Premier League 2022/23

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2325

Arsenal’s title victories in 1989 and 1998 were not expected.

Before the 88/89 season Liverpool were clear favourites, with probably Everton and Manchester United considered second and third in no particular order.

Arsenal would have been in a group with Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest making up the 4-6 bracket of most likely lads.

Before the 1997/98 season Manchester United were clear favourites but Arsenal would have been considered behind Liverpool (who had signed Paul Ince) and possibly Newcastle or even a rising Chelsea in the pecking order.

Arsenal had an ageing back four, Paul Merson had left, Ian Wright was getting on in years, and the players who had come in were unproven in England (Overmars, Petit) or unknown (Vieira), and not a whole lot was known about the manager and how he would deal with his first full season in English football. It had a lot of the ingredients for a disappointing season.

2326

Not panicking but officialy worried. Forest were rooted bottom from much of the season but began to find their feet and all of a sudden found themselves sitting pretty in 14th. Injuries and shit signings in January (Shelvey, Wood, Ayew) and the worst away form in any league in the world, along with other sides beginning to improve after their January changes, has Forest beginning looking like sitting ducks a little.

Home form has been superb though, only Utd have a better unbeaten stretch at home.

Run in fixtures for the greatest relegation dogfight of all time

Crystal Palace

Current position: 12th (27 points, played 26)

Next four league fixtures:

Brighton and Hove Albion (A) - Wed 15 March

Arsenal (A) - Sun 19 March

Leicester City (H) - Sat 1 April

Leeds United (A) - Sat 8 April

Final four fixtures:

Tottenham Hotspur (A) - Sat 6 May

Bournemouth (H) - Sat 13 May

Fulham (A) - Sat 20 May

Nottingham Forest (H) - Sun 28 May

Wolverhampton Wanderers

Current position: 13th (27 points, played 26)

Next four league fixtures:

Newcastle United (A) - Sun 12 March

Leeds United (H) - Sat 18 March

Nottingham Forest (A) - Sat 1 April

Chelsea (H) - Sat 8 April

Final four fixtures:

Aston Villa (H) - Sat 6 May

Manchester United (A) - Sat 13 May

Everton (H) - Sat 20 May

Arsenal (A) - Sun 28 May

Nottingham Forest

Current position: 14th (26 points, played 26)

Next four league fixtures:

Newcastle United (H) - Fri 17 March

Wolverhampton Wanderers (H) - Sat 1 April

Leeds United (A) - Tues 4 April

Aston Villa (A) - Sat 8 April

Final four fixtures:

Southampton (H) - Sat 6 May

Chelsea (A) - Sat 13 May

Arsenal (H) - Sat 20 May

Crystal Palace (A) - Sun 28 May

Everton

Current position: 15th (25 points, played 27)

Next four league fixtures

Chelsea (A) - Sat 18 March

Tottenham Hotspur (H) - Mon 3 April

Manchester United (A) - Sat 8 April

Fulham (H) - Sat 15 April

Final four fixtures:

Brighton and Hove Albion (A) - Sat 6 May

Manchester City (H) - Sat 13 May

Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) - Sat 20 May

Bournemouth (H) - Sun 28 May

Leicester City

Current position: 16th (24 points, played 26)

Next four league fixtures:

Brentford (A) - Sat 18 March

Crystal Palace (A) - Sat 1 April

Aston Villa (H) - Tues 4 April

Bournemouth (H) - Sat 8 April

Final four fixtures:

Fulham (A) - Sat 6 May

Liverpool (H) - Sat 13 May

Newcastle United (A) - Sat 20 May

West Ham United (H) - Sun 28 May

Bournemouth

Current position: 17th (24 points, played 26)

Next four league fixtures

Aston Villa (A) - Sat 18 March

Fulham (H) - Sat 1 April

Brighton and Hove Albion (H) - Tues 4 April

Leicester City (A) - Sat 8 April

Final four fixtures:

Chelsea (H) - Sat 6 May

Crystal Palace (A) - Sat 13 May

Manchester United (H) - Sat 20 May

Everton (A) - Sun 28 May

West Ham United

Current position: 18th (23 points, played 25)

