Premiership 16/17 Season

[TylerB]

 

If, if, if!

 

Are you saying it isn't then?

[cheshirevaliant]

Are you saying it isn't then?

 

It's open in so far as nobody has won it yet, but to suggest Chelsea, a team who have won 13 of their last 14 are not clear favourites is just crazy. They look the only team who can comfortably beat the mid to lower end teams every time they play them.

[For Us All]

Ten points separate Chelski and Man.Utd.Anyone,in my opinion can win it out of those top six clubs.

[For Us All]

I 'appy to be here at Hull etc.

 

I hate to be pessimistic but it might be a case of "To Hull And Back"?

[TylerB]

It's open in so far as nobody has won it yet, but to suggest Chelsea, a team who have won 13 of their last 14 are not clear favourites is just crazy. They look the only team who can comfortably beat the mid to lower end teams every time they play them.

 

Clear favourites that are less than 2 wins ahead of the rest of the pack. Calling them clear favourites is what is really crazy.

[Robbie Earle's Perm]

Are you saying it isn't then?

 

Liverpool will not win the league. It isn't wide open it will be won by Chelsea or if they implode City.

[old sage]

So long as Sjoke never get a sniff I couldn't give a monkey's. The one thing which I do know is that if those who are in charge don't stop looking solely after themselves the English football pyramid as we know it is doomed!.

[JOHNNYAITCH]

Clear favourites that are less than 2 wins ahead of the rest of the pack. Calling them clear favourites is what is really crazy.

 

What's the criteria for being clear favourites ? I think this far into the season with the results they have had and being top and with the football they have played and the resources at their disposal it's reasonable to make them clear favourites...someone has to be after all. The 'odds' are they will win it cos of all that's happened so far

[davidatpreston]

Any of the top 6 have a good chance in the best title race for years.

 

When the European games restart, Liverpool and Tottenham will have the luxury of no long trips which will make it even more open.

[TylerB]

Liverpool will not win the league. It isn't wide open it will be won by Chelsea or if they implode City.

 

Weren't you one of those that were also saying Liverpool wouldn't even make the top 4 the season they actually finished runners-up? I take everything you say in this thread with more than a pinch of salt.

[TylerB]

What's the criteria for being clear favourites ? I think this far into the season with the results they have had and being top and with the football they have played and the resources at their disposal it's reasonable to make them clear favourites...someone has to be after all. The 'odds' are they will win it cos of all that's happened so far

 

For me any clear favourites would be miles better than the others. Chelsea aren't. They've had an incredible run of form and yet if they lose at Anfield in the near future they'll be 2 points ahead of them in the table if they both win their upcoming games.

[JOHNNYAITCH]

Glad to see West Ham get stuffed. Hope they go down. As for the title, I wouldn't rule out Spurs either.

 

West Ham fans that have stuck with the club for decades and generations thru thick and thin don't deserve that..have issues with the owners and the way its run, with the way they got the new stadium etc but why should the supporters suffer. And yes I know some of them can be a bit 'tasty' (as they might say) but not the old chap who has been going for 50+ years and so on

[JOHNNYAITCH]

For me any clear favourites would be miles better than the others. Chelsea aren't. They've had an incredible run of form and yet if they lose at Anfield in the near future they'll be 2 points ahead of them in the table if they both win their upcoming games.

 

'miles better' is subjective and anyway the table does not lie..they are where they are cos they have accumulated more points than anyone else and so deserve to be clear favourites. Ifs don't come into it for me. the so called best team does not always win the title, the team that gets the results does.

[davidatpreston]

West Ham fans that have stuck with the club for decades and generations thru thick and thin don't deserve that..have issues with the owners and the way its run, with the way they got the new stadium etc but why should the supporters suffer. And yes I know some of them can be a bit 'tasty' (as they might say) but not the old chap who has been going for 50+ years and so on

 

 

Whats all the thick and thin nonsense about? They've had far more success than they deserve, and fans of about 70 of the 92 league clubs are far more 'long-suffering'.

 

Many will remember when they should have been relegated for the Tevez and Mascharino affair but were let off and Sheffield United sent down instead. They have always had preferential treatment.

 

Far too many (though not all) of their fans are generally ignorant louts who have a deserved bad reputation. If there really are fans of theirs who have watched for 50+ years, then do us all a favour, them especially, and have them sectioned.

 

Don't use 'tasty' as a euphemism for 'dangerous, very violent, cretinous and unlawful' either if you don't mind.

 

A filthy grabbing club run by a man who has been in prison and made a lot of his money from what many see as hard core porn, and supporting the Tories, and many say cost the taxpayer many millions of pounds that could have funded the NHS by getting the stadium in a deal many see as very dubious from his Tory friends.

 

The rest of his board - the lovely Karren Brady (!) and Gold... no comment.

[davidatpreston]

Weren't you one of those that were also saying Liverpool wouldn't even make the top 4 the season they actually finished runners-up? I take everything you say in this thread with more than a pinch of salt.

 

Just this thread ?