You can never rule them out of finishing in the top 4 or very close to it. It always seems like they get more decisions going their way than any other team in the prem.
Think there was a stat this weekend that they've been given and scored more penalties in 'Prem history' than any other team.
I bet you could expand that to 'top flight history' too.
They have had 135 penalties and the nearest team has 103 i.e 32 more about 22%. That would mean they are in the penalty area roughly 22% more than their nearest and possibly 30 - 50% more than most other teams. Which in turn would mean they have had a helluva lot more possession than opponents in the Premier League era.
Before they all lived in a Robbie Fowler House - bought with money they contributed towards. Ironic (if it were true).I remember kids singing it when I was little when Yellow Submarine was all the rage...."We all live in a red and white kop.....a red and white etc". I even realised at that early age that they were patently gobsh.....er, lacking imagination.
which is astounding from a team that hasnt even won it.They have had 135 penalties and the nearest team has 103 i.e 32 more about 22%. That would mean they are in the penalty area roughly 22% more than their nearest and possibly 30 - 50% more than most other teams. Which in turn would mean they have had a helluva lot more possession than opponents in the Premier League era.
So, fellow Blues, anyone care to enlighten me and everyone else, as to the origin of the term Red and WHITE Kop? I mean surely the powers that be over there, the ones who started this glorious example of Web Democracy, aren't all old enough to remember that lot wearing white shorts (was it 1964?)
Or is there some other, more sinister, meaning?
I see the chite have topped another league - most money wasted on payments to agents! They will be celebrating this trophy with gusto tonight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34968159
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34968159
They have had 135 penalties and the nearest team has 103 i.e 32 more about 22%. That would mean they are in the penalty area roughly 22% more than their nearest and possibly 30 - 50% more than most other teams. Which in turn would mean they have had a helluva lot more possession than opponents in the Premier League era.
how are we below that shower?
how are we below that shower?