For Southampton fans there is only one ‘Le God’. Matthew Le Tissier dazzled on England’s south coast for more than a decade and a half in the famous red and white stripes of the Saints. But what was it like to watch this footballing magician in action week in, week out? As an impressionable teenager, […]

As we continue our look back at the greatest goalscorers in the competition’s history, it’s only fair that we look back on Alan Shearer’s 260 Premier League goals. Some 16 years ago, the last of Alan Shearer’s 260 Premier League goals came, underlining the Tyneside legend’s status at the top of the leaderboard when it […]

Twenty league goals in a season is a solid target for any professional footballer and one that many top players, including Michael Owen, never reached in their careers. So it does beg the question: who has scored the most Premier League goals in a single season? The 30 goal mark has been breached only 11 […]

Everyone knows that Brian Deane scored the first ever Premier League goal, right, but what about the first ever Premier League hat-trick? Well it didn’t take long for Eric Cantona to notch up a trio in the same month of August 1992. But what about the player who has scored the most Premier League hat-tricks? […]

Attacking football and goals are what football fans want to see and, preferably lots of them. And luckily for us, there have been some teams who have entered into a battle for the most goals scored by a team in a Premier League season. In this latest episode of ‘The Reads from the Analyst’, we […]

In the fifth part of our series looking back over the Premier League seasons so far, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp renewed their rivalry, leading to a record-smashing period for the competition as the pair ripped up the script on how football should be played in England. But it was not just the new ‘big two’ […]

In the fourth part of our look back on the Premier League seasons so far, the rise of some noisy neighbours gave Alex Ferguson reason for concern at the end of his tenure at Manchester United, although he would end up having the last laugh before retiring from Old Trafford, clinching a 13th Premier League […]

Join the team from The Analyst for our 2022 US Open Golf Preview, utilising our predictive model FRACAS to provide a simulation for the third major of the year at The Country Club in Brookline. Justin Thomas took home the title from the USPGA Championship last month when he was ranked as the number one […]

In the third part of our series looking at the Premier League seasons so far, we look back to when Chelsea began to emerge as a force as the new millennium took shape, backed by billionaire owner Roman Abramovich and led on the sideline, at least initially, by a certain charismatic Portuguese manager. As the […]

In the second episode of our series looking back over the Premier League seasons so far, we turn to Arsene Wenger’s arrival in England which kickstarted a revolution, turning Arsenal into the main rivals to Manchester United’s dominance with the two sides sharing the title each season between 1997 and 2004. A cosmopolitan flair also began […]