Brunton Park is not a happy hunting ground for Oldham. One win in six visits going back to January 2011, and last year’s 6-0 Boxing Day hammering that saw the…Read More >
Month: September 2019
League Two, Round 11, September 28
League Two sees perhaps the most even match imaginable. Scunthorpe entertain Bradford, with both teams expected to score 1.27 goals. Each team has a 36.3% chance of winning, according to…Read More >
League One, Round 11, Sept 27-28 – Bolton’s resurgence?
Bolton very nearly caused a significant upset, denied in the closing seconds against Sunderland last weekend. Have they turned the corner? The bookmakers don’t think so, giving them just a…Read More >
Championship, R9 (27-29 Sept, 2019) – Derby County: Model doesn’t forecast captain’s leg being smashed in drink-drive incident.
Drama at Derby. It sounds like something out of “Dream Team” (really miss that show – soap opera and football combined, why did Harchester Utd have to end?) Mass drink-driving…Read More >
Premier League, R7 (28-30 Sept) — Man U marginal underdogs at HOME!
Manchester Utd are struggling. Their “kids” and rotation players have in the past two weeks struggled to defeat third tier Rochdale in the League Cup and Kazakh champions Astana in…Read More >
Spotlight on …. (EPL: 20-22 September)
Southampton v Bournemouth: Chelsea v Liverpool: Manchester City v Watford: West Ham v Manchester Utd:
Championship, R8 (21-22 Sept, 2019) – Reading marginal favourites against Blackburn (1.4 vs 1.2 expected goals)
The 1st Reading Football Economics Workshop is currently taking place. After the talks have finished, several participants are attending this weekend’s Championship fixture between Reading and Blackburn. According to RED,…Read More >
Premier League, R6 (20-22 Sept) — City given 78% chance of bouncing back with a win
Man City were humbled in East Anglia last weekend. The long-term injury to Laporte appears to have left them threadbare at the back. But at home Manchester City are still…Read More >
Spotlight on… Oldham Athletic
Oldham have another manager. They face Morecambe in the Football League archetypal basement battle – 21st vs 22nd, one win each so far, 7 points vs 6 points. A match…Read More >
League Two, Round 10 (Sept 21)
League Two forecasts for the coming weekend…