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Tyler's Starting Stat - Chelsea rule the Reebok

I was at the Reebok Stadium on Monday to see Chelsea record an incredible eighth consecutive victory there. In that period they have scored 18 and conceded none. They haven't dropped any points at the Reebok since a 1-1 draw on November 23, 2002 - and that was the last time that Bolton have scored a goal against Chelsea on their home ground. The scorer that day was Henrik Pedersen and Bolton haven't scored in 747 minutes (that's 12hours, 27minutes) in home games against Chelsea since then. Bolton's only home Premier League win against Chelsea remains the first game they ever won in the Premier League at the Reebok in October 1997, Dean Holdsworth scoring the only goal in a 1-0 victory. Overall, Bolton have gone 15 Premier League games without a win against Chelsea, the last success was a 2-1 win at Stamford Bridge on December 13, 2003. Of those 15, Chelsea have now won the last six. Finally, Ramires scored his first goal in his 25th game for Chelsea (all competitions), while Didier Drogba has moved onto 93 goals in 188 Premier League games.

THE FULL ENGLISH
Hi Martin, after the Blackburn v WBA game a lot was made of the different nationalities on show, but when was the last time in the top flight somebody fielded a completely English team? Also, which teams this season have fielded the most English players? Thanks! Peter Woodward MARTIN SAYS: Yes, you're correct to say that the Blackburn game featured a record for the number of different nationalities on show with players from 22 different countries appearing. The nations in question were: England, Spain, France, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Croatia, Paraguay, Grenada, Scotland, Wales, USA, Chile, Romania, Slovakia, Northern Ireland, DR Congo, Republic of Congo, Austria, Nigeria, Cameroon and Czech Republic. The last time an all-English side was fielded in the Premier League was December 27 1999 when Aston Villa fielded 11 English starters against Coventry City - and the three substitutes were all English too. Thanks to Opta for this info: Aston Villa v Coventry, 27/02/1999: Michael Oakes, Alan Wright, Gareth Southgate, Steve Watson, Ricardo Scimeca, Ian Taylor, Paul Merson, Simon Grayson, Lee Hendrie, Dion Dublin, Julian Joachim. SUBS: Gareth Barry, Stan Collymore, Mark Draper Many of you might remember that Middlesbrough fielded an 'all-English' team against Fulham on the last day of the 2005/06 season. However, that side included James Morrison, who has since been capped for Scotland - therefore taking that fixture out of consideration. To answer your final question, Opta have provided a list of how many English players each side has fielded this season. Newcastle lead the way with 15 Englishmen (Opta have included Shola Ameobi even though he has been called up by Nigeria), while Arsenal have used the fewest - just four English players have appeared in the Premier League for them this season. Arsenal: 4 (Emmanuel-Thomas, Gibbs, Walcott, Wilshere)
Aston Villa: 13 (Agbonlahor, Albrighton, A.Young, Bent, Delfouneso, Delph, Downing, Heskey, Hogg, Reo-Coker, Walker, Warnock, L.Young)
Birmingham: 12 (Bentley, Bowyer, Dann, Derbyshire, Foster, Gardner, Jerome, Murphy, Mutch, Phillips, Ridgewell, Johnson)
Blackburn: 6 (Bunn, Dunn, Jones, Lowe, Morris, Robinson)
Blackpool: 10 (Baptiste, Basham, Campbell, Evatt, Harewood, Ormerod, Phillips, Southern, Taylor-Fletcher, Varney)
Bolton: 8 (Blake, Cahill, K. Davies, M. Davies, Knight, Muamba, Robinson, Taylor)
Chelsea: 5 (Cole, Lampard, McEachran, Sturridge, Terry)
Everton: 8 (Baines, Beckford, Hibbert, Jagielka, Neville, Osman, Rodwell, Vaughan)
Fulham: 7 (Briggs, Johnson, Greening, Murphy, Sidwell, Stockdale, Zamora)
Liverpool: 8 (Carragher, Cole, Gerrard, Johnson, Kelly, Konchesky, Shelvey, Spearing)
Man City: 7 (Barry, Johnson, Hart, Lescott, Milner, Richards, Wright-Phillips)
Man Utd: 9 (Brown, Carrick, Ferdinand, Hargreaves, Neville, Owen, Rooney, Scholes, Smalling)
Newcastle: 15 (Ameobi*, Barton, Campbell, Carroll, Gosling, Guthrie, Harper, Nolan, Perch, Ranger, Taylor, Simpson, Smith, Taylor, Williamson)
Stoke: 8 (Etherington, Higginbotham, Pennant, Pugh, Shawcross, Whitehead, Wilkinson)
Sunderland: 11 (Bramble, Campbell, Cattermole, Colback, Cook, Ferdinand, Henderson, Onouha, Richardson, Turner, Welbeck)
Tottenham: 8 (Bentley, Crouch, Dawson, Defoe, Huddlestone, Jenas, King, Lennon)
West Brom: 6 (Barnes, Carson, Cox, Hurst, Shorey, Thomas)
West Ham: 12 (Bridge, Cole, Dyer, Green, Hines, Noble, Nouble, Parker, Sears, Stanislas, Tomkins, Upson)
Wigan: 6 (Cleverley, Kirkland, Mcmanaman, Moses*, Pollitt, Watson)
Wolves: 8 (Craddock, Ebanks-Blake, Hammill, Henry, Jarvis, Jones, Mancienne, Stearman) * Called up by Nigeria for forthcoming friendly

