Sunderland V Sp*rs
ended goalless meaning that Sp*rs currently sit third. It was a game that had
0-0 written all over it after about 30 minutes. The baton now passes to us in
today’s fixture against Man City. A win gives us a two point advantage and a
draw puts us back in third. One side that we need to be mindful of in the shake
up for 3rd & 4th is Newcastle who have hung on all
season and present a threat to ECL qualification.
What the SAFC v THFC
game showed is the poverty of this current Premier League; it was awful.
A cursory comparison
between teams in the Premier era makes grim reading for the current state of
the game.
The Man Utd of 99
would definitely beat the current side, The Newcastle of Keegan, The Chelsea of
Mourinho, the Villa of Atkinson, the Blackburn of Dalgleish, The Liverpool of
Fowler, McManaman, Owen etc would batter the Liverpool of 2012. Certainly the
Invincibles would put the current Arsenal team to the sword. Even teams like Middlesbrough
and Bolton had some decent players.
It is in this
environment that we see a league that is awash with mediocrity, a league where
O’Neill, McLeish and the like are content to play for a draw every week.
To win a tough
league, like Arsenal have done in the past, makes that achievement even more
meaningful, but to win a poor league carries no less sense of Triumph. Should
United, as looks likely, win the League, Ferguson won’t give a monkeys about
the perceived quality of the league.
Therefore it’s a
great time to try to take a hold of this league in the forthcoming season. A
chance to impose some quality and endeavour. Winning the title in a race with a
quality field is one thing, but winning it regardless of your peers is still a
prize we need to strive for in 2012/13.
Later today we play
a team who have the financial resources to become that club that takes the
Premier League in their grip in the future. We position ourselves at the other
end of the spectrum in our own quest to return to the top.
Almost a game
between the two potential faces of the future.
Comments
Post a Comment
so I said...