So 21.6 teams would think they would go up, and 12.96 teams actually would? ****! Not sure we're good enough to manage top 7 next year to stay up!!
Getting back to serious points.... I can't wait for the day when one Sunday morning a big cattle truck pulls up outside your house one sunny Sunday morning when you're asleep upstairs. Rafa will climb out of the driver's seat and release a hoard of horny bulls from the back of the truck, open your front door and release the running of the bulls up your stairs into your bedroom. All the while Rafa will be screaming through your letterbox........ "EEZ ZAT FOOKIN ENTERTAINING ENOUGH FOR YOU HANK? EEZ IT? EEZ IT? AT LEAST YOUR WIFE CAN FINALLY SEE A BIC COCK FOR ONCE. FACT!"
I don't get why Rafa didn't at least test it first. The problem with doing what he's done - 6 at the back, in essence, from Craven Cottage and on - is it's hard to then change when it's (sort of) working. I'd have been "right, I'm the best manager in this division, I've spent a load on PL quality players, I'm going to frighten the league to death in the first half a dozen games then ease back a bit from there". Go 3-4-3 or some crazy-assed nonsense from the very first match and literally batter the opposition to submission. Then ease back, go 4-4-2 and put the kettle on.