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Chelsea's contentious £10 million purchase of Scott Parker resulted in a transfer figure that the whole divison could not match in the first three seasons of the Premiership. A decade ago, Blackburn were accused of trying to buy a title and Chelsea will be hoping to emulate their 1994/5 achievement
Chelsea have accounted for close to 50% of the total outlay this season and ,excluding their expenditure, the total falls well short of any year since 1994/5. The extreme problems Leeds have encountered since heading the pack and the Bosman ruling have clearly had an impact. Also the use of loan players has increased markedly. After accounting for less than 1% of starts in any year until this century, the proportion of appearances has reached 7% this season
Looking at the most expensive players each year indicates that quantity may not always result in quality. Shearer and Keane clearly belong in an all-time Premiership eleven but Collymore was an aberration, Veron an almost complete bust whilst Ferdinand was considered over-priced even before he took himself out of competition for eight months
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| Season | Total | Leading Team | Leading Player | ||
| £m | £m | £m | |||
| 2003/4 to date |
254 | Chelsea | 121 | Damien Duff | 17.0 |
| 2002/3 | 206 | Man Utd | 32 | Rio Ferdinand | 30.0 |
| 2001/2 | 400 | Man Utd | 54 | Juan Veron | 28.1 |
| 2000/1 | 359 | Leeds Utd | 41 | Rio Ferdinand | 18.0 |
| 1999/00 | 269 | Liverpool | 34 | Emile Heskey | 11.0 |
| 1998/9 | 290 | Blackburn | 40 | Dwight Yorke | 12.6 |
| 1997/8 | 237 | Newcastle | 21 | Jaap Stam | 10.8 |
| 1996/7 | 180 | Newcastle | 16 | Alan Shearer | 15.0 |
| 1995/6 | 193 | Arsenal | 12 | Stan Collymore | 8.5 |
| 1994/5 | 121 | Everton | 12 | Andy Cole | 6.2 |
| 1993/4 | 89 | Blackburn | 8 | Roy Keane | 3.8 |
| 1992/3 | 71 | Blackburn | 9 | Alan Shearer | 3.3 |
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| Go Figure 31 Jan - 01 Feb 2004 |
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Arsenal 2–1 Manchester City Little hoopla, but Arsenal's
twenty-third unbeaten game on the trot is a single-season Premiership record.
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Birmingham City 1–1 Newcastle United A last-minute goal enables
Birmingham to ease off the bottom of the goals-for category, but they remain the only team this season yet to
have scored a goal with a shot from outside the penalty area
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Blackburn Rovers 2–3 Chelsea With the signing of Scott Parker,
Chelsea's spending tops the £120 million mark More...
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Charlton Athletic 1–2 Bolton Wanderers The player with the longest non double-barrelled
name in Premiership history, Giannakopoulos, is subbed by the one with the shortest, Ba
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Fulham 2–1 Tottenham Hotspur Spurs winning run ends at three but they have only bettered the sequence
in two other Premiership seasons. Only Manchester United have achieved a run of four or more wins each year and, indeed, their poorest performance
has been five consecutive victories
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Leeds United 0–3 Middlesbrough After starting the season on a twenty game stretch without achieving the feat,
Boro post back-to-back three goal games for the first time since April 2000
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Leicester City 0–5 Aston Villa Hitzlsperger's three-assist performance - the first by a Villa player in more than eight years, highlights the clubs record away win
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Liverpool 0–0 Everton Martyn becomes the first goalkeeper to achieve shut-outs against Liverpool
for three different clubs
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Manchester United 3–2 Southampton Unless the Dubious Goals Committee find otherwise, Saha becomse the first United
player (but only twenty-eighth in total) to record both a goal and assist on his debut
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Portsmouth 0–0 Wolverhampton Wanderers For both teams, two of their three goalless draws in the Premiership have come against each other
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