Premier League - The Crow - Chelsea gave us the Blues, while Spurs still can’t beat Burnley
Published: 13 May, 2010
The Crow
by RICHARD OSLEY
NOBODY won the election, and nobody won the Premier League.
Everybody just lost. Everybody was rubbish. Nobody was really first past the post, the season just ended and the least bad team won.
How anybody can think Chelsea might even be truly great champions when they lost so many games and played such a boring brand of football is beyond me? The threadbare quality of the England squad announced this week and the failure for any English club to do well in the Champions League just proves how weak this league is.
So, after lifting the Premiership trophy, what does John Terry suggest? What do you think, silly? He asks the Chelsea management, through his newspaper interviews, to spend more money on new players to build a team capable of winning more stuff. And herein lies the problem with Chelsea. It’s just money, money, money Pffff... I thought there was a world wide money crisis.
And yet if Arsenal don’t want to spend the last day of the season with a muted trundle around the Emirates Stadium next season, they too will have to part with some cash this summer. Three or four faces and some magic ointment for all those injury-hit players could do the trick nicely. That is, of course, providing Cesc Fabregas doesn’t go anywhere.
THE WROE
By PiP Wroe
THE last hour of our season was a sobering reminder that we can still lose the plot in magnificent fashion.
Having effortlessly ripped through Burnley with a confidence I’ve all too quickly come to expect, we then scrabbled back to the form that saw us flirt with relegation not so long ago.
As Assou-Ekotto allowed his almost charming indifference to consume him and Younes Kaboul prodded the ball aimlessly like a small child I became truly aware of what this team’s achieved.
Spurs have been consistent for (nearly) an entire season, not five or six games as might have created a stir in the past. Our team looks hungry and unified and there’s a sense that the players enjoy working alongside each other. It has undoubtedly been a superb team effort. Even that pant-dancing buffoon David Bentley has pulled on a pair of shorts and stepped up to the plate.
Of course, there have been stars throughout the season. Michael Dawson has been gargantuan, Tom Huddlestone was born gargantuan and has played accordingly all year and the trio of Gareth Bale, Aaron Lennon and Luka Modric have all had magnificent runs of form. I only hope supporting Spurs will be as rewarding next year.
But first it’s time to watch six of our boys represent England, and deservedly so.