Against all odds, it looks as if Chelsea will be the Premiership champions for the second year running. A quick look around Europe's top leagues will yield a plethora of similar shocks. Not really. 2006 has been the year of retention. 10 out of 12 of Europe's decent leagues have been/probably will be won by the same teams that won them last year:
England: Chelsea
Italy: Juventus
Spain: Barcelona
Germany: Bayern Munich
France: Lyon
Netherlands: PSV Eindhoven
Greece: Olympiakos
Turkey: Fenerbahce
Switzerland: FC Basel
Scotland: Celtic
The only two decent leagues who have not been retained by the 2005 winners are Portugal, where Porto will take the title from last year's winners Benfica, having won it in 2003 and 2004, and Belgium, where Anderlecht will take the title from Club Bruges, having won four out of the previous 7 titles.
So, crazy, unpredictable stuff my friends.
On the subject of league domination, my current second favourite team are Gretna in the Scottish Division 2. Check out their domination here, their goalscoring exploits here, and buy your commemorative mug here.
2 comments:
I will contend, something I have said to you the last two years now, that the interesting race in the Premiership is the one at the bottom not the one at the top.
Lets just hope it isn't too interesting from Birmingham's perspective.
Seriously thought, if there ever was justifcation for keeping Birmingham in the premiership, despite the likelyhood that they will go down. It is for the economic security of the West Midlands which has taking a battering of late with car factory closures.
KEEP BRUM KEEP JOBS
oops.
realise that rangers won last years spl, not celtic. anyway, who would have guessed it wasn't one of the two...
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