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In spite of fielding their most inexperienced squad of the season, Arsenal comfortably extended their unbeaten run to start the season to a Premiership record thirteen games with a 3-0 win at St Andrews.
The accompanying table shows all the clubs who have fashioned an unbeaten run of more than nine matches to start the season (bizarrely no team has a sequence of exactly ten), along with their final position and points clear at the end of the runAs can be seen a solid start is no guarantee of ultimate success. Indeed, Arsenal themselves are the only club to turn such a run into the championship. Then, as know, they were in a close three team race, with Manchester United and Blackburn. Indeed they trailed the Red Devils as they ended their run with two disappointing goal-less draws. They will certainly hope to fare better than last season's pretenders Liverpool who turned an eight point lead over Manchester United after twelve games into a nineteen point defecit by season's end
Nottingham Forest flattered to deceive on a couple of occasions. Their 1995/6 start included more draws than victories and ended with their worst ever-defeat, a 7-0 trouncing at Blackburn, the very team that had concluded their sequence the year before.
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| Team | Year | Games | Final Pos | Points Clear |
Arsenal |
2003/4 |
13 |
? |
1 |
Liverpool |
2002/3 |
12 |
5 |
7 |
Aston Villa |
1998/9 |
12 |
6 |
3 |
Arsenal |
1997/8 |
12 |
1 |
-1 |
Nottingham Forest |
1995/6 |
12 |
9 |
-7 |
Leeds United |
2001/2 |
11 |
5 |
+1 |
Nottingham Forest |
1994/5 |
11 |
3 |
-2 |
Newcastle United |
1994/5 |
11 |
6 |
+2 |
| Go Figure 22-24 November |
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Birmingham City 0–3 Arsenal Adding to his accomplishments at the end of last season against
Southampton and Sunderland, Henry now has
three of the last six assist hattricks in the Premiership
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Everton 2–0 Wolverhampton Wanderers Wolves remain on target to field a starting line up
which averages over 30 years of age throughout the season, a figure matched only by Bradford in their two campaigns
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Fulham 2–0 Portsmouth Saha is the first player to score three or more goals with each foot
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Leeds United 0–2 Bolton Wanderers Leeds become the twenty-sixth Premiership to suffer
a six game or longer losing sequence. Fifteen of the other clubs were relegated
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Leicester City 1–1 Charlton Athletic Charlton extend their unbeaten run to seven games, joining
Arsenal and Chelsea who have also accomplished the feat in the past three seasons
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Manchester United 2–1 Blackburn Rovers At 67,748, a record Premiership crowd. United now own the
top 141 attendances, and counting
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Middlesbrough 0–0 Liverpool A fixture that has become much less exciting over the years. The first eight Premiership
games averaged exactly four goals a game; the subsequent nine have produced a total of just ten strikes.
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Newcastle United 3–0 Manchester City With eleven goals to date Shearer tops the scoring lists once again, on the back of his 54th
multiple goal game in the Premiership, 22 clear od his nearest rival, Robbie Fowler
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Southampton 0–1 Chelsea Chelsea record their second four game winning run of the season, a sequence they have
yet to exceed in the Premiership
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Tottenham Hotspur 2–1 Aston Villa Keane has been a remarkably consistent scorer with each of his clubs, averaging
224 minutes per goal with Coventry; 209 with Leeds; and 219 with Spurs
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