mkjones

Its 6pm GMT on the 13th of May 2007 and the Barclays Premiership is over.

Manchester United took the title away from Chelsea by playing the best and beautiful football seen in the league for a long time. Arsenal and Liverpool again underachieved making it a solid 2 horse race pretty much all season.

At the bottom Watford (careful Firefox users, the Watford site crashed out twice on me….), Charlton and Sheffield United were sent packing down into the lower leagues, a place where some will struggle to bounce back from.

For me, as a relatively new football fan its been a great season. Especially off the back of a thoroughly disappointing World Cup.

Notably, the title race was, for once, just that. Man U held all the cards for most of the season, however a strong Chelsea team were a constant shadow chewing away at their league. If not for a few key injuries and sub-par summer signings (I’m looking your way Ballack) it could have been all different.

Also, the top 4 teams all got through to the later stages of the Champions League a fact which has promoted many pundits to label the Premiership ‘The best football league in the world’.

And Reading were a surprise package finishing in the top 10 after being promoted last season.

Its just a Fantasy

On a more personal note today I celebrate winning a Fantasy Football League tournament which myself and 5 of my friends started way back at the start of the season. The prize is nothing to particularly write home about (a free meal) but it was a rather enjoyable and sometimes life encompassing experience.

The price of loosing sadly falls to my Cousin who’s penance is the rather unpleasant task of paying for said meal.

So, at the end of this post I can only go on to hope that next season is just as exciting and that I again do well in the Fantasy League.

I sign off only to say that I now look forward to a rather drab sporting summer of England Euro 2008 qualifiers which I have the uneasy feeling that Steve McLaren will be out of a job by the end of.