With all the German clubs from both the Champions and Europa Leagues advancing to the knockout stages, and often in thrilling fashion, a lot of attention is now being given to the 3rd placed league in Europe. Coming in behind Spain and England, Germany has replaced Italy as the next best league and people are…
A brief rekindling under Louis van Gaal aside, it has been a testing few years for Bayern fans, often playing second fiddle to a couple of clubs. Battling their way through to the Champions League final at their own stadium, things seemed to be boding well for Bayern: as well as the benefit of playing…
Holding Midfield is now collaborating with the lovely folks over at InStat Football, who provide us with a huge amount of detailed statistical reports on several leagues, giving us the option of getting nerdier than ever before. They will mostly be used to supplement existing features, but there will also be fairly regular reports like…
Upon the arrival of John W Henry and his merry band of stat-men from Fenway Sports Group at Liverpool, the media scrambled to find out what they could about him. FSG also ran the Boston Red Sox, a team that had endured an 86-year title drought, a touch longer than Liverpool’s, until they won the…
