The End of Season Review

Everyone else has done one so why can’t I? So here we are at the tail end of another eventful season. Some would say that it was the best season in Premier League history, certainly true in the fact that West Ham have finally been relegated, how you can be £80 million pounds in debt and then drag Newham Council (The poorest council in the world…. Okay London) to hand over another £40 million pounds for a scheme devised by the new crazy gang, no not AFC Wimbledon (by the way good luck to them for restoring Wimbledon to the Football League) but Gold, Sullivan and Brady, I would call them a threesome but I think that has already been devised by Gold in one of his many pornographic collections.

They will fail… inevitably, Alan Sugar said it and now I am saying it too, it can’t fundamentally work, West Ham fans will be dejected and they will be in the Championship (or maybe League 1 but one can only hope) the season they will move in to the Olympic Stadium, it was supposed to be a sign of new times for the club, but as fans realise what the owners have done to their club, they will quickly realise that watching the club lose from 100 feet away will be even more disappointing than it was at Upton Park. Now I’ve got that little rant from my system let us continue.

In a sense that little mini explosion of my mind was aimed at someone I know and they will know it too… Dan, but I digress….

It has been a season of ups and downs but universally we will all agree that it will feel like we have lost a piece of ourselves with no Blackpool for the upcoming season, it has now become a cliché but they have been a breath of fresh air, and watching Ian Holloway’s press conferences have been such a difference from the bleak, suicide inducing drivel of Wenger and Ferguson, when your manager starts singing in the middle of his interview then you know you’ve got someone good.

In terms of “the best season ever” I would have to say yes for entertainment but no for performance, mainly because of Manchester United’s pathetic away form and Chelsea’s decision to throw away the title by sacking Ray Wilkins, to be honest I never thought the “Stay on your feet” guy would have such an impact on a team, but what do I know…

But to keep with tradition I have brought in the End of Season Awards:

Best performance of the season: Newcastle 4-4 Arsenal (4 nil down at half time, no-one saw this happening)

Team of the season: Blackpool (for the pre mentioned reasons)

Arse of the season: Roman Abramovich (Torres for £50 million and a sacked Ancelotti, as Paul Merson would say “He has had a shocker”)

Class of the season: Scott Parker (He plays for West Ham, and I like him, need I say more?)

And finally I thought I’d look back on my predictions for the season I made:

Winners: Man United (I felt like an idiot when Chelsea won their first 6 games 20-0)

Everton: 7^th (I felt like an idiot when we were second bottom for what felt like a year)

Relegated: Blackpool, West Ham and West Brom (I felt like an idiot when Blackpool were beating everyone)

FA Cup: Manchester City ( No I’m just kidding, I said Chelsea, what an idiot I am)

Beckford v Piquionne: Beckford (Just in case you were wondering what this is, I had a bet with someone over who would score more goals, of course I won, but I have yet to get my winnings….)

So it’s all over, we just have the Transfer Window and next season to look forward to, the fun begins here…