Ben Carter
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694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, somebody's got to do it, Tim.
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I looked at the last ten Premier League seasons and compared each end-of-season table with a table in which I'd stripped out the results of the four matches over Christmas and the New Year.
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the outcome of the title was affected just once in the 2011-2012 season.
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Quite.
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And without those fixtures, United would have won the title just by a solitary point.
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And there's another season when the Christmas fixtures were important.
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That was the 2004-2005 season.
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Now, I remember that.
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Tim, you are a true football historian.
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You are, of course, correct.
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But if we took out the Christmas fixtures that year, then Bolton and not Everton would have finished fourth.
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Wow.
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Yes, and in this alternate reality, they would have been relegated in 2007-2008 instead of Reading.
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But if we look at how teams perform over Christmas compared to their Premier League performance as a whole, things get more interesting.
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There is one team that seems to excel at Christmas relative to its usual record.
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So come on then, who are the kings of Christmas?
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a team that have had a very difficult last month, Tottenham Hotspur.
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They averaged nearly half a point more per game over Christmas than during the season overall.
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And what to do about it.
And the next thing to find out is who will be playing who in the finals next year.
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