- Jan 15, 2017
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This deserves it's own thread.
19 games. 50 points. An unbelievable run over half a season's worth of games that I never thought I'd see from a Tottenham side. As the mathematicians amongst you can work out, if we'd kept this up for the entire season we'd finish on 100 points which has never been done before in the PL.
This isn't the first time in the Premier League that a team has taken 50 points from 19 games. But it is exceptionally rare. To put it into context, not even Arsenal's "invincibles" or either of Man Utd's European Cup winning sides managed that level of consistency in the league. Neither Liverpool nor Man City have ever reached that mark in the Premier League era, at least not over a single season.
Now let me put this into context specifically as a fan of Tottenham Hotspur. In the 21 full seasons that the Premier League became a 38 game season, we have finished all 38 games with 50 points or less in eight of them - that's more than a third (and we've finished with 53 points or less in more than half of the seasons). Now most of these were in the dark days of 1996-2004, where we averaged 48 points a season over the eight years. As recently as the 07/08 season when we had Berbatov, Keane, Lennon, Bale, Woodgate and King in the squad, we finished with only 46 points, and only 51 the following year.
50 points from half a season's worth of games. That is absolutely insane. If you are young enough to have missed out on Francis, Gross, Graham, Hoddle and Pleat, take a moment to realise how lucky you are to be watching this Tottenham side.
19 games. 50 points. An unbelievable run over half a season's worth of games that I never thought I'd see from a Tottenham side. As the mathematicians amongst you can work out, if we'd kept this up for the entire season we'd finish on 100 points which has never been done before in the PL.
This isn't the first time in the Premier League that a team has taken 50 points from 19 games. But it is exceptionally rare. To put it into context, not even Arsenal's "invincibles" or either of Man Utd's European Cup winning sides managed that level of consistency in the league. Neither Liverpool nor Man City have ever reached that mark in the Premier League era, at least not over a single season.
Now let me put this into context specifically as a fan of Tottenham Hotspur. In the 21 full seasons that the Premier League became a 38 game season, we have finished all 38 games with 50 points or less in eight of them - that's more than a third (and we've finished with 53 points or less in more than half of the seasons). Now most of these were in the dark days of 1996-2004, where we averaged 48 points a season over the eight years. As recently as the 07/08 season when we had Berbatov, Keane, Lennon, Bale, Woodgate and King in the squad, we finished with only 46 points, and only 51 the following year.
50 points from half a season's worth of games. That is absolutely insane. If you are young enough to have missed out on Francis, Gross, Graham, Hoddle and Pleat, take a moment to realise how lucky you are to be watching this Tottenham side.