A challenge for those who love statistics...

[Tktd]

I want whoever's up for this challenge to find out the following facts...

In regards to pitch size - where does Fulhams pitch come in regards to size in comparison to all the other premier league pitches!?

Also - Are the more successful teams the teams with the biggest home pitches or the one's with the smallest or the one's which are middle sized?!

The reason I ask these is because I firmly believe that Fulham's poor away record is simply down to the fact that Fulham have one of the smallest home pitches in the league and so when it comes to playing away , having practised soo much for our small pitch we're found wanting when it comes to bigger pitches.

The craven cottage pitch got made smaller a couple of years back too to fit in the extra pitch side seating (which everyone who's supported can testify too) and so is our poor away form down to the size of our pitch - does anyone have any other stats that may help this theory?!


I think it may suprise quite a few.

[Logicalman]

	Yards	Capacity	SQ Yards	Cap/SqYd
Hull	114 x 78	25,404	8892	2.85
Villa	114 × 78	42,783	8892	4.81
Blackburn	115 x 76	31,367	8740	3.58
Everton	112 x 78	40,157	8736	4.59
Sunderland	115 × 75	49,000	8625	5.68
Arsenal	113 × 76	60,355	8588	7.02
Man Utd	114.8 x 74.4	75,797	8541.12	8.87
Pompey	115 x 73	20,224	8395	2.40
Fulham	110 x 75	25,700	8250	3.11
Chelse_a	113 x 73	42,055	8249	5.09
Citeh	113 × 73	47,726	8249	5.78
Liverpool	111 x 74	45,276	8214	5.51
Burnley	114 × 72	22,546	8208	2.74
Spuds	110 x 73	36,310	8030	4.52
Wigan	120 × 66	25,138	7920	3.17
Bolton	110 x 72	28,723	7920	3.62
Brum	109 × 72	30,079	7848	3.83
Stoke	110 by 70	28,383	7700	3.68
Spam	110 x 70	35,303	7700	4.58
Wolves	109 x 70	28,525	7630	3.73

Looks like size doesn't matter, but capacity does .. erm.

[finnster01]

A few interesting observations there: Villa has the largest (joint) and widest pitch. Explains why O'Neill has focused so much on quality flank players. Makes a lot of sense.

[LRCN]

A few interesting observations there: Villa has the largest (joint) and widest pitch. Explains why O'Neill has focused so much on quality flank players. Makes a lot of sense.

and so do hull, which explains why they're so sh*t.