TREBLE TREBLES
Hi Martin. With Berbatov's third hat-trick of the season, I want to ask what is the highest number of hat-tricks scored by an individual in a Premier League season. Also I noticed that there has been 10 hat tricks scored in the season so far, then what is the highest number of hat tricks scored in a season? RLP MARTIN SAYS: Dimitar Berbatov is the third man to score three hat-tricks in a season, having netted trebles against Liverpool, Blackburn and now Birmingham. He now joins an elite club alongside Ruud van Nistlerooy and Alan Shearer. Van Nistelrooy scored three hat-tricks in the 2002/03 season at home to Newcastle, Fulham and Charlton, while Alan Shearer has done it twice during his career at Blackburn. The first occasion was 1994/95 when he scored them against QPR, West Ham and Ipswich. However, in 1995/96 he scored an incredible five hat-tricks in one season, at home to Coventry, Nottingham Forest, West Ham, and Bolton and away at Tottenham. So Berbatov needs two more hat-tricks to match that record. To answer your second question, here is a list of how many hat-tricks has been scored in each Premier League season. The record is 19 from 1993/94, but that was a 42-game season. In a 38-game season, the record is 16. The lowest total is the three scored by Wayne Rooney, Didier Drogba and Peter Crouch in 2006/07. 1992/93*: 14
1993/94*: 19
1994/95*: 15
1995/96: 16
1996/97: 12
1997/98: 16
1998/99: 12
1999/00: 13
2000/01: 14
2001/02: 7
2002/03: 13
2003/04: 10
2004/05: 8
2005/06: 7
2006/07: 3
2007/08: 14
2008/09: 6
2009/10: 14
2010/11: 10 (so far) * 42-game season

DIMI DO WELL?
Dear Martin. People are raving about Dimitar Berbatov, but I have a theory he doesn't do it against the big teams. I don't remember him scoring a goal against Man United when he was at Tottenham and apart from his hat-trick against Liverpool he hasn't done much in the big games for us. Could you show us his goalscoring record against the big teams (ie Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham and Man Utd for when he was at Tottenham), compared to the other teams. Thanks, Dev (Manchester United fan) MARTIN SAYS: I have looked at Dimitar Berbatov's record against the teams you mention and he has netted at least once against each of them in the Premier League. v Arsenal: 1 goal in 7 games
v Chelsea: 2 goals in 7 games
v Liverpool: 3 goals in 7 games
v Man Utd: 1 goal in 3 games
v Tottenham: 1 goal in 6 games So overall he has scored, 8 goals in 30 games against the five clubs you mention, which is an average of 0.27 goals per game. Overall, he has now faced 28 teams in the Premier League and excluding the five mentioned above he has managed 57 goals in his 123 appearances against the other teams. That's a strike rate of 0.46 goals per game, which is much higher than against the so-called "big clubs". Overall, he averages 0.42 goals per game, but perhaps it is no surprise that this figure drops in the tougher fixtures.

