The following is a post I have written for a soon to be launch premier league statsitics blog site. I will write more about it when it goes live, and any articles I publish there will also find there way onto this site. For the time being please follow the very hardworking EPLIndex team on twitter as they prepare or launch. You can find them @EPLIndex
With six new signings already in a very pro-active summer break, Canary fans are left wondering who if anyone will be added to make up the final places in Paul Lambert’s 25 man squad.
With all the new signings being from the already well established ‘Lambert Mould’ of hungry young players, eager to test themselves, supporters may worry that Lambert will forgo the temptation to add the one thing to his squad that it seems would calm their worries, Premier League experience.
The Twittering #yellowarmy seem obsessed with it, I myself was undecided on the issue until I put my statistical hat on for EPLIndex and tried to answer the question, When trying to survive in the Premier League how important is experience?
Two teams who fought to the end and near end last season were Blackpool and West Ham. Of the two Blackpool will leave the top flight with the most neutrals singing their praises, as they played with a fearless attacking emphasis. West Ham on the other hand were at times hopeless, despite the influence of the Football Writers Player of the Year Scott Parker they were rightly relegated, with no argument forthcoming from the neutral.
Little Norwich 