The Premier League Thread
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Yes if it stays that way but we will have 3 games in hand to get 1 point to take us above them again.
Chelsea fans won't be the only ones delighted by this scoreline. I'd be dancing if I was a Hull fan. You saw what happened to Spurs last season when the title slipped from them; they shipped five to Newcastle. If Spurs have nothing to play for on the last day, but Hull do, I can see Hull winning that one (at home).
They'll probably be safe by then. It would fit in with all the other excitement we've had this season.
Shame really. They wouldn't be another Leicester type fairy story, but Spurs are not in the same money bags class as Chelsea, City, Man U etc. Pochettino/Toby/Wanyama resentment aside, I'd sooner see Spurs win the league than any of those.
Although, who am I kidding. I hate Spurs really.
Due entirely to being the one non-Saints player to have my boyhood hero worship, ie, Peter Osgood, the only glamour team I don't have a negative thought for is Chelsea. I had a present day Chelsea fan's adoration of Osgood back then. So that kind of does it for me. Not that I care that much, of course. Other teams are not Southampton FC, the only club that is actually worth supporting. The rest barely get a thought. Incidentally, Peter Osgood made my year when he signed for us. Him and KK signing for us were my two jaw dropping transfer moments while following SFC.
No seriously, FLT. I think they may have. In the sense that it is bound to be harder playing at Wembley Stadium [let's face it, they found it very hard before]. It may bring them an advantage should they make it to any cup finals, but the experience so far has tended to overawe them. So, let's suppose that their form dips and they fall back to being a top 6-8 team. That is entirely possible. Spurs are not a team of World Class players, they are a team of highly confident, very good indeed PL players who gel well under Poch. All it takes is for Poch's formula to come slightly unravelled [we know he only has one trick, albeit a very good one], and that eggshell of confidence could be shattered. Given those mitigating circumstances, that could set the cat amongst the pigeons, in terms of players beginning to want out, or being unsettled, or at the very least not buying the story wholeheartedly anymore. Hence, they may have peaked. At the moment they are playing for their boss and for each other. Give them 12 months and that could be different, when they're finding it hard to dig in.
Basically, we know that Spurs are set for a new bigger stadium. But they should have had it 3 years ago, or not have it for another 3-4 seasons, because right now is definitely not the best time for them to be going to somewhere strange [where their record is pretty bad] when their group is there or thereabouts at the peak of their powers. This could cost them a lot of future success. Not that I give a ****, but it is interesting how timing and fate plays a hand sometimes.
There's no guarantee that they'll instantly get on well in their new stadium either, lots of teams struggle when they first move, including Saints.
Indeed. Hence why I mentioned putting off the new stadium for about 3-4 seasons while the players mature a bit and get a bit of success come their way. Because at the moment, all they've done is been a runner up, which looks like being repeated. And as we know to our club's cost, nobody cares who comes second.
This will be the first runner up achieved in this PL era too. They blew that last season.
