Friday 5 August 2022

Hey Ho, Let's Go Premier League

 Ah, it's the dawn of the new Football Season which brings with it a sense of optimism, hope and expectation unless you are a fan of one of the teams who will face months of being mocked when they go into work on a Monday morning because they have suffered yet another humiliating defeat.
The Premier League title is only destined for Manchester City, Liverpool or Chelsea and Arsenal, Tottenham and Man Ure will be fighting it out for that fourth place and the final berth in the lucrative Champions League so the top of the table won't be that vastly different to last seasons so the real battle will be at the bottom where it is perm 3 from about 8 who could fall out of the Premier League.
I am expecting to see the new boys Fulham and Bournemouth swapping places not so proudly in the bottom three all season and joined by Brentford when the gong sounds in May but you can't discount Brighton, Leeds or Aston Villa who have managed to escape relegation recently but look a bit below standard.
Southampton will flirt with the drop and then pull it out the bag with 5 games to go as they always do and as much as i would like to see the back of Everton, they will do enough to avoid it as i suspect Nottingham Forest will although that will be by the skin of their teeth.
So it's full steam ahead to November when the League pauses for the World Cup in the desert and then back again for the Boxing Day fixtures and the first stop is tonight at Selhurst Park where my team Arsenal, with a striker called Jesus and a continental midfielder called Vieira who will take on Crystal Palace managed by our previous continental midfielder called Vieira.

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