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EvanJ
24 Jul 2009, 10:18 AM
http://www.thebesteleven.com/2009/07/eight-points-or-more-against-englands.html says the last club to have more wins than losses against the big four (excluding the big four against each other) was Blackburn in 2002-2003.
Maybe I'll use this topic to later post a breakdown for recent seasons of how the other 16 clubs have done against the big four and how success against the big four correlates with their position in the final table including what percentage of the club's points that season came against the big four.
revelationx
25 Jul 2009, 07:27 PM
http://www.thebesteleven.com/2009/07/eight-points-or-more-against-englands.html says the last club to have more wins than losses against the big four (excluding the big four against each other) was Blackburn in 2002-2003.
Maybe I'll use this topic to later post a breakdown for recent seasons of how the other 16 clubs have done against the big four and how success against the big four correlates with their position in the final table including what percentage of the club's points that season came against the big four.
That will be interesting. I know that it has been extremely rare over the last few years for a Big 4 team to lose at home to a non-Big 4 club.
Harry Boulton
29 Jul 2009, 11:05 AM
One that immediately springs to mind was West Ham's defeat of us at OT a couple years ago.
Didn't Villa and Hull beat Arsenal at the Emirates last season as well?
It seldom happens although if Arsenals recent purchases, and more im-portantly, sales carry on going, we might see it happen more often.......
midknight
29 Jul 2009, 11:22 AM
Funny, I was just looking at that a couple of days ago. Don't feel like doing the number crunching now, but its amazing to see exactly how bad liverpool's record against Birmingham is, at least since 2001
home losses are even rarer.
you can count them on one hand for each team:
Liverpool: Villa, Birmingham, Man City
Man U: Rovers, Bolton, Fulham, West Ham (x2)
Arsenal: Villa, Rovers, Hull, West Ham (x2)
Chelsea: Villa, Blackburn, Bolton, West Ham