Ryan Kinne dribbles the ball during training last summer (Photo: Chris Aduama/aduama.com).

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. One minute. That's the total amount of time Ryan Kinne saw on the field with the Revolution first team last season.

Typically, a player with a stat line of sixty seconds at the end of his rookie season never sees another minute.

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In which, during Borussia Monchengladbach's DFB Pokal quarter-final tie with Hertha Berlin on Wednesday night, Monchengladbach striker Igor De Camargo goes down like a big cheating sack of spuds to get Hertha centre-half Roman Hubnik sent off...

Is he alright?

It's ok... I've got it...Liverpool make the short trip up the M62 on Saturday to face their North West rivals Manchester United. After knocking United out of the FA Cup last month Liverpool will certainly feel like they have a great chance on Saturday despite the match being played on United's home turf.

Crazy stat alert: we out-passed Manchester City on Saturday.

No, I'm not grasping at straws. And yes, one can easily nuance that point away (weather stunk so the passes were short and 'easy', we were chasing the game, City was more than willing to play 10 men behind the ball), but still, the stat remains: we out-passed City, the team that almost attempted 1000 passes in a game.

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It's been a depressing few days to be an Arsenal fan as we saw points drop again – what made [.

Gunners, waiting for Götze? No longer, Thomas Eisfeld, 19 years old, who's supposed to be even more Götze than Mario Götze and comes from the same club arrives at the Emirates for a princely sum of £420,000. Which means dear Gunners, if you're waiting for the real thing, you're doing it at your own hazard.

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... and oh man what a week it has been – I have been knee deep in data again and working [.

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... What can I say – it's Mike Dean and Phil Dowd and we all know what that means don't we?

Owen Coyle has left his side with a lot to do as they strive to get out of the relegation zone...Liverpool make the trip to Bolton on Saturday for another Premier League fixture. After a disappointing draw against Stoke at Anfield, the Reds will be looking to put that behind them and take all three points from a struggling Bolton side.

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... as always – I am pushed for time but I haven't been wasting it. You might be interested to know [.

Doesn't that sound fun?!?!? Apparently, an esteemed panel of world soccer scribes (including a couple of NSC pals from England) thought so. They have combined to issue a ranking of the 100 best players on the rock.Before you go nose-dive into the link to check if some American or another made the list: nope, they didn't, zero.

See here.

So who were the star over-performers? Well there were 39 players who had 10 or more "Clear Cut" chances over the season. Eight of these had a clinicality of 50% or better. These have been ordered by how frequently they score a "Clear Cut" chance. Also included is another important shooting stat, "Penalty Area shots per goal".

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... another super quick one as I forgot there was a game today well, I didn't forget, it just sort [.

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch...

Another quick one today – but all stats are there. You may notice that on the Ref Vs Team [.

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Liverpool Face Latics At DW

Will Carroll get a start?... Liverpool make the short trip to the DW Stadium on Wednesday to face a rejuvenated Wigan side. Martinez's team are still hovering around the bottom of the table but some inspired performances of late have given them some much needed confidence.

Another new stat for you today regarding Sporting KC. And it's another single season stat. Here's a list of the top ten single season appearances and starts.
Top ten appearances in league play in a single season.
1. CJ Sapong - 34 - 2011
2. Preki - 32 - 1996
2. Mark Chung - 32 - 1996
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Looking around this morning, it's probably best to start with positive injury news, which unfortunately comes almost exclusively in terms of Villa missing players.
It seems that Bent, Heskey, Herd and possibly also Collins are out for Villa.

Continuing with the statistical updating that I've been doing, here's another new stat that I hadn't previously done. Here are the top 10 single season minutes for players throughout the team's history. As I mentioned a few times late in the year this year, Matt Besler ended up tied for the 3rd most minutes played in league play in team history.

Arsenal travel to the Etihad stadium on Sunday hoping to carry on Chel$ea's for-once good work. Man City's defeat on Monday laid to rest to all comparisons with the Invincibles, and we should be able to continue on our recent good form. 22 points from the last 24, that's not a stat to be dismissed [.

Reds Away To Villa

Downing returns to Villa... Liverpool make their way down to the Midlands on Sunday for a game against Alex McLeish's Aston Villa. Villa at the moment appear to be struggling to score goals and with Liverpool creating chances but perhaps not converting as many as they should be, this could be an interesting fixture.

