I saw this mentioned in an article today and was surprised by the answer... so I thought I'd see if you clever clogs knew it.. no googling please chaps...
Between 2010 and 2016 which player led the Premier League in tackles per game five times in six seasons...?
I also feel the need to issue a caveat, it was a throwaway comment on SSN and I thought that can't be right, but his Wiki page says it too with citation... now I know you shouldn't believe everything that you read on Wiki but it appears to have some legs.
Ps. Thanks for joining in chaps and in the right spirit of mindless trivia you have avoided googling it as well.
If it's a strange answer then maybe a goalkeeper? David de Gea?
I might have misled you... not so much strange as surprising... I guess the other clue is that the comment about him was made on the Sky football news in the last few days.
Correct... caught me off-guard when I first heard it...!
I remember seeing something the other year saying that he'd put in more tackles than anyone in the league even though he'd only played about 24 games. Very underrated player I thought. Perhaps a victim of being overshadowed by the likes of Gerrard, Alonso and Mascherano when he first joined Liverpool.
Hopefully Bully can do something similar for us this season.
Correct... caught me off-guard when I first heard it...!
I remember seeing something the other year saying that he'd put in more tackles than anyone in the league even though he'd only played about 24 games. Very underrated player I thought. Perhaps a victim of being overshadowed by the likes of Gerrard, Alonso and Mascherano when he first joined Liverpool.
Hopefully Bully can do something similar for us this season.
You are better informed than me. Apparently, in his last 5 games last season Lucas contributed the same number of Premier League assists as £80m Paul Pogba all season... I'm gobsmacked, never really rated him at all, but maybe that is because I paid more attention to what he couldn't do rather than what he actually did..?
I remember seeing something the other year saying that he'd put in more tackles than anyone in the league even though he'd only played about 24 games. Very underrated player I thought. Perhaps a victim of being overshadowed by the likes of Gerrard, Alonso and Mascherano when he first joined Liverpool.
Hopefully Bully can do something similar for us this season.
You are better informed than me. Apparently, in his last 5 games last season Lucas contributed the same number of Premier League assists as £80m Paul Pogba all season... I'm gobsmacked, never really rated him at all, but maybe that is because I paid more attention to what he couldn't do rather than what he actually did..?
That's the result of reading this forum and its predecessor for too many years, matey! It softens the brain and makes you start doing things like writing players off before you've even seen them etc. :-)