It is already common knowledge for anyone who has published or read a substantial amount of Premier League football content online which three clubs are responsible for the majority of clicks, hits, traffic, and revenue.
However, it’s always entertaining to be reminded of that fact and the three participating clubs through outspoken headlines such as this one from the Mirror.
This weekend’s Premier League rule change will impact Manchester United, Arsenal, and Liverpool.
The proposed regulation change is quite straightforward. Instead of 60 minutes prior to kickoff, Premier League clubs are now required to reveal their squads 75 minutes beforehand. All the Premier League clubs are that.
This new rule will also “affect” Aston Villa, Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Everton, Fulham, Ipswich, Leicester, Man City, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Southampton, Tottenham, West Ham, and Wolves, unless we missed the part about it only applying to teams in red.
Who really gives a damn about those dumb little teams, though?
Text that predicts
Regarding his, to use his own phrase, audacious forecasts for the 2024–2025 season, Mediawatch has nothing but admiration for Adam Cailler of the Daily Star.
Naturally, as is customary, every journal has asked its authors to offer their predictions for the upcoming season. If you’d like, you can view Football365’s own foolish gaffes here, but Mediawatch suggests holding off for a few months to fully appreciate the ridiculous inaccuracy of it all.
Nevertheless, a hero emerges amidst all the usual content on every football website in the city, with authors wearyly picking City to win the championship or, worse, imagining that “Erik Ten Hag will be gone by Christmas!” or “West Ham are my dark horses – they could push for Europe!” constitute intriguing and/or novel ideas.
A hero who is just getting started in the Premier League and predicts Liverpool will win it all. Fourth position? Leicester City.
Leicester, who have a very quality group, enters the season with no expectations. It’s hardly surprising if they place fourth.
The following content is continued.
Adam, we’ll be surprised.
Demoted? Aston Villa, Southampton, and Everton—who will finish last “by a long, long way”—are the other teams. Additionally, Unai Emery’s first manager was fired, which we assume at least makes sense given their relegation status.
FA Cup champions? Ipswich. Carabao? Bournemouth. This is truly magnificent stuff. To be clear, we are not in any way criticizing any of it. We should all burn up in the process because we are all mistaken about this.
The only issue, of course, is that when Adam is asked to make a “Bold/outrageous claim,” all of these melting pots leave him with very little option.
Erik ten Hag’s employment will remain even if Manchester United will finish in the bottom half.
That’s quite light fare, when you consider that Leicester is now in fourth place, Villa has been demoted, and Ipswich and Bournemouth have won prizes.
Our favorite part of it all, though, is that he still chooses Real Madrid and Erling Haaland when asked about a Champions League winner and Premier League top scorer, despite all these provocative responses.
There are limitations to how much laughter is acceptable. Things can be taken too far.
The following content is continued.
Leave a Reply