Owzat wrote:In all honesty the league is ***** at the moment, that we are still not mathematically safe shows just how cr@p the Premiership is. A mere 18 points separating 4th from 18th is a joke
I don't agree that the league is sh##e, really.
The bottom to upper mid table teams are decent enough (obviously relatively speaking!) when compared to their counterparts in other European Leagues, and the top three are all great sides.
The big problem with this year's league is that the sides that are in 4th, 5th and 6th (i.e. those clubs who theoretically should be pretty good but slightly off the pace of the Championship) are in fact very mediocre (relatively speaking) and aren't much better than the mid table sides.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the top 3 sides, nor the mid table sides. The real problem is that Liverpool and Newcastle have been exceptionally poor this year, and instead of having the 4th and 5th teams hoovering at the high 50s points at this stage, Liverpool and Newcastle have been languishing in the high 40s.
I don't think the league has been bad this season and the likes of Fulham, Middlesboro, Villa and Birmingham probably compare favourably with their counterparts in Spain and Italy, but the failings of Liverpool and Newcastle, in my opinion, gives the impression that the Premiership is weaker than it is.
I mean, Man UTD and Chelsea have lost to the likes of Charlton, Boro, Fulham, Southampton, Wolves etc, but the likes of Newcastle and Liverpool haven't performed that well against the big three.