiring from Old Trafford, clinching a 13th Premier League […]

Join the team from The Analyst for our 2022 US Open Golf Preview, utilising our predictive model FRACAS to provide a simulation for the third major of the year at The Country Club in Brookline. Justin Thomas took home the title from the USPGA Championship last month when he was ranked as the number one […]

In the third part of our series looking at the Premier League seasons so far, we look back to when Chelsea began to emerge as a force as the new millennium took shape, backed by billionaire owner Roman Abramovich and led on the sideline, at least initially, by a certain charismatic Portuguese manager. As the […]

In the second episode of our series looking back over the Premier League seasons so far, we turn to Arsene Wenger’s arrival in England which kickstarted a revolution, turning Arsenal into the main rivals to Manchester United’s dominance with the two sides sharing the title each season between 1997 and 2004. A cosmopolitan flair also began […]

In the first of our five part series looking back over the Premier League seasons so far, we turn the clock back to 1992 with the birth of the Premier League and the rising dominance of Manchester United,  as a whole new ball game got underway for the English top flight.  Four of the first five titles […]

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