Go to www.premierleague.com and click on the Actim lnk. For those of you who don't know what Actim is, it is a data collection company that specialises in football data. Every week, you get a team of the week which is comprised of the best eleven players who ply their trade in the EPL. Not based on opinions or arguments, but on statistics. Pass completion, shot accuracy, tackle success and so on.
So, bearing in mind that this was a full week of action with only Tottenham and Portsmouth excluded, how many players do ya reckon we got in the team? 1? 2? Try 7! Reina, Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia, Gerrard, Garcia and Crouch all got in. 7!!! Bare in mind the fact that Garcia was sub and that Nando isn't even on this and he scored twice!
If this sort of domination of the actim team is a sign of things to come, it doesn't half get me excited. It really starts to feel like we are the European champions.
Sweet.