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It’s about time Everton got relegated. Four or five seasons they’ve stayed up by relying on anti-football tactics and crossing their fingers that there’s three worse teams in the league.
BBC text feed just pointed out Southampton is now on track to beat Derby’s record for fewest points in a PL season (11).
The brutal thing is that Southampton is looking worse as the season progresses. Early on I would not have guessed they would be this poor, whereas that Derby team was visibly in over their head by the end of August.
He really has a bizarre CV. He has done not very much at some big names. Highlight is winning the EL (not trivial) but otherwise his career seems to have peaked as a youth coach.
It is actually kind of impressive how Chelsea beat Brentford, suddenly were anointed the team that were going to make it a real title race, and have sunk like a stone since. Usually there is an intervening period of emerging doubt