Football stats

[Winston Biscuit]

I have bored on about it before, but something I found interesting to learn is that Portuguese football journalists will explain that there is no 'big 3' over there, just a 'big 2 + Sporting', or I have heard it called 'the Big 2.5'.

Sporting are just nowhere near the size of the other 2, or have the budget to compete. Last seasons title win was only their 4th in more than 40 years.

Sporting winning the league is really considered something of a huge achievement over there as they are just way behind the other 2 in terms of resources.

I personally have a soft spot for Benfica and quite like to see them do well. I used to work with a bloke who would proudly tell me how his grandad was something to do with helping create Benfica, and he himself helped run some Benfica supporters group over here and would organise meet ups for big games in pubs in London. Showed me pics before of some pub they went to for a big game and the whole place was decorated in Benfica/Portugal stuff. even organised some Portuguese food there. Did genuinely look great

[Pepe the Horseman]

Titles won, and % of titles won in that country overall:

Benfica 38 - 42.4%
Real Madrid 36 - 38.7%
Ajax 29 - 33%
Juventus 36 - 30%
Bayern 33 - 29.5%
Man Utd 20 - 15.9%
Liverpool 20 - 15.9%

What about turkey?

[Winston Biscuit]

Titles won, and % of titles won in that country overall:

Benfica 38 - 42.4%
Real Madrid 36 - 38.7%
Ajax 29 - 33%
Juventus 36 - 30%
Bayern 33 - 29.5%
Man Utd 20 - 15.9%
Liverpool 20 - 15.9%

What about turkey?

Fenerbahce 28 - 29.5%

[Dirk Gently]

Greece :

Olympiacos – 48 (53.93%)
Panathinaikos – 20 (22.47%)
AEK Athens – 13 (14.6%)
PAOK – 4 (4.49%)
Aris – 3 (3.37%)
AEL – 1 (1.12%)

[Winston Biscuit]

I forgot to include France which is PSG 13 - 10.8%

These numbers were from Jonathan Wilson's e_mail thing which I am subscribed to. He was making the point that English football has not embraced the 'superclub' in the way many other nations have.

France having an impressively low number, but of course their embracing of a superclub has very much happened, but only in the last few years

[bakerlou]

I forgot to include France which is PSG 13 - 10.8%

These numbers were from Jonathan Wilson's e_mail thing which I am subscribed to. He was making the point that English football has not embraced the 'superclub' in the way many other nations have.

France having an impressively low number, but of course their embracing of a superclub has very much happened, but only in the last few years

I'd argue that Olympique de Marseille had all the hallmarkings of being a superclub around 35 years ago under Bernard Tapie but it all rather pleasingly fell apart.

[Brogue]

If Watford’s next manager has the letter ‘k’ in his name then they will have a full pangram which has never happened before In English football.

[Sutekh]

7 years and 12 managers

Joke club.

[parky]

It's 21 managers including caretakers since Troy Deeney scored against Leicester 13 years ago...

[Sutekh]

It's 21 managers including caretakers since Troy Deeney scored against Leicester 13 years ago...

[Sutekh]

Since Pozzo took over as Watford owner in June 2013 -

• FL Gianfranco Zola left December 2013 - 44% win ratio
  FL Giuseppe Sannino left August 2014 - 41.67% win ratio
  FL Óscar García Junyent left September 2014 - 25% win ratio
  FL Billy McKinlay left October - 2014 - 50% win ratio
  FL Slaviša Jokanović left June 2015 - 58.33 win ratio
  PL Quique Sánchez Flores left May 2016 - 36.36% win ratio
  PL Walter Mazzarri left May 2017 - 29.27% win ratio
  PL Marco Silva left January 2018 - 30.77% win ratio
  PL Javi Garcia left September 2019 - 37.88% win ratio
  PL Quique Sánchez Flores left December 2019 - 16.67% win ratio
  PL Hayden Mullins caretaker December 2019 - 0% win ratio
  PL Nigel Pearson left July 2020 - 31.82% win ratio
  FL Hayden Mullins caretaker July 2020 - 0% win ratio
  FL Vladimir Ivić left December 2020 - 40.91% win ratio
  FL/PL Xisco Muñoz left October 2021 - 58.33% win ratio
  PL Claudio Ranieri left January 2022 - 14.29% win ratio
  PL Roy Hodgson left May 2022 - 11.10% win ratio
  FL Rob Edwards left September 2022 - 27.27% win ratio
  FL Slaven Bilić left March 2023 - 40.01% win ratio
  FL Chris Wilder left May 2023 - 27.27% win ratio
  FL Valérien Ismaël left March 2024 - 27.08% win ratio
  FL Tom Cleverley left May 2025 - 42.86% win ratio

[Pepe the Horseman]

Jonny Evans' departure means that next season will be the first at Manchester United since 1973-74 without a player who played for the club under Alex Ferguson.

[Sutekh]

Jonny Evans' departure means that next season will be the first at Manchester United since 1973-74 without a player who played for the club under Alex Ferguson.

Ferguson didn’t join Man Utd until 1985.

[Winston Biscuit]

This season Chelsea have played the youngest average team age since the start of the PL

[Pepe the Horseman]

Jonny Evans' departure means that next season will be the first at Manchester United since 1973-74 without a player who played for the club under Alex Ferguson.

Ferguson didn’t join Man Utd until 1985.

Yeh, and there were players from 73-74 onwards who were still there when he joined.

[Franchise FC]

Jonny Evans' departure means that next season will be the first at Manchester United since 1973-74 without a player who played for the club under Alex Ferguson.

Ferguson didn’t join Man Utd until 1985.

Yeh, and there were players from 73-74 onwards who were still there when he joined.

Well, one as far as I can see … Arthur Albiston

[Winston Biscuit]

First time in 101 years Arsenal have not had a player score at least 10 goals in a league season

[Sanguine]

It's been noted elsewhere, but Walsall were 15 points clear inside the automatic promotion spots on January 18th. Yesterday's play-off final defeat to AFC Wimbledon (who were that 4th placed team at the time) seals a remarkable loss of form in the second half of the season.

They were so comfortably inside the automatic spots that it was only Bradford's injury time goal on the last day that pushed them out, despite winning just 1 of their last 14 league games.

[Brogue]

Ruben Amorim has a worse Premier League points per game ratio than Paul Jewell, who managed 24 winless games for Derby in 2007/08.
Amorim's 26 Premier League games have been as bad as the season Derby recorded the lowest points tally (11) in PL history.

[Winston Biscuit]

Over 4 world cups and 12 years of football, between 1950 - 1962, England won just 3 matches