The lowest that a team has finished after beginning a top-flight English league season with 4 wins from 4 games is 15th. This has been done three times, including by Aston Villa in 1900/01.
Quote from: Footy-Vill on October 21, 2020, 09:01:49 AMThe lowest that a team has finished after beginning a top-flight English league season with 4 wins from 4 games is 15th. This has been done three times, including by Aston Villa in 1900/01. Fun fact, Billy Garraty was in that Villa team.
Win tomorrow, and we'll be 6 points clear of dropping out of the top 4, with a massively superior goal difference. I think we've seen we don't need to fear anybody, my only worry is that we don't really have much in the way of quality replacements for what is a very good first team. If we keep all the key players fit, I think we'll be top 6 with a realistic chance of top 4.
We'll be top ten at least, but we'll have a Gregory-style (1998?) collapse at some point and finish lower than we're promising right now.
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on October 21, 2020, 07:26:41 PMQuote from: Footy-Vill on October 21, 2020, 09:01:49 AMThe lowest that a team has finished after beginning a top-flight English league season with 4 wins from 4 games is 15th. This has been done three times, including by Aston Villa in 1900/01. Fun fact, Billy Garraty was in that Villa team. His great great grandson has a family duty to improve that.
He was in the Villa side which won the FA Cup in 1905 but Jack already has twice as many England caps.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Garraty?wprov=sfla1
Quote from: Sexual Ealing on October 21, 2020, 05:01:02 PMWe'll be top ten at least, but we'll have a Gregory-style (1998?) collapse at some point and finish lower than we're promising right now.That was some collapse btw. Pretty sure we were top of the league still into early February. By final game we finished 6th and behind West Ham which was a bit embarrassing. 12 points off Leeds in 4th although think it was only top 3 who went into CL in those days.08/09 next worst given how strong we were looking at the time. 3 wins from our final 15 league games.
Quote from: SoccerHQ on October 21, 2020, 10:03:52 PMQuote from: Sexual Ealing on October 21, 2020, 05:01:02 PMWe'll be top ten at least, but we'll have a Gregory-style (1998?) collapse at some point and finish lower than we're promising right now.That was some collapse btw. Pretty sure we were top of the league still into early February. By final game we finished 6th and behind West Ham which was a bit embarrassing. 12 points off Leeds in 4th although think it was only top 3 who went into CL in those days.08/09 next worst given how strong we were looking at the time. 3 wins from our final 15 league games.Think 4 teams did qualify for the Champions League then, as I have a feeling that Villa were the last team to finish 4th (in 1996) and not qualify for it.We were also the last Runner-up not to qualify for it 🙄