This Seasons Premier League...

[KopiteBehaviour]

As the season is drawing to an end I have been looking back at the various twists and turns and come to a realisation.

I honestly don't mean to take away from Roberto's achievement but I feel the standard of premier league football has dropped considerably. (not just us, every team in the league)

For example: Liverpool finished 7th last season, they haven't added anything major to their team and the look like the are going to win the thing. They were 28 points behind last seasons winners.

Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City, Tottenham and ourselves are "teams in transition" so the expectations are lowered to what we can achieve, this has allowed a 7th place team to challenge for the league, this has allowed teams like Crystal Palace to string 5 wins together in a row.

Realistically, imagine Utd, Chelsea & City didn't change managers, would we still be in the race for 4th? Would Liverpool be in a title challenge? I doubt it.

Unfortunately the "success" of the two Merseyside clubs this season seems nothing more than fantastic timing due to weaknesses in the teams around us and a lower quality of Premier League football in general.

*puts in tin on and waits for explosions*

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

Don't agree.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

/Moved to World Football

Outside the top 7, the standard of the league has dropped considerably in the last few years. You only have to look at what points tally is needed for top four in comparison to years previous.

 

[davek]

As the season is drawing to an end I have been looking back at the various twists and turns and come to a realisation.

I honestly don't mean to take away from Roberto's achievement but I feel the standard of premier league football has dropped considerably. (not just us, every team in the league)

For example: Liverpool finished 7th last season, they haven't added anything major to their team and the look like the are going to win the thing. They were 28 points behind last seasons winners.

Man Utd, Chelsea, Man City, Tottenham and ourselves are "teams in transition" so the expectations are lowered to what we can achieve, this has allowed a 7th place team to challenge for the league, this has allowed teams like Crystal Palace to string 5 wins together in a row.

Realistically, imagine Utd, Chelsea & City didn't change managers, would we still be in the race for 4th? Would Liverpool be in a title challenge? I doubt it.

Unfortunately the "success" of the two Merseyside clubs this season seems nothing more than fantastic timing due to weaknesses in the teams around us and a lower quality of Premier League football in general.

*puts in tin on and waits for explosions*

City, Chelsea, United in transition.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

 

[KopiteBehaviour]

Don't agree.

Really? You think the big clubs are playing good football? You think City/Chelsea/Utd from 3/4 seasons ago would have been beaten by the kopites? See my point?

/Moved to World Football

Outside the top 7, the standard of the league has dropped considerably in the last few years. You only have to look at what points tally is needed for top four in comparison to years previous.

Cheers! Yeah it really has, the fact the league is so "open" means the standard has dropped, championship clubs are coming up and finishing top 10 and winning 5 in a row :S

 

[rascal]

It is a tough one between this seasons Liverpool and the United of 10/11 which couldn't win away but I do think Liverpool will be the worst champions for many many years, certainly in my lifetime.

 

[Carlito]

According to the press this has been the greatest, most competitive season in Premier League history.

Seems like an odd claim considering a terrible Arsenal team were top for most of it.

 

[Millea]

City, Chelsea, United in transition.

When the cat's away the mice will play.

Thought this last night when I was in bed.

Arsenal are just bottle merchants like us.

The reasons Arsenal and Liverpool are/have been top is because the other teams around them were rebuilding and United dropped out of the top 4.

Liverpool have done their transition season while everyone else around them is in theirs apart from Arsenal.

 

[Minimeister]

There's a huge difference between competitiveness and quality. Yes this league is brilliant to watch but in terms of quality it hasn't been great for a while. Only last season people were saying United were the worse team to win it and it's hardly got better than that.

 

[Tubey]

There's around seven, perhaps eight teams who are in the "real" Premier League. The other twelve are basically "Championship Plus".

Liverpool will become the worst collective team to win it in the history of the modern game, doing so solely by having world class strikers obliterate the turd they come up against week after week.

Overall, we have the weakest league of the "top three", miles behind Germany and Spain.

 

[Fresh Prince of Belle Val]

Ch

Really? You think the big clubs are playing good football? You think City/Chelsea/Utd from 3/4 seasons ago would have been beaten by the kopites? See my point?



Cheers! Yeah it really has, the fact the league is so "open" means the standard has dropped, championship clubs are coming up and finishing top 10 and winning 5 in a row :S

To compare Chelsea 3/4 years ago to
Liverpool 3/4 years ago is a huge difference. Obviously if every top side stayed the top side and every average team stayed average, we wouldn't have Liverpool winning the league. But I don't think it's a case of teams over/under performing. The league table reflects this seasons performances. And the [Poor language removed] deserve to be their on credit. Rather than other teams underperforming. It's just a shame we have dropped some silly points, as we are really not that far behind them in terms of squad.

 

[Khalekan]

Personally I think the sad fact is there is now a two tier league within a league.

And I am just thankful that we seem to have managed to scramble aboard a raft which at one stage looked like it was only going to hold six teams.

But there is now a very wide gulf opening up between the current top seven and the rest.

Where the RS have been spectacularly successful is in putting those other thirteen teams to the sword on the most occasions.

Just think....the last time we finished fourth we did so with five points fewer than we currently have....and we still have four games to go.

I think the bar has been raised....not lowered.

 

[messymascot]

Standard is poor this season look at how easily Barcelona and Bayern dismissed City, Arsenal and United. Liverpool have took advantage of playing less games but there squad of nothing players will be found out next season. Teams will go away this summer and work out ways to stop there strikers.

 

[rascal]

Personally I think the sad fact is there is now a two tier league within a league.

And I am just thankful that we seem to have managed to scramble aboard a raft which at one stage looked like it was only going to hold six teams.

But there is now a very wide gulf opening up between the current top seven and the rest.

Where the RS have been spectacularly successful is in putting those other thirteen teams to the sword on the most occasions.

Just think....the last time we finished fourth we did so with five points fewer than we currently have....and we still have four games to go.

I think the bar has been raised....not lowered.

The season we finished 4th was a one-off.

 

[Azzurri]

The season we finished 4th was a one-off.

Well, erm yeah. Obviously.