Last Season’s Record: Fourteenth place in the Barclays Premier League (12 wins, 10 draws, 16 losses), 46 points. Owen Coyle’s side started the season as the league’s surprise package, threatening for a top seven finish, but once Stuart Holden was injured, their blistering pace slowed, and the club finished comfortably in mid-table. Transfers (In): Darren [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Season Previews’
Season Preview: Bolton Wanderers
Posted in English Premier League, EPL Season Previews, General, tagged Bolton Wanderers, Season Previews on August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Season Preview: Manchester City
Posted in EPL Season Previews, tagged Manchester City, Season Previews on August 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Last Year’s Record: 28 wins, 8 draws, and 9 losses gave them 71 points, which tied Chelsea’s haul for the season; Chelsea’s superior goal difference gave them second place, leaving Manchester City in third and qualifying them for their first berth into the Champions League. City’s also won the FA Cup, beating Stoke City 1-0 [...]
Season Preview: Fulham
Posted in English Premier League, EPL Season Previews, tagged Fulham, Season Previews on August 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Last Season’s Record: Eighth place, Barclays Premier League (11 wins, 16 draws, 11 losses), 49 points. Mark Hughes was in serious danger of being fired as the Cottagers were in a relegation dogfight at Christmas, but Fulham fought their way up the standings to finish at the top of the second tier of Premier League [...]
Season Preview: Swansea City A.F.C.
Posted in English Premier League, EPL Season Previews, tagged Season Previews, Swansea City on August 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last Season’s Record: Third place, nPower Championship (24 wins, 8 draws, 14 losses), 80 points. Won playoffs against Nottingham Forest and Reading to gain promotion to the Barclays Premier League. Transfers (In): Michel Vorm (FC Utrecht, £1.5m); Danny Graham (Watford, £3.5m); Wayne Routledge (Newcastle United, £2m); Leroy Lita (Middlesbrough, £1.75m); Jose Moreira (Benfica, undisclosed); Steve [...]
Season Preview: West Bromwich Albion
Posted in English Premier League, EPL Season Previews, tagged Season Previews, West Bromwich Albion on August 9, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Last Season’s Record: Eleventh place, Barclays Premier League (12 wins, 11 draws, 15 losses), 47 points. Roy Hodgson took over the Baggies during the 2010-11 season after Roberto di Matteo suffered 13 defeats in 18 matches, and he guided the club from near-certain relegation to their highest-ever Premier League finish on the strength of 5 [...]
Season Preview: Wolverhampton
Posted in EPL Season Previews, tagged Season Previews, Wolverhampton on August 9, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Last Season’s Record: Eleven wins, seven draws, and twenty losses gave them 40 points and 17th place; only Birmingham (37), Wigan (40) and Sunderland (45) scored fewer goals than they did. Further, Wolves were the fortunate winners of the last-day lottery that saw them narrowly avoid relegation in spite of the fact that they lost [...]
Season Preview – Wigan Athletic
Posted in EPL Season Previews, Wild Ass Guesses, tagged Season Previews, Suck it Whelan, Wigan on August 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last Year’s Record: 9 wins, 15 draws, 14 losses, 16th place, 42 points and oh so near to the drop. 40 goals scored for second worst in the league, shipping 61. Not good, not good at all. Transfers (in): Ali Al Habsi (Bolton Wanderers, undisclosed), Dave Jones (Wolves, free). Transfers (out): Steven Caldwell (Birmingham, free), [...]
Season Preview: Sunderland AFC
Posted in EPL Season Previews, Wild Ass Guesses, tagged Huge Heads, Season Previews, Sunderland on August 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last Year’s Record: 12 wins, 11 draws, 15 losses, good enough for 47 points and 10th in the league table. Their 40 goals scored on the year was fourth worst in the league, with two of the other three now plying their trade in the Championship (the other of course being Wigan). Transfers (in): Ahmed [...]
Season Preview: Newcastle United
Posted in EPL Season Previews, tagged Newcastle, Season Previews on August 8, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Last Year’s Record: Newcastle ended last year with eleven wins, thirteen draws, and fourteen losses; all told, that’s 46 points and 12th on the table. They were knocked out of the FA Cup by Stevenage in the third round, but fared better in the Carling Cup, knocking out Accrington Stanley and Chelsea before succumbing to [...]
EPL Season Preview – Everton FC
Posted in EPL Season Previews, tagged EPL, Everton, Season Previews on August 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Last year’s record: 16 wins, 13 draws and 9 losses, good for 61 points and 8th place. Transfers in: Magaye Gueye (from Strasbourg, fee undisclosed, name to be made fun of), Joao Silva (from Club Desportivo das Aves, fee undisclosed), Jan Mucha (from Legia Warsaw, free) Transfers out: Lukas Jutkiewicz (to Coventry City, fee undisclosed), [...]