Next four league fixtures:

Aston Villa (H) - Sun 12 March

Southampton (H) - Sun 2 April

Newcastle United (H) - Weds 5 April

Fulham (A) - Sat 8 April

Final four league fixtures:

Manchester United (H) - Sat 6 May

Brentford (A) - Sat 13 May

Leeds United (H) - Sat 20 May

Leicester City (A) - Sun 28 May

Leeds United

Current position: 19th (23 points, 25 played)

Next four league fixtures:

Wolverhampton Wanderers (A) - Sat 18 March

Arsenal (A) - Sat 1 April

Nottingham Forest (H) - Tues 4 April

Crystal Palace (A) - Sat 8 April

Final four fixtures:

Manchester City (A) - Sat 6 May

Newcastle United (H) - Sat 13 May

West Ham United (A) - Sat 20 May

Tottenham Hotspur (H) - Sun 28 May

Southampton

Current position: 20th (21 points, played 25)

Next four league fixtures

Manchester United (A) - Sun 12 March

Brentford (H) - Wed 15 March

Tottenham (H) - Sat 18 March

West Ham United (A) - Sun 2 April

Final four fixtures:

Nottingham Forest (A) - Sat 6 May

Fulham (H) - Sat 13 May

Brighton and Hove Albion (A) - Sat 20 May

Liverpool (H) - Sun 28 May

2327

I think Fulham, Brentford and the Saudis are the teams you want to be playing at this stage of the season.

Aston Villa are likely to join that bracket soon, Chelsea appear to have had a mini–reawakening but how long that lasts is questionable.

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Alf Ramsay played on that Spurs team you reference actually. He came up before in a question about league winners as player and manager . Surely a refined question in there about first season champions

2329

I can see Brighton going on the beach in another couple of weeks too.

2330

I think Forest will survive. The following 3 teams will be relegated
West Ham
Everton
Leeds

2331

It’s Bournemouth, Forest and one other. As it has been all season. Am worried for Ammers but we just about better than most of rest down there

2332

Everton? Not a hope. Nor the hammers. Southampton, leeds and someone else for me.

2333

Hammers are shit. They were lucky to beat Forest 4-0

2334

West Ham surely *too good to go down. If they win the Europa Conference League will they be in next seasons Europa League?

Bournemouth, Southampton and Leeds for me.

*This was said in 2002-03 of course when they went down with 42 points.

2335

Leicester look like a team in freefall. Reading in the Sunday Times there today, that they’ve lost last 4 and seems to be a lot of anti Brendan Rodgers sentiment there

2336

The players are all piss heads according to my sources on the ground.

2337

Shur brighton is already on the beach

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2338

I was expecting @Cheasty to come back with some incredible anecdote about the beach in Brighton.

2339

It’s full of stones and is located beside where the IRA nearly killed Thatcher.

The New York neighbourhood of the same name was/is also a notorious hotspot for Russian mafia.

2340

Crystal Palace and Southampton both losing.

I reckon Southampton might yet get something from Brentford, so lump on Brentford.

2341

Outstanding late drama in the battle to avoid relegation as Tottenham do a Tottenham and surrender a 3-1 lead at The Dell. A late Southampton penalty gives them a 3-3 draw and they’re still here and still fighting.

An utterly monumental six pointer in two weeks’ time as the Hammers play the Saints.

Leeds gain revenge for Wolves buggering them in 1972 with a big win at Molineux.

Leicester took a point at Brentford and Bournemouth lost at Villa Park. Bournemouth have a nice looking fixture at home to Fulham next day out however.

Right now you would not want to be Everton or Nottingham Forest. Or West Ham. And you wouldn’t want to be Bournemouth or Southampton either. And who would would want to be a sinking Wolves or managerless Crystal Palace? And even though Leeds and Leicester took points today, do you want to be them? I don’t think so.

I expect Chelsea will knock four or five past Everton in the evening game.

2342

That’s an outstanding round up. I’d pay to read it.

2343

You can still pay if you like. I’ve left you my bank account details on a PM there.

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2344

A big 2 points lost late on for Conte’s Spurs
It really does seem logical to move him on as soon as possible, it’s clearly all over