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The Football Clubs Given Penalties Most Often

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Source: Statista

Manchester United fans have to hear on a regular basis that their club has a twelfth man on the pitch in the form of the referee. Penalty awards come under special levels of scrutiny, with the accusation being that United are gifted match saving goals via soft penalties far too often. In bad news for Man U fans looking to argue back, new analysis by CIES Football Observatory has revealed that since the 2018/19 season, their team has been on the receiving end of a penalty decision with the highest frequency of all clubs in Europe’s Big-5 leagues.

As this infographic shows, United won a penalty every 299 minutes of play on average over the assessed period. For a direct Premier League comparison, local rivals Man City had to wait an average of 434 minutes between their penalties, while Liverpool won one every 574. The clubs waiting the longest in the league were Burnley (1,474), Newcastle (998 and Wolves (also 998). Burnley’s painfully long wait is also the longest of the Big-5 league teams by a long way. It could be worse though – The Championship’s Bristol City waited an average of 1,834 minutes.

West Ham Fan Channel Focus: The West Ham Way

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Today’s Fan Channel Focus is The West Ham Way, a West Ham YouTube channel.

In 2012, ExWHUEmployee created an account as a dare to prove to his mate that he could be more reliable than anyone with news on the club because of his various sources. His reliability was quickly noticed and his following started to rapidly increase as he began to be recognised as the most reliable ITK out there.

As a result of his accuracy, he started to write for a number of West Ham related websites and was even approached to write for national newspapers such as The Sun, The Mirror, The Metro and the Standard. It was from this that he decided to create the West Ham Way website.

In 2016, the West Ham Way Podcast was launched with his close friend Dave Walker and the following year saw the birth of the West Ham Way pre match event, both of which are extremely successful.

Dave Walker arrived on the scene with his creation of the popular online Fanzine “Sex, Drugs & Carlton Cole”. After creating some impressive content, Ex asked to meet him at the Queens pub on Green Street with a view of collaborating. They went on to form a close relationship and Dave eventually became an equal partner in the West Ham Way brand.

Dave is the host and the producer of The West Ham Way Podcast and the co-creator of the West Ham Way pre match event in Leytonstone. In 2019 the pre match event was taken to Las Vegas and prior to Covid-19 was also due to take place in Brisbane and Los Angeles for overseas Hammers.

After West Ham were the first team to beat Tottenham at the new White Hart Lane, Dave caused a stir when he released a Spoof video of Harry Kane which went viral, accumulating over 8 million views and giving our fans a laugh in the process! He has also worked with the likes of Sky Sports, BT Sport, ESPN, TalkSport, BBC 5 Live and overseas media outlets for punditry and presenting.

Here is a recent video, “Bowen drops another MOTM performance in comfortable win over Norwich | West Ham 2-0 Norwich City”:

You can also connect with The West Ham Way on:

Facebook
Instagram
Patreon
Spotify
The Web
Twitter
and YouTube.

Let us know if there are other YouTubers, podcasters or bloggers you would like to see added to Follr!