I think I understand the pattern now. My blog is more interesting during transfer
windows than it is during the rest of the season.
And people like it when I summarize information from Football Manager
even though many of them complain that it is just a game.
Nevertheless, I want to thank everyone who has read my blog more
than once. If it weren’t for all of you
I would definitely have fewer page hits.
I had started work on an End of Season Potpourri post addressing a
lot of little minor things. After
partially writing it, I lost interest when the FIFA indictment became big
news. However, a few parts of it still
interest me and I will include them.
My Program Collection
I decided to support Southampton FC and add to my ability to read
about Southampton FC by subscribing, at a relatively high cost, to the year’s
collection of home programs. (Are they
called programs in England or is there some other word for them?) The club happily (I assume) shipped each
program to me following the game and I enjoyed reading them all. Unfortunately, the program for the Stoke game
never arrived. I contacted the club on
the official website twice and never heard back. I am a little annoyed that I do not have a
complete collection. Can anyone suggest
how I can get my Stoke program? I am
willing to pay for it.
It Is Not You It Is Us
Since I am not from Newcastle, I never really understood the
intense hatred the Newcastle fans have for Alan Pardew. However, I think the following records are
worth noting:
W D L Pt. GF GA GD
Club One 6 11 21 29 38 65 -27
Club Two 17 7 14 58 49 49 0
Club One is Newcastle and Crystal Palace without Alan Pardew as
their manager. Club Two is Crystal
Palace and Newcastle the rest of the time.
The without-Pardew club would have been relegated in last place. The with-Pardew club was nearly as good as
Southampton.
Sure, the other two managers may not have been very good, but no
one seriously believes that either Newcastle or Crystal Palace as really as
good as Southampton or slightly better than Swansea, yet those are the results
Pardew achieved.
To me, this suggests that the problems in Newcastle were not caused by Alan
Pardew, but by the ownership of the club.
Of course, this is much less of an insight now then it was earlier in
the season when the Newcastle fans were trying to get Alan Pardew fired
apparently not realizing that he would be replaced, effectively, with no
one. However, it does cast doubt on how
real any turn around can be at Newcastle.
If I were a Newcastle fan, I would not be holding my breath.
If I had had a vote for manager of the year I would have voted for
Pardew over Koeman, Monk, and Mourinho, in that order. (In fact, I think that both Koeman and
Mourinho slightly underachieved what their respective squads were capable of.)
Blog Stats
Since my last Milestone post my four most popular posts (based
upon direct page hits which understates interest in posts while they are still
on the first page of my blog) were European Qualification Rules for SouthamptonFans (which was by far the leader
with around 780 page views), Southampton Weekly Salaries (Update final FM 2015database) , Good Riddance Harry Redknapp, and Southampton Weekly Salaries. Because of the limited
information I receive I do not have exact numbers and I cannot determine the
fifth most popular article.
Here are my most popular posts for the last month:
Entry | Pageviews | |||||||||
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146
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112
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Jun 9, 2015
|
68
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Jun 11, 2015, 4 comments
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56
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Jun 2, 2015, 2 comments
|
45
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43
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Jun 6, 2015, 3 comments
|
39
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37
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Jan 13, 2015, 3 comments
|
35
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33
|
Here are my
all time most popular posts. The list is no long as totally dominated by posts from my first couple of weeks of blogging. In fact, the European Qualification Rules post is now second.
Entry | Pageviews | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aug 1, 2014
|
1326
| |||||||||
Jan 13, 2015, 3 comments
|
815
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Jul 30, 2014, 1 comment
|
494
| |||||||||
359
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355
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Aug 5, 2014, 1 comment
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274
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Jan 5, 2015, 2 comments
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273
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196
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Aug 26, 2014, 2 comments
|
192
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176
|
Here are updates to the statistics I published in my last
milestone post. I recognize that this
information is probably not of interest to very many people. However, posting it here gives me access to
it because I cannot go back and get this information historically from blogspot. Possibly, I should have been saving this
information every month as I went along.
Maybe I will start doing that at the end of this month.
Here is where my page views have come from: in the last month:
Pageviews by Countries
Entry | Pageviews |
---|---|
United Kingdom
|
1421
|
United States
|
306
|
Australia
|
57
|
France
|
33
|
Malaysia
|
33
|
Ukraine
|
32
|
Greece
|
31
|
India
|
29
|
Kenya
|
25
|
Singapore
|
23
|
Pageviews by Countries
Entry | Pageviews |
---|---|
United Kingdom
|
20467
|
United States
|
3589
|
Australia
|
681
|
France
|
653
|
Spain
|
239
|
Netherlands
|
219
|
Sweden
|
214
|
Russia
|
201
|
Malaysia
|
183
|
Canada
|
175
|
Here is the browser and operating system information for last month:
Pageviews by Browsers
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Pageviews by Operating Systems
|
And for all time:
Pageviews by Browsers
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Pageviews by Operating Systems
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