Indeed. A club like Newcastle will lose about two thirds of its away matches and TV matches are more likely to be against top 6 clubs so that probably increases it to three quarters or more. That means losing ten in a row is about a twenty to one chance. So randomly about one PL club should have lost ten in a row at any time
Stats suggest otherwise. Maybe there is a monday night curse: Last night Burnley 1 Newcastle 0 Monday 2 January 2017 Blackburn 1 Newcastle 0 Monday 26 December 2016 Newcastle 0 Sheffield Wednesday 1 Monday 14 March 2016 Leicester 1 Newcastle 0 Monday 28 December 2015 West Brom 1 Newcastle 0 Monday 14 September 2015 West Ham 2 Newcastle 0 Monday 13 April 2015 Liverpool 2 Newcastle 0 Monday 29 September 2014 Stoke 1 Newcastle 0 Monday 28 April 2014 Arsenal 3 Newcastle 0 Monday 30 September 2013 Everton 3 Newcastle 2 Monday 19 August 2013 Manchester City 4 Newcastle 0 Hardly world beaters in this list, City, Arsenal, Liverpool were 3 of the 11 matches. So 8 of the 11 are actually **** teams.
Wrong! The home match is irrelevant to the discussion. Of the 10 away matches, half were to clubs who finished in the top 5 that year so would have been more likely losses. Only one was against bottom five teams. So my calculation was about right.
5 decent clubs that maybe you'd expect to lose to. 5 **** clubs you wouldn't expect them to lose to. Newcastles away records: They lose at a rate of 1/2 which is no where near 2/3ds Not sure where you get the 20/1 chance of losing ten in a row. Just the 5 **** teams they've played alone you probably wouldn't get evens on them winning which would give you a chance of 2*2*2*2*2 in odds which is 32/1 already edit: hadn't checked Leicesters and Evertons finishing position so fair enough. I guess i was also making the assumption that (you didnt state) that most of the monday night games would be against a big club
Newcastle lost two thirds of their PL away games in the period in question. The good record is in the Championship which accounts for only one of the games and before this period when they were better.
What a joke. Bailly makes no attempt to play the ball and Benfica don’t get a penalty, yet anywhere else on the pitch it’s a free kick all day long. Then United get a penalty straight away at the other end. Strange old game though. - the young goalkeeper who made a howler 2 weeks ago saves it and becomes the hero.
Are the BBC taking the piss? Posted at20:18 Celtic in trouble Bad news for Celtic fans... PSG have taken the lead at home to Anderlecht through Marco Verratti. Celtic, still 1-0 down to Bayern Munich, cannot finish in the top two as it stands.
