Stats!!!!!!!!

- 2004-5 is the first Premiership season where no team has been relegated before the final weekend.

- If Norwich do not win, the surviving team will have amassed the lowest points total of any team escaping the Premiership trapdoor - the record is currently 36 by Bradford in 1999-2000.

- If West Brom do not win they will be relegated regardless of other results.

- If Southampton or Crystal Palace lose their final game they will be relegated.

- No team bottom of the table at Christmas has ever survived in The Premiership - West Brom hold the unwanted accolade this season.

- The Champions of the second tier have avoided the drop in their first Premiership campaign since Nottingham Forest went straight back down in 1999.

- Norwich are the only team in The Premiership not to have won an away game this season.

- West Brom have won the fewest home matches (four) this season.

- Norwich have conceded more goals (71) than any other team in the top flight this season.

- Crystal Palace have lost more games (19) than any other team.

- Southampton have lost more away games (thirteen) than any other team.

- All four teams have been in 17th position in the last month.

- If Crystal Palace keep a shut out, but go down,
they will have equalled the record for most clean sheets (eleven) by a relegated team.

- The current bottom three have just one more point in total between them than Champions Chelsea have accrued going into the final weekend.

- Only Highbury has seen more goals this season than Carrow Road's 61.

- Norwich have won just one and lost seven of their eleven games live on Sky this season.

- If the league had started on January 1 2005 none of the four teams would be in the bottom three.

- If Norwich stay up they may become the first team in Premiership history to survive having the worst defensive record in the top flight.

- Norwich have named the same starting XI in consecutive games on ten occasions - more than any other team in the top flight.

- West Brom, Norwich and Crystal Palace have all taken points from Manchester United in the last two months - on Sunday it's Southampton's turn to try.

- If the bottom three win and Norwich survive defeat, the bottom-placed team will equal the highest points tally (34) for 20th place in a 38-game Premiership season.

- If West Brom do not beat Portsmouth they will have picked up just five wins and only one team in Premiership history has earned fewer - Sunderland won four in 2002-3.

- West Brom have won none of their seven games this season against their rivals in the current bottom five.

- No team since Bradford in 1999-2000 has gone into the final day in the relegation zone and survived.

- Only five teams in twelve Premiership seasons
have gone into the final day in the relegation spots and avoided the drop.

- Only one team has been two positions away from safety on the final day and stayed up - Coventry in 1996-7.

- Southampton are only one of eight teams who have played in each of the thirteen Premiership seasons.

- Only four teams - Manchester United, Liverpool, Everton and Arsenal have enjoyed longer current runs in the top flight.

Posted By: SCC 26 on May 13th 2005 at 20:13:02

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