Premier League Predictability, Or Not

With each passing week it seems pundits, mangers and fans alike are being made mugs off with the performances of their players and idols.

Leeds United were probably the biggest certainty for success at the beginning of the season, even exiting the Winter months, now they will be fortunate to escape the play-off route to gain promotion.

In the Premier league, pre-season predictions have not strayed to far from the current situation but few people would have prescribed to how the action has taken place in this truly baffling domestic campaign.

Chelsea had the league sewn up after their well deserved win at Old Trafford. A week prior Manchester United were in the drivers seat and Arsenal - after their umpteenth resurrection - were even back in the hunt.

The pre-season talk of the race for fourth spot being between the Gunners and Manchester City was blown wide open with Liverpool becoming distinctly average, Tottenham Hotspur played marvellous football in the early part of the season.

Aston Villa recovered from losing captain Martin Laursen proving to be stubborn opposition to score against and deadly on the break. And Everton should have been in the race but had rotten luck with results and injuries.

Which pundit saw the Demolition job done on Arsenal by Chelsea? The Man City win at the Bridge? Portsmouth reaching the F.A Cup final, again? Darren Bent scoring over 20 in the league? Aston Villa running out of steam at the back end of the season? OK, perhaps not that one.

2009/2010 season has been heralded as a fantastic season, full of unpredictability and action and rightly so, maintaining (some may say) its rightful place as being the self-proclaimed best domestic league in the world, even if the pundits have no clue about what their talking about.

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