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Old 10-01-2005, 10:21   #2220
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Re: [Merged] Football talk
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Originally Posted by BBKing
I like it when we're not only Premiership Champions but also Fair Play Award winners. You, leg, stand on, none...
The fair play award by the FA is subjective as they award points for things like positive play and then take points away for yellow/red cards. So therefore with Arsenal having an amazing season last year, going unbeaten and scoring a lot of goals they would have acculated a large number of points for positive play. Therefore with them having such a large total gives them a big advantage over other teams when points are deducted. Same as when Man Utd won the award in their treble year.

Now if we look at another fair play table that awards points solely on cards it tells a different story.

Last season Arsenal ended up ranked joint 8th while Man Utd were join 2nd
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/f...r=2003&cc=5739

This season you are currently joint 11th while Man Utd are 1st
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/f...r=2004&cc=5739
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