NickF wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 12:08 am
That is no different from any other league in any other sport. With the premier league the top 6 is going to pretty much always be the same just in a different order. If that bores you then you should probably give up watching any sport as the richest will alway prevail. This year is a bit different as City are running away with it, however they finished third last year (3pts ahead of us), not their fault we have regressed badly and they have a top manager (who arguably we could have got).
A couple of seasons ago you had Leicester winning it and tonight Burnley are 4th, so not really sure what you want.
Totally agree with your point about Arsenal as that is exactly the reason I don't go anymore.
Maybe you're generally right, I just think it has got worse over the last 10-15 years where the money has got to obscene levels with the oligarchs and oil money pouring in, if Jack Walker was alive today his £250M 'fortune' would look paltry and unlikely to be enough to buy a place in the top 6 let alone a title.
Leicester was a fluke, a one in 20 year event, which teams have won the title since we last won it apart from them? - City, Chelsea and United. Burnley won't finish 4th, it will likely be one of Arsenal, Liverpool or Spurs.
I was looking earlier at the various league tables since we last won the title, we have been remarkably consistent to not finish below 5th for 22 seasons, the problem is of course not just that we've never won it, but only in 07/08 did we really put up any sort of challenge since 2004/5, how does anyone retain any sort of interest (let alone optimism!) when we are so predictable?.
I know we had a lean spell broadly from the mid-70's to the mid-80's but after that we at least won a few titles in between 4th place, 10th place etc. finishes, what we have have now is just tedious and it feels like we are actually slipping into something worse than a perennial 4th place club, maybe we're now a perennial 5th/6th place club.
Klopp is Wenger-Lite as a manager, but twice as obnoxious and full of shit as a person. What a cunty thing to say to an interviewer because they didn't agree with his view of a controversial penno - if Wenger had said that there would be people on here suffering from cranial ruptures ffs.
