Based on pre premier League History, Chelsea don't even make the top 20

In any order I believe; ManUtd, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Man City, Everton, Sunderland, Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, Birmingham, West Brom, Wolves, Leeds, Derby, Blackburn, Burnley, Preston, Huddersfield, Portsmouth, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield UTD and Ipswich would all be bigger than them. Putting them 24th.

Do you think I'm too high, too low, or spot on?

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u/gregariousity — 1 day ago

If the top 2 teams have the same number of points at the end of the season, instead of deciding the league on goal difference, they should play a game in a neutral stadium to decide the title

I also think they should do the same thing for relegation. With the current rules, goal difference, goal scored, head to head, yellow cards etc must all be the same before the two teams play each other to decide who finishes higher. So it will basically never happen.

I believe that the rules should stay the same apart from if it decides the title or relegation. Goal difference feels like a technicallity, and it might just be me, but it doesn't feel right when it decides who goes down, or who wins the title.

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u/gregariousity — 9 days ago

Bookies predictions on the left vs my predictions on the right

I looked on odds checker for odds to win the league, get top 4, and top 10. The orders were slightly different but this was the general vibe.

To explain some of my outliers, Brentford don't have Europe to deal with, and their recruitment is always brilliant so I think they'll do quite well this season.

However United will have a lot more games this year, and they haven't signed enough players to deal with it.

I'm surprised the bookies have Fulham so low, Marco Silva was a great manager but their squad too good to be thrown into a relegation battle.

However I'm not as surprised that Sunderland are so low, they overperformed their xg last season and still didn't score that many goals, and also have to deal with Europa League football. But I like their squad and manager, so I'll think they'll do fine.

Bournemouth have a good squad, but no Iriaola and having to deal with Europe, they'll struggle but I think they'll be fine.

Hull, I don't have a good explanation for putting them 16th, pure vibes and hope that one of the promoted teams stays up.

Crystal Palace going down, they've got Europa league football to deal with and they were really poor last season. So I think this will be their year.

u/gregariousity — 11 days ago

The original creator deserves more credit

Is there a sub where that's all about giving the original creator credit, this video's got loads of views on meme pages, but he's barely got anything from it.

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u/gregariousity — 12 days ago

Football is non transitive so there is no best team in the world

Non transitive basically means rock paper scissors. Just because paper beats rock, and rock beats scissors, that doesn't mean paper beats scissors. This stuff happens basically all the time in 1 off games. But I think you'd still get these non transitive loops happening even over lots of games.

A lot of people think PSG is the best team in the world. But I think if Arsenal and PSG played lots of games in a neutral stadium, Arsenal would win more than PSG. I also think Man city would beat Arsenal in a neutral stadium more often than Arsenal. But I also think PSG would beat Man City more than Man City. So who's the best team in the world then? None of them. I don't think there is currently an undisputed best team in the world that would beat every other team in the world more often than not in a neutral stadium.

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u/gregariousity — 15 days ago

Humans beat any other land animal XI in a game of football

I'm assuming the animals know the rules, so they don't just eat the humans. I'm also assuming the animal goal keeper isn't just covering the goal, making it impossible to score. And if it's not clear in the title, this animal XI is from only 1 species of animal. You can't have 2 cheetahs on the wing with a back 4 of elephants.

I think the stamina of people would come out on top of any other animal, 90 minutes is a long time, for example cheetah XI would start really strong but tire very quickly. And the size and weight of a football is perfect for humans to control, but would be a lot trickier for other animals.

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u/gregariousity — 30 days ago

Adam Cleary is the best English football content creator

FNG's FTW series and Chris MD's football videos are great but Adam Cleary's analysis is just so good. The thing that just edges it for me is how regularly he uploads.

Edit: It's Clery, not Cleary. It autocorrected and I didn't notice

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u/gregariousity — 1 month ago

Last time each world cup semi finalist was at war with each semi-finalist, should it go in a football sub or history/geography sub

Also, are there any mistakes, it would be nice to remove them now

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