Congratulations to Chelsea FC for a well-deserved Premier League championship, as noted many times, they beat United, Liverpool and Arsenal home and away: Yay for them!
I feel bad for United because this was their chance to:
1 - Knock Liverpool off their perch by becoming the winningest English club (they are currently tied with Liverpool for 18 top division titles)
2 - Win an unprecedented 4th straight title
3 - Move on from the loss of CRonaldo and Tevez who have scored some 60 goals between them this season for the bottomless coffers of Real Madrid and Manchester City
I feel particularly bad for Arsenal though because this was a great chance for a young and exciting team to prove they were upto the task of fighting the big boys, sadly comprehensive defeats to United (2-1, 3-1), Chelsea (3-0, 2-0) and Barcelona (4-1) proved they are a level below and losses to Blackburn (2-1), Wigan (3-2) and Spurs (2-1) showed they didn't have the bottle to pull a rabbit out of the hat when it really really mattered.
Key statistic from the season-run-in-listed-on-my-wall-using-post-its:
With 10 games to go, Arsenal were on 58 points, United on 60 and Chelsea on 61. At the end of the season, Arsenal only scored 17 points out of 30, whereas United and Chelsea scored 25 each - therefore Arsenal didn't have the mental fortitude to last the season, United were impressive as usual but paid for an indifferent first half of the campaign and Chelsea were able to put their slump behind with a strong finish, all credit to them.
Congratulations to Spurs for breaking the top4 stronghold with an impressive season featuring regular scintillating forward runs by their array of attacking talent throughout the year.
Its great that Liverpool completely crashed out of everything this season, with pathetic displays and not bad luck the main reason - yes much as I hate to admit to a spot of schadenfreude, I take particular pleasure in their downfall this season (only this season though, am no Liverpool-hater) because of their poor attitude last season when they failed to give United due credit (oh we had too many draws and that's why we lost - yeah right!). Hehehehehehehe, its so funny its tragic: Rafa proclaiming a charge to the title this season on the back of last season's showing to backtracking to a "unrealistic expectations" defence was particularly sad. I feel bad for Fernando Torres, he's spending the best years of his life winning nothing. I hope he goes somewhere else to be rewarded a bit better. But if its loyalty that he values most, then well, all the best. The only reason I don't wish Gerrard left too is because he's won everything with Liverpool except the league and maybe just maybe if that does happen someday, it would be something very very special.
Sad end to the season for City, Fulham and Villa - maybe next time :)
Yes I am becoming a little lazy now, so I will stop right here!
Bring on 2010-2011!!!!
I feel bad for United because this was their chance to:
1 - Knock Liverpool off their perch by becoming the winningest English club (they are currently tied with Liverpool for 18 top division titles)
2 - Win an unprecedented 4th straight title
3 - Move on from the loss of CRonaldo and Tevez who have scored some 60 goals between them this season for the bottomless coffers of Real Madrid and Manchester City
I feel particularly bad for Arsenal though because this was a great chance for a young and exciting team to prove they were upto the task of fighting the big boys, sadly comprehensive defeats to United (2-1, 3-1), Chelsea (3-0, 2-0) and Barcelona (4-1) proved they are a level below and losses to Blackburn (2-1), Wigan (3-2) and Spurs (2-1) showed they didn't have the bottle to pull a rabbit out of the hat when it really really mattered.
Key statistic from the season-run-in-listed-on-my-wall-using-post-its:
With 10 games to go, Arsenal were on 58 points, United on 60 and Chelsea on 61. At the end of the season, Arsenal only scored 17 points out of 30, whereas United and Chelsea scored 25 each - therefore Arsenal didn't have the mental fortitude to last the season, United were impressive as usual but paid for an indifferent first half of the campaign and Chelsea were able to put their slump behind with a strong finish, all credit to them.
Congratulations to Spurs for breaking the top4 stronghold with an impressive season featuring regular scintillating forward runs by their array of attacking talent throughout the year.
Its great that Liverpool completely crashed out of everything this season, with pathetic displays and not bad luck the main reason - yes much as I hate to admit to a spot of schadenfreude, I take particular pleasure in their downfall this season (only this season though, am no Liverpool-hater) because of their poor attitude last season when they failed to give United due credit (oh we had too many draws and that's why we lost - yeah right!). Hehehehehehehe, its so funny its tragic: Rafa proclaiming a charge to the title this season on the back of last season's showing to backtracking to a "unrealistic expectations" defence was particularly sad. I feel bad for Fernando Torres, he's spending the best years of his life winning nothing. I hope he goes somewhere else to be rewarded a bit better. But if its loyalty that he values most, then well, all the best. The only reason I don't wish Gerrard left too is because he's won everything with Liverpool except the league and maybe just maybe if that does happen someday, it would be something very very special.
Sad end to the season for City, Fulham and Villa - maybe next time :)
Yes I am becoming a little lazy now, so I will stop right here!
Bring on 2010-2011!!!!
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