Showing posts with label Stoke City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stoke City. Show all posts

Wednesday, 22 February 2017

On a Tuesday night in Stoke...

One of the clichés in football when a good player or team is being evaluated is "could they do it on a Tuesday night in Stoke?".

Over the last few years, online football fans have documented historical results of their respective clubs, including Stoke, so we've examined these records to find out exactly who did it, failed to do it and nearly did it on a Tuesday night in Stoke? For the sake of argument, we've only examined Stoke's games in the post-war era.

Winners
Oldham, Liverpool, West Ham, Cardiff, Derby, and Fulham have all come away from the Victoria ground, or the Britannia stadium with two wins since the end of World War II. Oldham's record is the most impressive, having never lost on the second day of the working week with a record of two wins and two draws. The Latics are also the only team with three or more Tuesday night fixtures not to have at least one loss to Stoke.
TeamWinsDrawsLosses
Oldham220
Liverpool211
West Ham211
Cardiff201
Derby201
Fulham203
Losers
Sunderland are clearly the biggest losers having only come away with a single victory in their six visits to Stoke after travelling the three hour, 300km journey from the Stadium of Light to the Britannia Stadium. No other team has more than three losses, with Fulham, Ipswich, Leeds, and Wolves sharing second spot.
TeamWinsDrawsLosses
Sunderland105
Fulham203
Ipswich123
Leeds003
Wolves003
Nearly Teams
West Brom are the nearly men of the stereotypical night in Stoke, having come close to beating their near rivals on three occasions that finished all square, which means that (along with two losses) the Baggies are the only team with more four or more appearances at Stoke on a Tuesday not to have won at least one game.
TeamWinsDrawsLosses
West Brom032
Oldham220
Sheffield Wed122
Ipswich123
Hull020
Liverpool211
West Ham211
Further Reading
History of Stoke City - Wikipedia
Stoke City Historical Results - worldfootball.net

Friday, 19 September 2014

Green European Quartets

After Darron Gibson was introduced for Stephen Naismith late in the second half of Everton's Europa League tie against Wolfsburg, to join compatriots Seamus Coleman, James McCarthy and Aiden McGeady on the pitch last night, it marked the first time four Irish players appeared for the same side in a Europa League game, and the first time a quartet of Irish players appeared together in a European game, for an English or Scottish side since August 2012.

After finishing fourth in the Scottish Premier League 2011-12 season, Dundee United qualified for the third round of the Europa League the following season where they faced Dynamo Moscow. The Terrors earned a credible 2-2 draw at Tannadice on August 2nd, with no less than five Irish players in their starting XI - Sean Dillon, Gavin Gunning, Willo Flood, Richie Ryan and Jon Daly -  but unfortunately were trounced 5-0 in Arena Khimki a week later where Gunning, Flood, Ryan and Daly started for Dundee United, with compatriot Patrick Barrett on the substitutes bench.

For the last time four Irish players appeared for an English club in European competition, we have to go back more than twelve months before Dundee United's games to July 2011 when Stoke City faced Croatian side Hadjuk Split. Marc Wilson, Glenn Whelan, Rory Delap and Jonathan Walters all lined out for the Potters, with Walters scoring the only goal in a 1-0 win.

With all four of Everton's Irish players seemingly in the forefront of Roberto Martinez's thoughts, let's hope we're not waiting at least another twelve months before four of Martin O'Neill's men are playing a European tie together!

Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Jon Walter's 2012/13 season journey

Yesterday, I asked how many kilometres did Jon Walters travel to away games in 2012/13, taking Britannia Stadium as the origin point, and the away stadium in each game as the destination (taking his home address as the origin point would be a little weird!)
Using Google Maps, you can get the distance in the route between two points on a map, so using the away team's stadium as the destination in each case, you can read off the value and then total it up for the season.
Date Competition Home Team Result Away Team Location Distance(km)
18-Aug-12 Premier League Reading 1-1 Stoke City Madejski Stadium 252
01-Sep-12 Premier League Wigan 2-2 Stoke City DW Stadium 83.2
22-Sep-12 Premier League Chelsea 1-0 Stoke City Stamford Bridge 268
07-Oct-12 Premier League Liverpool 0-0 Stoke City Anfield 95.8
20-Oct-12 Premier League Manchester United 4-2 Stoke City Old Trafford 81
03-Nov-12 Premier League Norwich 1-0 Stoke City Carrow Road 320
19-Nov-12 Premier League West Ham United 1-1 Stoke City Upton Park 269
01-Dec-12 Premier League West Bromwich Albion 0-1 Stoke City The Hawthorns 63.5
08-Dec-12 Premier League Aston Villa 0-0 Stoke City Villa Park 70.3
22-Dec-12 Premier League Tottenham 0-0 Stoke City White Hart Lane 253
01-Jan-13 Premier League Manchester City 3-0 Stoke City Etihad Stadium 80.7
05-Jan-13 FA Cup Crystal Palace 0-0 Stoke City Selhurst Park 281
19-Jan-13 Premier League Swansea 3-1 Stoke City Liberty Stadium 307
02-Feb-13 Premier League Arsenal 1-0 Stoke City Emirates Stadium 249
23-Feb-13 Premier League Fulham 1-0 Stoke City Craven Cottage 267
10-Mar-13 Premier League Newcastle Utd 2-1 Stoke City St James' Park 316
30-Mar-13 Premier League Everton 1-0 Stoke City Goodison Park 97.1
20-Apr-13 Premier League QPR 0-2 Stoke City Loftus Road 260
06-May-13 Premier League Sunderland 1-1 Stoke City Stadium of Light 312
19-May-13 Premier League Southampton 1-1 Stoke City St Mary's Stadium 297
Total 4222.6

To put 4,200 km into context, the distance between Dublin and Praia, capital of Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa is 4500km!

Click the links for each stadium to see the journey taken from the Britannia for that game

Monday, 24 June 2013

Summer Trivia Question 1

With the close season upon us and nothing of note happening in the transfer market, I've been examining the data collected over the past season to see what, if any, interesting stats I could come up with. I'll be blogging the results over the next few weeks, but I'll pose each one as a question to my readers before revealing all.

First question is this: Taking the Britannia stadium as your starting point, how many km did Jon Walters travel in total to away games in 2012/13?
To makes things easier, here's the list of all Jon Walters' games: http://irish-abroad.appspot.com/PlayerDetails?playerID=32939
Google can be used to get the distance between two addresses, e.g. from https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Britannia+Stadium,Stoke&daddr=Anfield+Stadium,+liverpool you can see that Britannia Stadium to Anfield is 95.3km

Send me the answer on twitter @irish_abroad on facebook at facebook.com/irishfootballstatistics or email me chatsoccer@gmail.com Tag your posts with #SummerTrivia and I'll post the answer tomorrow

Have fun!