Match of the Day The one top-six clash ended in stalemate leaving both Liverpool and Chelsea even further behind the Manchester clubs

Schedule difficulty In spite of the season now more than a third gone, there remain some significant differences in terms of quality of opposition faced so far (based on finishing position last year)

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Match of the Day Following a defeat to North London rivals, Spurs now talking top 4, not title

Pulis is out Stodgy football and a points-per-game average lower than Steve Clarke will do that for you. His spell at WBA ended with the lowest ppg average of any of his three clubs. The Welsh managership may come calling

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Match of the Day Mourinho still can’t buy a result away against big clubs

The Spanish connection Morata connected up with Azpilicueta’s cross for Chelsea’s winner against Manchester United and he has now assisted on five of the striker’s seven league goals this season, only topped by six of the 52 goals Diego Costa scored for the club

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Match of the Day Kane-less Spurs lose to Pogba-less United and trail City by 8 points

Final Top 6? The accepted ‘top six’ i.e Chelsea, Spurs, Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd. were generally expected to comprise the first half-dozen come the end of the season for the second year running. Only Everton had come within 23 points of them last year - and it is clear they will be now be happy to finish outside of the bottom 6

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Match of the Day Sunday games rule; as Arsenal consign Koeman to the dustbin and Klopp may start to worry

Managers Out There have already been three dismissals with less than a quarter of the season gone Crystal Palace: de Boer - not matching playing styles to player skills Leicester City: Shakespeare - board were reluctant in first place Everton: Koeman - poor results after big summer spending spree

Given that all the promoted clubs have performed well, several others will be nervous

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I have rather belatedly gotten around to viewing the adult animated series, Archer, on Netflix. If you have not read up about the show, wikipedia has good coverage and there is an in-depth viz project -A data driven exploration of Archer - by Mara Averick and Elijah Meeks The subtitles often shout-out for a meme and I have clipped several, initially from Series 1 Ep 6.

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Game of the week Crystal Palace 2 - 2 Chelsea Champions lose to previously goalless, pointless London rivals

– Julian Speroni and Gareth McAuley made their first appearances of the season becoming the oldest player and oldest outfielder, respectively, to appear in this campaign

Mo’s MO It is a well known that Jose Mourinho’s modus operandi in away games against top sides is to play very conseravtively.

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Rstudio has recently launched a community site and it seems to be providing a great forum already. One of the topics with over 60 contributions is Choosing between this sitre and StackOverflow for posting a question As long threads tend to do, it went off at a bit of a tangent and following a comment I made, Edward Visel produced some code for reporting on recent posts on ’tidyverse which I have generalized into a shiny app - shown below.

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From being an avid daytime moviehouse attendee. I have retreated to the occasional Netflix viewing at home. Although the ‘Because you watched’ algorithm works fairly well The Matching on Netflix does not work for me so I’d kinda like to get a rating from a reputable source maybe along with a review As I’m a Guardian reader, a recent post by Maelle Salmon on extracting data from their Experience columns gave me a nudge to do something and I have used her code as a template for my works.

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Game of the week WBA 2 - 2 Watford These teams probably won’t feature much but Watford deservedly fought back from a two goal deficit

Widening gap in class It was generally forecast that the top-six of last season would repeat again in this campaign - though probably not in the same order. After just seven games, we are already just one diverted Joselu strike away from Liverpool joining the other top five from last year in the leading half-dozen

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