1. Manchester United 2. Manchester City 3. Chelsea 4. Arsenal 5. Tottenham 6. Liverpool 7. Newcastle 8. Everton 9. QPR 10. Sunderland 11. Stoke 12. Fulham 13. Aston Villa 14. West Brom 15. Wigan 16. West Ham 17. Southampton 18. Reading 19. Swansea 20. Norwich
1. City 2. Chelsea 3. Utd 4. Arsenal 5. Spurs 6. Liverpool 7. Newcastle 8. Sunderland 9. Everton 10. West Ham 11. QPR 12. Fulham 13. Villa 14. Stoke 15. Reading 16. West Brom 17. Southampton/Wigan/Norwich/Swansea can't decide on the bottom 3
My reasoning: they will hang tight with a lot of teams, and perhaps even steal draws against teams they have no business stealing draws against, but staying up these days is largely a product of one's ability to generate wins...something they did very well last year (no team had fewer draws, and they tied Blackpool for the most losses among the top six), but I'm not convinced that they'll score enough to pick up wins against the bottom half. Similar in that vein to Villa last year.
I think Villa will do better than a few of you think. They suffered big time from the losses of Bent and Petrov. Lambert has already made a few astute signings... Personally I am prety confident that they will stay up.
It's very difficult to decide until Sep 1 when all the clubs have made all their summer signings, at this stage I would suggest this 1. Manchester City 2. Manchester United 3. Arsenal 4. Liverpool 5. Chelsea 6. Tottenham 7. Newcastle 8. Everton 9. Fulham 10. Aston Villa 11. QPR 12. Southampton 13. Sunderland 14. Stoke 15. Swansea 16. Norwich 17. Wigan 18. Reading 19. West Ham 20. West Brom Pick any 3 from Stoke down.
1-Chelsea 2-Man City 3-Man Utd 4-Arsenal 5-Newcastle 6-Spurs 7-Everton 8-Sunderland 9-Fulham 10-Liverpool 11-Villa 12-Saints 13-QPR 14-Stoke 15-West Ham 16-WBA 17-Reading 18-Swansea 19-Norwich 20-Wigan
1) Man City 2) Chelsea 3) Man Utd 4) Arsenal 5) Newcastle 6) Everton 7) Liverpool 8) Sunderland 9) Aston Villa 10) Tottenham 11) Fulham 12) QPR 13) West Ham 14) Norwich 15) Stoke 16) Southampton 17) Swansea 18) Reading 19) Wigan 20) West Brom
1,City 2,United 3,Chelsea 4,Arsenal 5,Liverpool 6,Spurs 7,Everton 8,Villa 9,Fulham 10,Reading 11,WBA 12,Newcastle 13,Stoke 14,Sunderland 15,Saints 16,Wigan 17,QPR 18,West Ham 19,Norwich 20,Swansea
Right, if I get any of this right i'll be astounded... 1-Manchester City 2-Manchester United 3-Arsenal 4-Chelsea 5-Liverpool 6-Everton 7-Sunderland 8-Aston Villa 9-Tottenham 10-Fulham 11-Stoke 12-Newcastle 13-West Ham 14-Wigan 15-Reading 16-QPR 17-Norwich 18-West Brom 19-Southampton (battening down the hatches, but at least one of the promoted sides WILL go down this season) 20-Swansea
(in no particular order) Top 2 - Manure and Citeh Fighting for 3rd/4th - Arsenal & Chelsea The race for 5th (Europa) - Spurs, Newcastle, Everton, Liverpool Mid-Table obscurity - Fulham, Sunderland, West Brom, Stoke, Villa Relegation battle, with 4 winners and 3 losers - West Ham, Norwich, Saints, Reading, QPR, Wigan, Swansea
1) Man City 2) Chelsea 3) Man Utd 4) Arsenal 5) Spurs 6) Liverpool 15) QPR 16) Villa 17) Saints 18) Wigan 19) Reading 20) Swansea
1. Man United 2. Chelsea 3. City 4. Arsenal 5. Spurs 6. Liverpool 7. Everton 8. Newcastle 9. QPR 10. Villa 11. West Ham 12. Sunderland 13. Stoke 14. Fulham 15. Southampton 16. Swansea 17. Reading 18. West Brom 19. Wigan 20. Norwich
I really feel that Stoke will have a mare this season. Have backed Pulis toi be first out. Think he has had his time now.
I'd ordinarily not do this until 1 September, for obviosu reasons. But what the hell... Man City Man Utd Chelsea Spurs Liverpool Arsenal Everton Newcastle Villa Fulham Stoke QPR Norwich Sunderland West Ham WBA Southampton Swansea Reading Wigan
Thought I'd give this a bump considering we're over half way through the season. Looks like Swansea and west brom were underated with Newcastle vastly overrated!
