At the start of the season i think its safe to say that no fan would look at the league table now and think that it was going to be so tight all over the league. With just 3 league games each to play we still don't have one team that looks to be definitely relegated, the race for the last European spot is still heating up and the title race seems to change forces each week. It's proven to be one of the most fascinating league seasons to date and we just don't want it to end, unfortunately this year will most likely see the best team to have been relegated and probably the worst team to have won the league for a while as well.
The top and bottom half of the league table used to have such a massive gap between them that anyone that would usually finish in the bottom half were just described as a bottom half side and the same goes for the top half sides, and then the top four. But this year however the see-saw has seemed to level off so dramatically that a few wins for relegation bound West Brom has seen them spring up to 11th in the league and safe on 43 points. It has seen Sunderland, who were 8th and thinking of challenging for Europe at one stage plummet down the table into the craziness of the relegation fight. Madness
The only sides that haven't really enjoyed this season as much as has to be the top 4 or so sides. Liverpool had an horrific start to the season being down in the relegation places at one point resulting in Roy Hodgson's inevitable departure and King Kenny to pick up the remains where he could only seem to improve the squad. Manchester City and Tottenham haven't quite lived up to their start of season expectations but will be far more pleased than Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea. Neither have any silverware to their name this season and they don't seem to deserve to win the Premier League this year either, with countless chances for each team to just storm away with the league just thrown away. The relegation battle going on so late on into the season hasn't helped their fixture list in maybe trying to get that 'easy' game but in the Premier League you don't expect that 'easy' game and the standard that has been set in the past has been scrutinised by not one of the top 3 putting a stamp on the Premier League as yet.
The relegation battle immediately relates back to the 2005 relegation battle where it wasn't until the last day with who was definitely going down and the same heroics are going to have to be displayed this time round on the last weekend. With anyone of 6 teams still down there unfortunately the heroics shown early on in the season by Blackpool seem to have dwindled off into what now seems a distant fairytale, can Ian Holloway prove himself as a Premier League manager and rally his troops? Can Avram Grant muster up a team-talk like Scott Parker did at half-time against West Brom to spring a great recovery? So many questions will be asked of these relegation-threatened managers and with those who succeed will come those who don't and have to face the pain of leaving the Premier League.
But for whoever does go down this year they can definitely take away that on any other season they most likely would have stayed up.
But that's Football.
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