Yeah, this bit isn't true either.
There is a far stronger correlation between wages and league performance than there is with transfer expenditure. I'm going to cite Why England Lose by Kuper and Szymanski as my primary evidence for this view.
At April 2015 the wages table showed United...
oyvind leonhardsen used to get properly tanked up in the duke of wellington in wanstead when he was out injured. he was pretty much a regular until the shame of a god awful rendition of 'total eclipse of the heart' at one karaoke night made it too diifcult for him to show his face again. his...
i dunno about that. at the start of every season since it began a league system has a set number of games and a set number of points available. the only real change to any model has involved 3 points for a win being introduced. changes to the relative strengths of specific, individual teams...
so the bookies have used only the past 5 seasons results to work out their spreads at the start of the season?
what is the spread now by the way? is it moving away from your 70 points? we'd need to win our next 3 games to have 35 points from the first 19 games of the season, so you'd expect...
firstly it's a cliche but it's true; football isn't played on paper. in this thread people have made reference to ramos' league cup winning side and i have pointed out that he got an 11th placed finish that season. that's in the record books. were there 10 better teams than us that season 'on...
personally i think you're on extremely dodgy ground bringing up redknapp's 8th place finish after taking over 8 games in with the team bottom of the league. do you feel that league finish reflected badly on him as a manager?
it's impossible to deny that the final part of last season was poor...
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