Who is going to have their party first this season? Could be United unless they overturn their Olympiakos deficit Spurs can't let the gap between themselves and dippers get any bigger Dippers have exited the cups and are pretty much nailed on for fourth with nothing else to play for Arsenal have Feb fever and could have their annual March meltdown
Gonna be United. Spurs and dippers will both want to finish in the top 4. The Dippers even have a chance of going higher if they continue their good run of form, so its all to play for those two. Arsenal, while I think they will trail away in the title race, will try to keep up as best they can and will also not want to slip in to 4th and have to play that qualifying round in the CL next year. United are realistically out of the top 4 running, out of both cups, and unless they can overturn that 2-0 deficit they are out the CL. Even if they do manage to get past Olympiakos, do you see them beating someone like Real, Barca, us, Bayern etc in the next round?
Arsenal are out of CL in the first knockout round for the fourth season running, they just can't beat big sides in Europe, but they have a home tie to Everton in the cup. Maybe this year could be their year
Utd look gone for all money. Think they should have got shot of Rooney, not given him all those wages, that will bite them hard. Mata needs to play behind Van Persie to get value for the outlay, wasted on the wing. Rooney would have been a good fit for us, but took the easy money. Dippers are looking very assured. BR has done wonders with them and they are even a chance for PL . Top 4 certainty. Voyeurs boys should get top 4, they are short of power and grit, but on their day play great football. Spuds have a major battle to salvage anything. It is clear that the players and not the manager was always the problem there.A complete rethink is needed or they will just keep repeating the same pattern next year. Chelsea are hanging in well and will be 1st or 2nd barring a catastrophe. Strikers, midfield and CD need boosting to what should then be a serious Team to challenge on all fronts. We are well on the way to the stability we have needed.
Could player power take hold at United for the second leg v Olympiakos. A bit like us when we played Valencia and terry and drogba ignored Avb's tactics and we won 3-0
don't think they have that unity amongst the players. If I were RvP I would be pissed for the amount Wayne is making over me. Guess Wayne's contract would put them into more trouble than any strength.
We've drawn the best team in it for 3 out of those 4 years. The price we pay for not winning our groups
So would other be Chelsea? Its been a great and interesting season overall so far though, Im personally pissed we got knocked out domestic cups early but oh well
didnt you bottle it all the way to the thursday night cup last year ? we havent sunk that low yet . Thank god.
