not denying Tan's a but am i the only one who thinks Mackay would still have taken Cardiff down

Poyet reviving Sunderland should also be on the good surprised he was never really considered for manager of the season, considering the shambles he took over from di Canio he kept theem up and got a cup final to boot

Quite possibly, regardless they had an awful season, I never think it helps when your on the front pages because of your owner rather than the back pages because of your players.

I put Sunderland as 'other notable candidate' they had a wonder half season, and full credit to Poyet for that.

also, Newcastle and Pardew in the bad (how on Earth they finished in the top half...)

and what about Jol/Meulensteen at Fulham?

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 4

Poyet is a strange one, there was a period early on in his tenure where you thought Sunderland would survive comfortably. But they somehow got dragged right back in it, even being bottom at some stage I think. He got himself out of it though, so props for that.

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?

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.

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

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.

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!)

comment by Don't Click (U14639)
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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.

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!

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.

comment by Don't Click (U14639)
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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....!!!

Pardew has to go down as ugly/bad for that headbutt.