Is this the least drawtastic season in top-flight history?
There have indeed been a mere nine draws in the Premier League so far this season, from 76 games this season, a total of just 11.8%. In contrast La Liga has seen 13 in 60 games (21.6%), Ligue 1 17 from 80 games (21.3%), Serie A 23 in 70 games (32.9%) and the Bundesliga 18 from 80 games (22.5%). A statistical trawl through the archive shows that we are indeed on course for a Premier League record (yes, we know football existed before 1992, but our eyes are swimming with figures just having gone back 17 years, so it’ll have to do). As you can see from our excellent and informative table on the left, no season since the Premier League began has had so few draws at this stage of the season. The memorable 1999-2000 season comes closest, with 13 draws (the numbers in brackets indicate the number of games played – the untidy nature of the fixture list means it’s impossible to compare exactly like-for-like). Last season there were 15, in 1995-96 17, and so on and so forth. You can order the ta
