EPL 2022 / 2023
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Conference place runners and riders
Villa on 58. Home to Brighton. Tough opponent with nothing to play for. Win to guarantee it, draw and both Spurs and Brentford can go past them.
Spurs on 57. Away at Leeds. Shit opponent with everything to play for. Spurs might not even be desperate to qualify. Win and if Villa don't win then Spurs get it. Draw and need Villa to lose to finish above them.
Brentford on 56. Home to Man City. Best opponent with nothing to play for. Have to win and if both Villa and Spurs don't win then they get into Europe for the first time ever.
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It looks like Luton's transfer record is 2 million euro for Carlton Morris - suspect they will need to increase that just a little. Or maybe not, just pocket the cash and prepare for the future. Considering Forest spent 200m on transfer fees and that was just enough to stay up - not to mention their wage bill of close to 70m. Luton's total wage bill was apparently 10m this season - Forest spent that on Lingard alone.
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Leicester were 5th, 5th and 8th in the past 3 seasons and started the season with no new signings and some players who expected not to be there. Tielemans was one of those and he hasn't been on it all season - a lot of their success was based on he and Ndidi shielding the defence. Expect to see both of those plus Madison and Barnes leave plus possibly a couple more if Leicester need to shake off some high earners.
Leeds were just shambolic and I'm pleased the Big Sam gamble failed. If they can keep most of that squad together they will surely be promotion candidates next season - if they can find a manager to wrangle them into a formation.
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
I'm pleased the Big Sam gamble failed
oh shit me too
His opening press conference was total cringe. The shit he spouts about how good he is, and the only reason he's not managing real madrid is he's English is fucking awful.
Bye Sam
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@Cyclops Not about to do the research on that one sorry - must have happened before though with so many regularly relegated teams like Sunderland, Newcastle, Sheffield Wednesday, Burnley, Wolves, Huddersfield etc.
Hard to beat Man City though - champions in 36/37, relegated in 37/38.
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Great day. Villa back playing European football. Didn't think I'd see the day after we've had some awful seasons over the last 13 years and even the start of this season. Really exciting to be there.
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@Cyclops said in EPL 2022 / 2023:
So Leicester joins Blackburn Rovers in the exclusive club of 'EPL champions to have been relegated'.
I wonder how many times two former champions have been relegated is the same season.
Since KP is too lazy
here's a couple of Wiki sites that show it's happened quite frequently even since the EPL existed.At a glance, I think 96-97, 98-99, 01-02, 02-03, 03-04......
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It is indeed very frequent. Special mention to 01/02 and 03/04 where all three relegated teams were champions (although both years one of the relegated teams were Leicester who hadn't won one yet).
I only looked back to the start of the EPL, but it's actually more common to have former champions relegated than not! In 31 seasons only 6 years have no champions relegated. 13 seasons have one relegated 10 have 2 and as mentioned above in two years all three were champions.
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Leicester have been a pretty good club to support this century
Won EPL title.
Won FA Cup
Won League Cup
Won Community Shield
Quarter finals of Champions League
Semi finals of Conference League
Twice promoted to the EPL
Once promoted from League 1
Relegated 3 times from the EPL
Relegated once from the championship.Perfect. Have to have the bad times to appreciate the good times.
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Remarkable record for Sevilla - 5 of the last 10 Europa Leagues won by them in a competition you have to qualify for by being good but not too good. In 3 of those 10 seasons they were in the last 16 of the UCL instead.
Before this season, Sevilla have finished between 4th and 7th in La Liga for 9 consecutive seasons.
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Counting next season 46 teams have appeared in the EPL. That's pretty good going as it's almost half the top 4 Divisions. Only 4 teams will have spent a single season in the PL and two of them will be Luton and Coventry.
For all their successes and failures (noted by @Kiwipie above) Leicester have only spent 14 seasons at the top level which places them 14th equal on the appearances table.
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Bordeaux-Rodez play-off in France called off after fan attacks player.
List of English football champions - Wikipedia
