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15 – Aston Villa
They will be disappointed. Villa pull in 38,000 people on average every home game. They are proud, faithful fans.
Villa are not a bad team. Benteke and Adbonglahor are able strikers but their inconsistency is so very consistent. Villa are the only team in the league who can be lively, dull, pacey, slow, boring and attractive all in a same match.
In this season, they have defeated Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea. They also drew against Liverpool. And, still finished 15th? Says a lot doesn’t it?
14 – Sunderland
This is Sunderland’s season report – Bad, BAD, so very BAD, bad, AWESOME. And, they stayed in the Premier League finished 14th and earned themselves a trip to Wembley.
Out of the last available 18 points, they gathered 13 that too against the likes of Man City, Man United and Chelsea. Great escape it was!
13 – West Ham
I don’t understand the obsession with Andy Carroll. Why do you have to overhead pass every single ball to Carroll? West Ham are undoubtedly the new Stoke City of the Premier League.
To clearly state how bad they were, let me tell you an example. Jose Mourinho, the man who invented the Bus claimed that West Ham were playing 19th century football. That bad.
It worked alright. They got in some good, solid wins but oh my god! It was a pain watching them play.
12 – Swansea
There was a guy named Michu right? Was he sold or what? Where did he go? Well, Swansea too are wondering the same. 15 starts and Michu scored 2 goals.
They however were saved by another striker – Wilfried Bony, who scored 16 times.
The general opinion is this – How could they fire Laudrup? The guy was so good! (Mainly because I don’t remember when they won games and how they managed to finish at 12th)
11 – Crystal Palace
Tony Pulis transformed Crystal Palace’s fortunes and took them to 11th from 20th
What a great season and what great fans! They could be the Galatasaray of English football. Well, without the fireworks. Your team is 3-0 down against the potential champions. What do you do? Sulk, eat prawn sandwiches and leave the stadium early to avoid the crowd?
Tell that to Palace fans and they’ll laugh at you. At 3-0 down against Liverpool, they kept on chanting and singing and their team went on to pull off the impossible. They play fearlessly mainly because Tony Pulis is fearless.
