For the latest edition of Classic Matches writer Greg Lea looks back at the 4-1 Manchester Utd defeat to Liverpool in the 2008/2009 season. They face off again this weekend in the Premier League… The ball bounced up kindly off the Old Trafford turf, begging to be hit. Andrea Dossena Continue reading →
BetBright STATZONE: Premier League (14th-15th Jan 17)
Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! It’s back folks – we welcome the return of the Premier League this weekend after the FA Cup break and with a full set of fixtures spread across Saturday and Sunday there is bundles Continue reading →
Pep Guardiola versus The Hydra
Pep Guardiola is a perfect enemy for English football. His starched shirts, aloof manner and decadent success in other European leagues makes him naturally divisive in a culture which likes to either love or hate. Guardiola has his supporters and his detractors and, week to week, those two factions charge aimlessly at each Continue reading →
Adam Hurrey’s 90’s Heroes – Chesterfield’s 1997 FA Cup run…
Whatever the rights holders and sponsors tell you, it’s impossible to get as excited about the FA Cup as we did in the 1990s. There have been some occasional re-awakenings – Roy Essandoh’s Ceefax-assisted goal for Wycombe against Leicester in 2001, Bradford slaying Chelsea in 2015 – but it’s become Continue reading →
Spurs can prove more than a match for Chelsea…
Alex Keble suggests Pochettino’s outsiders can announce their arrival as Premier League royalty with victory over Chelsea…. It is a curious time to be a Tottenham Hotspur fan. Optimism has rarely felt like such a rational pursuit at White Hart Lane, and yet the club’s rapid progress seems to have Continue reading →
Adam Hurrey – Sky Sports Adverts of the 1990’s
Sky Sports Adverts of the 1990s How did the Premier League become so overhyped, overblown and overdramatic? The answer is simply that it’s had a lot of practice. 25 years ago, though, Sky Sports needed to make an immediate impact with their brave new world of football broadcasting. What they Continue reading →
Jimmy Bullard – Premier League Verdicts
Well straight in again to another packed raft of fixtures in the Premier League and as always on the BetBright Blog Jimmy Bullard is on hand with the verdicts… Don’t forget with ACCA+1 you can get a Risk Free Leg on your accumulators – with bonus winnings paid in cash! Continue reading →
BetBright STATZONE: Premier League (2nd Jan – 4th Jan 2017)
Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! We round-off the Premier League festive period during the early part of 2017 with the latest set of fixtures spread across the 2nd Jan to the 4th Jan, with ALL 20 top-flight sides in Continue reading →
Jimmy Bullard – Premier League Verdicts
Well did you all have a good one? It’s been carnage but we’ve managed to keep the predictions flying with another 8 out of 10 last week in the Premier League! Come on….how good is that?! Wall to wall football at the minute so here we go again. I can’t Continue reading →
BetBright STATZONE: Premier League (30th Dec-1st Jan)
Welcome to the BetBright STATZONE, where we give you the stats and you make the decisions! The Premier League games are coming at us thick-and-fast at the moment as we lock ourselves in for another round of fixtures spread over Friday 30th December till Sunday 1st January. Plenty of intriguing Continue reading →