Reds just delaying the inevitable!

May 11, 2009

Liverpool’s emergence this season has been a welcome sight in the battle for the Premier League title, but it looks like the outcome of the race is going to have the same old predictable outcome!

All the hype at the start of every season is about how Chelsea will do this, Arsenal can do that and Liverpool will finally break their near 20-year wait for the Championship.

However, barring a Jose Mourinho-led Chelsea interrupting the party for two successive seasons between 2004-06, it has reverted to type with Sir Alex Ferguson’s men leading the way once again.

A win at Wigan on Wednesday will leave the Red Devils needing just a point against the Gunners next Sunday to retain the trophy and put their feet up at Hull on the final day to rest their main men for the Champions League final in Rome on May 27. And, bizarrely, Liverpool will have to sit back and watch it all unfold as their next match is not until Sunday when they venture to the Hawthorns to face West Brom.

So it looks a safe football bet that the ‘best league in the world’ will again have Manchester United at the top of its tree for the third straight season and the 11th time out of 17 Premier League seasons since it got underway back in 1992.

Then, in the summer, when Chelsea bring in a new boss, Liverpool will claim to be finally ready to build on this season and push that extra yard required to topple United and Arsene Wenger claims to have brought in the experienced players that will catapult Arsenal into contention, will anyone actually believe them?

Personally I won’t be listening anymore!

The Premier League is just an over-hyped division where only one team can win it; three can talk a good game and run them fairly close, while the other 16 sides just scrap around either to see who can be the best of the rest, or who can actually stay in it to secure another hefty pay cheque from Television rights!

People used to slate the Scottish Premier League for its lack of competitiveness. But at least Celtic and Rangers have a realistic chance of actually winning the thing come the end of the season.

England’s top-flight is turning into the Manchester United show and it is just a question of time before fans get fed up with the whole scenario and turn their back on watching matches given that we will already know the outcome by the end of it all!

Written by Craig Smithson, a professional sports writer who blogs about football betting.

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