With this season’s Champions League group stage fast approaching, fans will no doubt be keen to see their team get off to a good start, but just how important is it and what else can you do to ensure a successful campaign? We’ve got a great infographic looking at all the past trends!
With deadline day fast approaching, we’re taking a look at where the value lies in making late Premier League transfers. A tighter summer window ending before the new season begins has put more pressure on top-flight clubs to get their house in order and seek out any bargain buys still available.
As we enter the final stages of the latest series of Love Island, we’ve crunched the numbers from previous years to reveal how the winning couples differ from the rest. We’ve then used the data to score each remaining couple and work out which are likeliest to be crowned the winners in 2019.
With new Chelsea boss Frank Lampard seeking to give more first-team opportunities to the club’s young players – partly out of necessity due to their transfer ban – we’ve looked across the history of the Premier League to reveal which clubs have brought through the most talent.
We’ve put together an interactive stage guide for the Tour de France 2019 which not only gives you all the information you’d expect but also includes an analysis of each stage’s importance to the riders challenging for the yellow jersey. We’ve done this by breaking down the performance of the last 10 yellow jersey winners on each type of stage and at each point in the Tour de France, which we’ve used to rank each of this year’s stages based on their importance.
A club’s kit is perhaps their single most recognisable symbol and therefore one of the most lucrative. We’ve analysed the fortunes of every kit – including boots and gloves – worn in the history of the Premier League to reveal which have been the most successful.
Wimbledon 2019 is set to be Andy Murray’s last while Roger Federer and the Williams sisters are approaching retirement age, meaning the tournament could witness a changing of the guard where the next generation of tennis stars emerge. We’ve broken down the extent to which the game’s recent giants have dominated the game and who might step up to replace them over the coming years.
With the Africa Cup of Nations about to add further excitement to a summer which has already been unusually rich in international football, we’ve used data to reveal the top players and best-represented clubs at the tournament and also celebrate the contribution of African players in the history of the Premier League.
With the Copa America starting this week – adding to a busy summer of international football alongside the Women’s World Cup, Nations League and Africa Cup of Nations – we’ve benchmarked this year’s teams against each other to see who might have the edge in Brazil.
We’ve crunched the numbers from all One Day Internationals since the last World Cup to highlight the players, teams and venues that provide the surest guarantees of entertainment.
We’ve analysed transfer data from the last decade, along with performances in the English top-flight this season, to predict who will be in the market for what this summer.
As the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 gets under way, we’ve cast our eyes over the data behind every past iteration of the competition – all the way back to 1956 – to reveal what it takes to win and what to look out for in this year’s final.
We’ve looked back over the recent history of the game to track what happens to those who miss out on a trophy to see how often they repeat the trick or succeed at the second attempt.
We were curious to find out which managers are the best at changing games using their substitutes and which players are best – and worst – when introduced from the bench, so we’ve analysed the data from the last five seasons for every Premier League and EFL club.