11-04-2015, 00:15
There's a difference between teams proclaiming they're too good to go down (a fallacy if ever there was one) and teams who've been hard done by in getting relegated, by usual Prem standards. Yes, West Ham failed to get the necessary points that season, as Blackpool failed to get them in 2011, but that doesn't change my opinion that across 22 years of the Premier League, there are teams who "deserved" relegation more than either, and yet escaped it.
Of course, opinion is all it is; you either feel that each individual Premier League season is a separate contest to be judged on its own merits, or you think there's an objective standard which can be judged from one to the next. There's no right or wrong answer, really. I just tend towards the latter way of thinking.
Of course, opinion is all it is; you either feel that each individual Premier League season is a separate contest to be judged on its own merits, or you think there's an objective standard which can be judged from one to the next. There's no right or wrong answer, really. I just tend towards the latter way of thinking.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley