Sod the Premier League table. Let's take a look at the Expectations Table, adjusted for well, expectations. twoht puts Brighton top and Chelsea are rank (bottom).
, didn’t we? And when they lost 9-0 at Liverpool at the end of August and sacked Scott Parker , we all thought they were burnt toast, didn’t we? And when they appointed a caretaker into the position and made him permanent manager because of a decent run of form, we all thought they were a piece of charcoal in the shape of a slice of bread, didn’t we? Yet here we are at the end of the season, and Bournemouth are 14th, five points clear of the relegation places even after losing their last four...
When on their game, Manchester United had it in them to look like potential title challengers in passing, but they also had a tendency to suddenly and dramatically self-combust. Their 7-0 Premier League defeat at Anfield was a generationally bad performance and result, and they conceded six at home to City in the league too, while their capitulation to Sevilla in the Europa League was all the stranger for how brightly they’d started the first leg of the tie.
But Forest’s owner Angelos Marinakis, a man with a reputation for having a fairly short fuse with managers, held his cool, Cooper held onto his job , and eventually Forest started to pull clear of the relegation positions.
Some chose to interpret this as an act of desperation, a reflex reaction to happier days, but Hodgson’s return did the trick. He had 10 games left to ‘save’ their season up his return and did it with room to spare. Indeed, it all ended so comfortably that he has been offered another year to try and continue this improvement.
James Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Youri Tielemans in their team may deserve the comeuppance that they get. But even at that stage of the season, Southampton could still be saved. They may have been bottom of the table, but they were only three points from safety, with 15 games to play. Narrow escapes with relegation have the capacity to be transformational, should the club concerned actually learn the lessons from such a close shave, but in the cases of both Everton and Leeds, nothing positive seemed to be learned from 2021/22.
Relegation feels likely to cause the club problems because it’s so difficult to say what this team will even look like come the start of next season.
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