After 29 league games last season, Leicester City had just 19 points and marked nearly four months at the bottom of the Premier League table. If a new season had started immediately after that and included this season's matches, they would have 66 points from 31 matches. To put it in some perspective, this is a list of EPL teams since 1995/96* with ( Read more... )

In my excitement to evaluate Leicester City's potential achievement, I forgot to mention a couple other aspects of this season's Premier League that has equally confounded expectations and added to the merriment. The first is the almost mirror-like collapse by defending champions Chelsea and the other is the welcome return of unpredictable results ( Read more... )

It's been a wee while since I made an entry about O Joga Bonito, but this season's English Premier League has earned it. I can't remember the last time when we were so far into a season (Gameweek 21 out of 38) and a team like Leicester City were still contending for the title. However unlikely it may still seem, the neutral in me wants them to go ( Read more... )

Let's begin by congratulating Manchester City. It's their first league title since 1968. They deserve credit for their achievement. But to be honest, I don't like them. They won it on the back of £1+ billion worth of investment in players. And just about won. But the important thing is who they beat. Manchester United. And how they beat them. In ( Read more... )

India lost in the cricket to effectively end a miserable summer Down Under, but won in the men's field hockey to qualify for London 2012 ( Read more... )

The Canadian man behind the Scottish independence movement by Nancy Macdonald [Macleans.ca]
Never mind Mitt Romney, don't bet on any party to care about the poor by Gary Younge [The Guardian Cif America]

A death sentence for the death penalty? by Joanna Walters [The Guardian]
The US government's capital punishment prerogative by David A Love [The ( Read more... )

That was an extremely satisfying ending to a match that didn't deserve a winner, but I'll take the three points anytime. Torres is the sort of player you just leave on the field for the entire match. He could be having a stinker, though today wasn't one of them, and still just need a small window of opportunity to separate the two teams. In the ( Read more... )

The Queen has been an Arsenal fan for over 50 years. Prince Charles supports Burnley, while Prince William supports another claret and blue club, but of a Brummie persuasion in the form of Aston Villa, as might interest drunkendeadcat. And Harry has taken his nan's lead and also supports The Gooners. So much for The Royles being out of touch and football being a ( Read more... )

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Fuck.Fuck.Fuck. This is the first time since April 1987 that we have lost four games in a row in all competitions. Our season has gone from bad to worse. Four defeats in nine league games and an European exit imminent. To make matters worse, Gerrard limped off midway through the first-half. Both him and Torres are unlikely to feature against ( Read more... )