CAN KING KENNY REIGN AGAIN?
Since The return of the King to Liverpool, I'm curious, if Kenny wins the Premier League with Liverpool, would he be the first manager to do it with such a gap in top flight football and how many managers have won the top flight division with two or more teams? Wayne Gardiner (Liverpool fan) MARTIN SAYS: It is 16 years since Kenny Dalglish last won the league title as the manager of Blackburn in 1994/95. However, there was one man who went 18 years in between title wins - Frank Watt, who was the unofficial manager of Newcastle United from 1895 to 1935. However, it must be pointed out that he was more of a club secretary than a manager and that four seasons were not played in that period due to the First World War. Biggest gaps for a manager in between title wins:
18 YEARS: Tom Watt, Newcastle (1908-09, 1926-27)
10 YEARS: George Ramsey, Aston Villa (1889-1900, 1909-10)
8 YEARS: Matt Busby, Man Utd (1956-57, 1964-65) Meanwhile, Dalglish is one of only four men to have managed two different teams to the English title - and only the second in the post-war era. The other is of course Brian Clough, who led both Derby and Nottingham Forest to league glory. Managed two teams to the title:
Tom Watson: Sunderland (1891/92, 1892/93, 1894/95) and Liverpool (1900/01, 1905/06)
Herbert Chapman: Huddersfield (1923/24, 1924/25) and Arsenal (1930/31, 1932/33, 1933/34)
Brian Clough (Derby 1971/72) and Nottingham Forest (1977/78)
Kenny Dalglish: Liverpool (1985/86, 1987/88, 1989/90) and Blackburn (1994/95)

A TEAM OF TWO HALVES?
Hi Martin! People keep saying that United usually kick up the pace during the second half of the season. Personally, I believe that they have done that for a few seasons, but not every time as I recall. Do you have any statistics to back this claim? Thanks! Bryan Lee (Manchester Utd) MARTIN SAYS: I can tell you that in 11 of the 18 Premier League seasons that we've had in the Premier League, Manchester United have picked up more points in the second half of the season than they did in the first. That's true of the last two seasons and also notably in the 2002/03 season when they picked up just 35 points from their first 19 games - and then gained 48 form the last 19 to win the title. However, they have had some dramatic collapses as well. In 2003/04 they led the table after 19 games, picking up 15 wins and 46 points. However, they won only eight of their final 19 games, accumulating just 29 points and finished third behind Arsenal and Chelsea. Overall, they have accumulated 729 points in the first half of seasons and 765 in the second half, which over 18 seasons equates to around two points per season more in the second half. The point I would make here is that a lot of teams tend to fall away, but United at least sustain it throughout the season and that's why they've done so well. United first half of season vs second half comparison (Premier League era):

Season	Wins (1st half)	Points (1st half)	Wins (2nd half)	Points (2nd half)
2009/10	13	40	14	45
2008/09	12	41	16	49
2007/08	14	45	13	42
2006/07	15	47	13	42
2005/06	12	41	13	42
2004/05	10	37	12	40
2003/04	15	46	8	29
2002/03	10	35	15	48
2001/02	10	33	14	44
2000/01	13	43	11	37
1999/00	14	43	14	48
1998/99	9	34	13	45
1997/98	13	43	10	34
1996/97	9	34	12	41
1995/96	10	35	15	47
1994/95	14	45	12	43
1993/94	16	52	11	40
1992/93	9	35	15	49

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