Downing returns to Villa...
Liverpool make their way down to the Midlands on Sunday for a game against Alex McLeish's Aston Villa. Villa at the moment appear to be struggling to score goals and with Liverpool creating chances but perhaps not converting as many as they should be, this could be an interesting fixture.

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This match day we face Manchester City away and the Asian markets are showing an interesting 'quarter ball' market with Manchester City [.

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... if you are new to RefWatch or "just don't get it" then fear not – I covered the basics last week in [.

The MO'N era, Liverpool's third time lucky and the basement boys Liverpool A strange season thus far for Kenny Dalglish's men. Two wins against Chelsea, a point against Manchester City and the same against Manchester United. Defeats against Stoke and Fulham, and home draws against Norwich and Swansea.

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When I was gathering the season stats for all of the Philadelphia Union players to share with the PSP writers for our forthcoming 2011 season review series I realized no passing stats were available, either for the club or for individual players. Actually, that's not precisely true; you can find passing percentages for the team on a game-by-game basis by clicking on the Stat tab for each game's MatchCenter page at MLSsoccer.

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Today you catch me at an inopportune moment – don't get me wrong, I generated the stats with a full [.

Grant Holt is fat. End of story.

Coming into this match, a lot of the regulars here were genuinely worried about how we would dispose of Norwich. All of the promoted clubs have done very well so far in the EPL, and Norwich have been arguably the best of the bunch. And the conditions for this match were less than convincing: We're normally shaky after Interlulls, and we are absolutely abysmal on the road after Interlulls- a stat on the official site read that we've only won about 41% of our EPL away games right after Interlulls.

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Premier League returns today. Hurrah!! On current form and given it's Norwich we have to play today, one would think 3 points is a guarantee. Yet, this match may not be as easy as one thinks. If it turns out to be as easy as our last game, I'm all for it but the number suggest otherwise.

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... First of all greetings to all new readers who may have come here off the back of the Everton [.

Former Liverpool right-back Steve Nicol has called on Stewart Downing, Lucas Leiva, Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam to raise their collective games over the next few weeks, arguing that their creative return so far this season has not been good enough.
Nicol acknowledged that Andy Carroll has flattered to deceive in front of goal, but he believes the profligacy of Liverpool's midfielders is a bigger problem:
"For me, the biggest problem is the midfield.

One of the summer's main talking points was "chances created," a fairly new statistic meant to replace assists. Assists take two to tango, reliant on the goal scorer actually scoring the goal. LiverpoolFC.tv clarifies the stat by renaming it "shot assists," a name I actually prefer, although I'll stick with Opta's nomenclature since I'm using FourFourTwo's StatsZone stats throughout this piece.

Article by Chris Egan
Soccer Blossoming in the USA
Now we are moving into the last game of the MLS calendar, it feels fitting that we reflect on another successful year for the Major league soccer. I will be looking into their current stature with the other big four sports in america and where i think they need to go for them to expand and grow bigger.

Former Liverpool defender Gary Gillespie has added his voice to the growing chorus of dissent over Liverpool's stuttering performance against Swansea at the weekend, and believes that the lack of fluency in midfield played a big part in the team's inability to take charge of the game.
Gillespie, who was analysing the game for LFC TV, described the result as a 'massive disappointment', but was quick to praise the performances put in my Swansea's players:
"Lucas Leiva found it very difficult today, as did Charlie Adam, because they got outnumbered in the middle of the park.

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... It's one of those threadbare RefWatches today as we've got one of the new boys and there is very [.

ESPNsoccernet is reporting that Brazilian stat Neymar has agreed to join Real Madrid next summer from Santos for around £53m.

At 19, Neymar is one of the brightest talents in world football having shone for his club Santos and also on the international stage for Brazil. Yesterday he was included on the shortlist for the World Footballer Of The Year.

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Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... apologies for the lack of RefWatch last EPL match day – we woz being repressed – but I did [.

We know it's a big and extremely difficult game when Wenger himself calls it a real test and a Cup final. But I don't want to spend too much time building this fixture up. Those visiting this blog know the significance well enough.

The stats pack on Arsenal website provides some interesting nuggets.

Two second half goals in the space of two minutes were enough for Arsenal to seal their place in the Carling Cup's final eight against a wasteful Bolton side. This was Arsenal's seventh win in eight games – a stat ...
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