Craig Benn
Senior Member
This season the English Premier League is shaping up to be the most interesting yet. With Alex Ferguson (aka the dark lord) finally retiring during the close season (I'm sure there's a painting of him somewhere like Dorien Grey) and most of the big teams switching managers there were no certainties.
Manchester United (Fergies old team) and Everton (the blue deluded part of Liverpool) have always had a North Korea/Iran axis of evil relationship - upcoming talent like Wayne Rooney flowed one way, while players not good enough for ManU who wanted to play and earn for a few years before retirement - Phil Neville for example - flowed the other.
Ferguson's last act was to choose the Everton manager David Moyes (aka the Moysiah) to fill his shoes. Personally I think someone with a huge ego was needed to replace Fergie who although not a nice human being by any means has been the most successful manager in English football by a huge margin. Only Jose Mourinho (Chelsea) has that kind of ego.
Things aren't going too well for Moyes - 15 games into the season (of 38), Man United are 9th (of 20) and 13 points behind the leaders, consistently behind Everton who beat them recently. Moyes lost the goodwill of the Everton fans by trying to recruit some of his ex-players and his replacement - Martinez - has played good looking attacking football.
My team -Liverpool- are a bit of an enigma. Currently second behind Arsenal (sometimes known as the gooners and sometimes as the arse) we have the most prolific scorer in the league - Suarez - despite him missing the first six games for biting. He's the sort of player you'd love to hate if he wore any other shirt but by god he's our tw%t and we love him. However we have a couple of key injuries over the xmas period where English teams play a lot of games and tough matches coming up - I think we'll drop some places.
However the good thing about the league is that anyone can beat anyone - it's not utterly dominated by one or two teams like many other leagues. Nonetheless over the 38 games, the strength in depth you get when bankrolled by billionaires tends to show. My pick for top 4 spots is therefore fairly conservative-
1. Arsenal (the most creative and showing the most consistency at the moment).
2. Man City (Loads of money but lack that team ethos)
3. Chelski (I rate Mourinho, but far too many old faces or key players not replaced from his first run)
4. Liverpool (We seriously lack strength in depth but luckily our nearest rivals - Everton, Man United, Tottenham have their own problems. Of the three I'd say Everton would be the most likely to nick it from us.)
Give me your prediction and let us know who you support -
Manchester United (Fergies old team) and Everton (the blue deluded part of Liverpool) have always had a North Korea/Iran axis of evil relationship - upcoming talent like Wayne Rooney flowed one way, while players not good enough for ManU who wanted to play and earn for a few years before retirement - Phil Neville for example - flowed the other.
Ferguson's last act was to choose the Everton manager David Moyes (aka the Moysiah) to fill his shoes. Personally I think someone with a huge ego was needed to replace Fergie who although not a nice human being by any means has been the most successful manager in English football by a huge margin. Only Jose Mourinho (Chelsea) has that kind of ego.
Things aren't going too well for Moyes - 15 games into the season (of 38), Man United are 9th (of 20) and 13 points behind the leaders, consistently behind Everton who beat them recently. Moyes lost the goodwill of the Everton fans by trying to recruit some of his ex-players and his replacement - Martinez - has played good looking attacking football.
My team -Liverpool- are a bit of an enigma. Currently second behind Arsenal (sometimes known as the gooners and sometimes as the arse) we have the most prolific scorer in the league - Suarez - despite him missing the first six games for biting. He's the sort of player you'd love to hate if he wore any other shirt but by god he's our tw%t and we love him. However we have a couple of key injuries over the xmas period where English teams play a lot of games and tough matches coming up - I think we'll drop some places.
However the good thing about the league is that anyone can beat anyone - it's not utterly dominated by one or two teams like many other leagues. Nonetheless over the 38 games, the strength in depth you get when bankrolled by billionaires tends to show. My pick for top 4 spots is therefore fairly conservative-
1. Arsenal (the most creative and showing the most consistency at the moment).
2. Man City (Loads of money but lack that team ethos)
3. Chelski (I rate Mourinho, but far too many old faces or key players not replaced from his first run)
4. Liverpool (We seriously lack strength in depth but luckily our nearest rivals - Everton, Man United, Tottenham have their own problems. Of the three I'd say Everton would be the most likely to nick it from us.)
Give me your prediction and let us know who you support -
