1. Man U (like the have for the last 4 years)
2. City and the usual 3: Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea (just like they have for the last 9 years)
3. Any 3 of the 5 clubs at the bottom now. I.e. with 10 games left, you have a 60% chance of exactly predicting the 3 teams to be relegated. It's been as predictable and boring as that for a long while now. In fact there's only been one exciting relegation battle in the last decade that went down to the last day (can't remember the exact season but it was the one with Palace and Norwich going down and WBA staying up). Compare this to Spain last year where the team in 11th place could still have gone down on the final day.
4. The current business model of English football is unsustainable and if it wasn't for the generosity of foreign owners the PL would lose much more of its talent to the continent. Compare this to German where 16/18 clubs in the BL are fan-owned, and France and Spain where only 1 and 2 clubs respectively are owned by foreigners. As far as I know Italy has no foreign ownership. Yet they each have just as many UCL quarter final representatives as the PL.
All this is not a comment on the general quality of play. The PL by far produces the highest quality of goals week after week. It's just that the league as a whole has a consistent sense of 'deja vu' about it.
1. United have not won the last 4 league titles. Writing off City eh?
2. So no Spurs who are in third at the mo then? You cannot have the usual and pick a team who are not the usual. Thats doesn't work.
3. Any 3 of 5 isn't a prediction. What your saying is that a number of teams could get relegated and you don't know who.
4. Which generous foreign owners? You mean Chelsea and City. Thats hardly a lot is it?
Spain has a few foreign owners now, and teams in Spain are very close to the edge due to the unsubstainable setup that league has with regards to cash. It is a sunny SPL.
Germany also has its fair share of big owners, there are two teams owned by Multinational companies, two (to my knowledge) propped up by rich owners, and a few who nearly bankrupted themselves trying to compete and a few smaller teams that never do anything.
Italy, we won't even go there, a total basket case of a country when it comes to cash. Oh and Roma is owned by an American.
It would make a better argument to say foreign money is hindering the premier league as the likes of City and Chelsea have increased transfer fees and wages making it harder to build teams. This in turn makes it more expensive to watch the thing.
