So as the FA Cup celebrations die down, it's time to reflect on the season that was;
The Good.
Man City, Pellegrini and Yaya - What can you say, another league title and a league cup to match. Strong, dominant, at times careless, but a pleasure to watch and worthy champions.
Arsenal and Ramsey - Another top 4 finish, another year of Champions League football but more importantly a trophy, Arsenal should move onwards and upwards from here and it will be spearheaded by Ramsey, fantastic season for the young lad, would have possibly been player of the season if it wasn't for injuries.
Liverpool and Rodgers, Gerrard and SSS - Finished trophyless after bottling it with only a few games to go. However you can not take away the fantastic job Rodgers did, the progress they have made and the season Suarez, Sturridge, Stirling and Gerrard have all had.
Palace and Pulis - The favourites to go down at one point but a fantastic season earned them a mighty respectable mid table finish. It is to be seen if they can achieve it again next season and if Pulis will stay. Great effort.
Other notable candidates - Everton top 4 push, Southampton's youngsters and Sunderland's wonder escape.
The Bad.
Manchester United - Nobody would have predicted they would fall from grace so spectacularly. No Champions League, no trophies, no desire.
Tottenham - They thought they would be alright after cashing in on Bale, £110 million spent and nowhere near the quality needed to finish in the top 4. They will thank United for being worse, enabling them to finish 6th and get Europe.
Cardiff and Taan - Awful season, club being overshadowed by another crackpot owner.
The Ugly
Mourinho - Came back to a heroes reception, failed to deliver on the pitch and has become a caricature of himself off it, the mind games are tired and boring and has lowered to all out insulting people now. No longer the special one. Boring brand of football.
Moyes - This one writes itself.
Sherwood - Golden chance to become the new kid on the block. Spent his time in charge playing a clown for the TV cameras, abusing his own players and acting as if he was bigger than his club.
Anymore?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
posted on 18/5/14
remember saying at Christmas i actually thought Sunderland looked most likely of the bottom 3 to survive, having said hat i was pretty convinced West Ham were going down then
CC final likely distracted Sunderland, have to wnder if they wuld have done a Birmingham had they actually won it though?
posted on 18/5/14
clearly i'm biased but imo Spurs were the biggest underachievers, especially when you look at just how disastrously AVB's tenure ended (not managing a shot on target at home )
not denying we (Chelsea) under-achieved but we did at least get top
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Even though you could class both clubs as underachieving, I think you both finished roughly were you would expect to finish. Yes Chelsea could have done more and Spurs with all the money spent should have certainly done more but 3rd and 6th place respectively was no shock.
posted on 18/5/14
Spurs expectations changed, before a ball had even been kicked people were predicting top 4 and even a title push, vibrant team with a young, exciting manager at the helm. when he was sacked i think most Spurs fans would have bitten your hands off for 6th place and European foootball
Chelsea's an odd one, yes we had Jose back which broiught a bit of stability but then plenty of us Chelsea fans were actually saying back in August the club's failure to recruit a proper striker would end up costing us
posted on 18/5/14
Hmm, Chelsea should have won the league with the position they were in IMO, defeats against crap like Villa and Sunderland did you over, and Palace. I think Chelsea bottled it more than Liverpool tbh.
posted on 18/5/14
lack of a decent striker cost us, especially after Christmas with Hazard and Oscar tiring we really had no idea against sides who didn;t go for the jugular and sat back and countered us (irony is if Pool had done that at Anfield they'd have likely got the League!)
posted on 18/5/14
comment by Don't Click (U14639)
posted 16 minutes ago
Spurs expectations changed, before a ball had even been kicked people were predicting top 4 and even a title push, vibrant team with a young, exciting manager at the helm. when he was sacked i think most Spurs fans would have bitten your hands off for 6th place and European foootball
Chelsea's an odd one, yes we had Jose back which broiught a bit of stability but then plenty of us Chelsea fans were actually saying back in August the club's failure to recruit a proper striker would end up costing us
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Who are these people....as I'm sure most spurs fans had us maybe mounting a T4 challenge.....but maybe ending up....well.....where we did.
posted on 18/5/14
junction, was it another case of neutrals bigging up the team more than the fans then?
similar with us actually, most commentators, pundits and other neutrals semed to think we'd do better than most of our fans did!
posted on 18/5/14
by Ozilla Fireinthebox (U18382) 18 May 2014
Man City, Pellegrini and Yaya - What can you say, another league title and a league cup to match. Strong, dominant, at times careless, but a pleasure to watch and worthy champions.
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Accurate appraisal.
As for you chaps I predict that Theo Walcott will be the most talked about Arsenal player next season in a good way and by a long way.
posted on 18/5/14
comment by Don't Click (U14639)
posted 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
junction, was it another case of neutrals bigging up the team more than the fans then?
similar with us actually, most commentators, pundits and other neutrals semed to think we'd do better than most of our fans did!
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Yeah probably.....I think....thou they won't admit it in hindsight....a lot of rival fans were worried about us....!!!
posted on 19/5/14
Pardew has to go down as ugly/bad for that headbutt.