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120 years? The brutal truth that Liverpool fans will not want to face…

Liverpool drew their 8th Premier League home game of the season against Spurs last night, and whilst the club is only four points off a champions league place at the moment, history suggests that a top four finish is now practically impossible.Liverp...

STATS: Comparing Giggs, Silva, Nani, Mata, Young, Bale, Nasri and Valencia

David Silva is behind more goals than any other midfielder, having a total of 17 goals and assists, followed by Gareth Bale on 16. Nani and Mata are tied on 13, Valencia and Nasri on 10, Giggs with 9 and Young on 7. However, when you take in to consideration the games they’ve actually played...

STATS: Chelsea vs United

Manchester United head into Sunday’s fixture at Stamford Bridge off the back of three consecutive victories in the Premier League and an opportunity to back on level points with City. Penalties from Javier Hernandez and Dimitar Berbatov either side of half time on transfer deadline day lead Manchester United on their way to 3 points...

Revealed: The 10 Liverpool players who give the ball away the most…

As a team, Liverpool's passing accuracy in the Premier League so far this season is 81%, which is fairly good, but it means means that 19% of passes are being misplaced in every league game. Who are biggest culprits when it comes to giving the ball a...

STATS: How Do We Compare At This Stage To Other Seasons?

It’s interesting to see that, despite all our complaints, that we’ve only bettered our current points total on 21 games on just one occasion in recent years, back in 2006/2007. Even if you didn’t take in to account the fact our injury list has been far worse than our title rivals, Manchester City, to be...

REVEALED: The facts about a big PROBLEM that Liverpool must fix NOW…

Despite spending over over £100m on attacking players over the last year, Liverpool have one of the worst goalscoring records in the league. Kenny Dalglish's team has even been outscored by the likes of Blackburn and Bolton, and only six teams in t...

Anders Lindegaard Leads League in Save Percentage

Despite struggling to overtake David de Gea as Manchester United’s outright first choice goalkeeper, Anders Lindegaard has the highest save percentage in the Premier League through 20 games. The Dane, who caught people’s attention when he kept 5 clean sheets in his first 5 Premier League starts has saved 84.28% of shots he’s faced this...

REVEALED: Undeniable PROOF that Darren Bent IS good enough for LFC…

Two days ago, Liverpool legend Mark Lawrenson claimed on BBC Radio 5 that the deal to bring Darren Bent to Anfield was 'done', and despite several strong denials from Aston Villa, the rumours about the prolific goalscorer just won't go away. Given th...

Injuries – Comparing United With Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Liverpool and Spurs…

Even before the terrible news that Vidic’s season is over, many of us were already questioning whether the football Gods were conspiring against United with an unusually high rate of injuries this season. Indeed, some have gone further, raising the concern that this is not an isolated phenomenon but the continuation of a trend that...

Pepe REINA vs. Bruce GROBBELAAR stat comparison. Who is the best?

The official Liverpool FC website recently ran a poll asking fans to vote on the club's greatest ever goalkeeper. Given the fact many modern fans are seemingly incapable of considering things objectively, or within the proper historical context, it c...

Robin leads Arsenal in turning corners

For the first time this season Arsenal have a positive goal differential. Having played 11 matches for a total of 990 minutes of action, it was the 939th minute of play when Arsenal climbed out of the deficit they inflicted upon themselves with the wild start of the season.

Can we say that Arsenal have turned...

STEVEN GERRARD: Liverpool do fine without him, and here’s the proof…

One of the biggest recurring myths about Liverpool FC is that the team struggles without Steven Gerrard in the side. The media has been notorious in the past for perpetuating this myth, but as I will illustrated with cold hard facts, Liverpool actua...