Eamonn Rushe

I’m away this week so I won’t have time to do a complete rundown for week 11. Last week there was a comment on the article which said that it would be interesting to use the APL point format to chart recent form, and I agree. So along with the full table, there is also […]

Arsenal bouncing back, Newcastle remaining unbeaten, Spurs climbing the table. The APL continues to take shape, despite quiet weekends for the two Manchester sides. Arsenal are the week’s big movers after their big win at Chelsea. Despite scoring five times the winning margin was only two goals, but when the team in 11th beats the team […]

As the goals rained in at Old Trafford on Sunday, I was thinking about one thing. Could this be the first ever double digit point score for an APL game? Yes it could. The previous highest was Newcastle’s 6-0 win against Aston Villa last season in Week 2 which won them 9.61 points The winning […]

For the last three weeks Manchester City have been slowly chipping away at United’s lead, and their efforts have finally been rewarded as they have now reclaimed the APL’s top spot. City’s big win over a previously unbeaten Aston Villa means that they have scored 7.25 more points than United in the last 3 weeks. […]

In Gameweek 7 of the Premier League, there were plenty of goals, impressive wins for each of the top six and a jump of eight places for Fulham in this week’s Alternative Premier League. Football is a funny old game. Fulham were winless after six games and were coming up against a QPR team who […]

Bolton’s miserable run of form continued with a fifth straight defeat now sees them occupy the Alternative Premier League (APL)’s bottom spot. The Arsenal v Bolton clash turned out to be a bottom three clash – not something that I thought I’d be saying at the start of the season. It took the sending off […]

Last week Arsenal was cautiously looking over its shoulder at the teams below them, a worry that has now been lifted from its shoulders – because there’s no one below them to look at. That’s right, the once mighty Gunners now find themselves propping up the APL as four of last week’s bottom five picked […]

The hat-trick. Once celebrated as an event of occasional brilliance, and a rare event that would stop the presses. It's now a plaything of the two Manchester clubs. City and United currently have four between them in the last two weeks, and it is these goals that are setting United and City apart at the […]

Goals? Did anyone order any goals? It seems that all the goals that have been missing from the six 0-0 draws so far this season have been claimed by the two Manchester sides who took Sunday afternoon as a chance to offer an ominous warning to the rest of the league. Unsurprisingly City and United […]

Two weeks down and it seems as if the Premier League was never away, or at least that’s how Manchester City must be feeling. After taking apart new boys Swansea at home, City followed that game up with an impressive and hard fought win over last week’s big winners Bolton. A persistent Bolton side kept […]