**** OFFICIAL Premiership 2006-07 season Thread!*****

[The_Bends]

Not that I don't love Random stats, but any set of statistics that has Robbie Keane in the bottom five offensive players when he's clearly trying to single handedly pull Spurs out of oblivion is just pointless.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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Not that I don't love Random stats, but any set of statistics that has Robbie Keane in the bottom five offensive players when he's clearly trying to single handedly pull Spurs out of oblivion is just just pointless.

[/ QUOTE ]Dude, he just scored this weekend for his first EPL goal of the season, and it was a PK. The Chelsea game was a fluke, Spurs have been garbage this season.

[kolotoure]

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Not that I don't love Random stats, but any set of statistics that has Robbie Keane in the bottom five offensive players when he's clearly trying to single handedly pull Spurs out of oblivion is just pointless.

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Yes because 1 goal after 12 games is a great strike rate

[PITTM]

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Not that I don't love Random stats, but any set of statistics that has Robbie Keane in the bottom five offensive players when he's clearly trying to single handedly pull Spurs out of oblivion is just pointless.

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single-handedly as in he is the 4th or 5th best starter on the team?

rj

[Newtown]

Lol at the North London cat fight.

[gusmahler]

I was just looking through a kid's book about sports rivalries and it was detailing some of the biggest rivalries in sports. According to the book, the biggest rivalry is Red Sox/Yankees, scoring 100 on the 100 point scale. A few other rivalries score in the upper 90s, including Michigan/OSU and Duke/UNC.

Which are the biggest EPL rivalries? How would you compare those rivalries to Yankees/Red Sox and the like?

(I remember reading that Old Trafford used to hang a banner with the number 29 on it, the number of years since Man City won the top flight. Which, I guess is similar to the "1918" chants that Yankees fans used to do.)

[KDawg]

i've been to some of the bigger rivalries in the US having been to a bears/packers game, a yankees/sox game at yankee stadium, and Michigan/OSU at the big house, I would say that some of the England rivalries destroy american ones. I was at a nothing game between chelsea and southampton almost 5 years ago, and teh atmosphere there was really close to the eagles/giants game I was at. I would imagine that a spurs/aresenal, manU/liverp**l, villa/birmingham, or sunderland/newcastle game would be even better then a red sox yankees game. That doesn't even begin to get into some of the more contentious ones between teams in the lower leagues like cardiff/swansea or derby/forrest

[kolotoure]

You have to remember how fan violence there has been in the past which as far as I know never happened in American sports

[gusmahler]

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You have to remember how fan violence there has been in the past which as far as I know never happened in American sports

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Except in Oakland, of course. I'd never been to an Oakland Raiders game and I asked a friend if they are as bad as the rumors suggest. He said that he saw 1 guy wearing an opposing jersey go into a Porta-Potty. The Raiders fans knocked the porta potty down. He also saw someone pull a knife.

(Of course, even that probably pales in comparison to the hoolaganism of the past. And not even the distant past. Just last year, weren't Italian fans were throwing flares onto the field, resulting in a forfeit?

But my question was about "normal" rivalry, not the hoolagins, who, if I understand correctly, aren't as prevalent as before).

[ThaSaltCracka]

Its very rare to see two teams from the same city, in the same league. Baseball is really the only sport(some football) that has more than one team in the same city. Bay Area, LA, NY, Chicago, of course you have multiple teams from the same state. But its not like England, where in a city like London there is multiple teams seperated by only a few miles. That makes a big difference. Also, most of the rivalries in US sports are only rivalries because the media makes them ones. Fans hate teams, but most fans just care about their team winning.