Month: January 2018

  • Division 5 Season 7  stats and facts.  Two teams should dominate but will they ? At least for now my own Celta Vigo team sit top of the pile.  With a midfield worthy of D2 at least it is no…

  • Division 4 in many ways better than Division 3. With one exceptional club in AS Monaco who could succeed in D1 the average D4 side is as good as the average D3 side. At least statistically speaking D4 has a…

  • Division 3 stats and facts, are you the best or worst at being average? PSV and Lazio head and shoulders above the rest. Good news for those in division 3 , there are probably 10 or more clubs down to…

  • A quick and dirty round-up of all last night’s Youth Cup action. Group A Genoa CFC 1 – 3 Bayern Manchester United 2 – 1 Barcelona SL Benfica 0 – 2 Juventus A dominant performance from reigning champions Bayern in…

  • Is there an impossible gap between D2 and D1. The stats suggest yes. Can a top manager prove otherwise. To not get instantly relegated the ETOT, the experimental ratings total in D1 is around 224.5 As you can see from…

  • Shock as new prediction formula predicts Barcelona will win the league . Will Chelsea , Bayern or Juve have enough to push them out the way? First of all the usual warning. None of the statistics are an opinion based,…

  •  what really happened that fateful day in Turin The game had been hyped up. Turin Mayor & Manager Gino Kinnear had been claiming the Spoon Army would not be allowed into the Stadio Olympico by the security forces, even going…

  • After a season that can at best be described as disappointing, Benfica boss Parfitt made a few changes to his squad ahead of the current campaign. Out went old pro’s like Lloris, Falcao and Reus, and in came the likes…

  • Les Verts hit the ground running St. Etienne claimed their first victory of the season last night, if quite fortuitously, with an impressive 3-1 home win over Ajax at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, and manager Ted Powell, as well as the whole…

  • A busy night in the opening round of fixtures in this season’s new look Youth Cup saw 27 matches produce 24 wins, 3 draws, 65 (legitimate) goals, almost as many yellow cards (54), and 7 reds. Biggest winners were Aston…