The new big six? A big eight? Just a big four again? A big two?

By Tony Attwood It is not unusual to find that at the start of the season there is talk in the media about clubs breaking into the top four or top six or top anything else.  Usually this is accompanied by talk about Arsenal dropping out of the top group – it is the media’s …

Penalties: are they fairly distributed among the clubs or is there a bias?

By Tony Attwood As a prelude to this season we have been looking at a few strange issues that arose last season, and have been trying to make sense of the resultant statistics. Following this, the suggestion has been made that one area we’ve not touch on at all is penalties, with a view to …