Sunday, March 20, 2011

The bottom is more interesting for me

The Barclays Premier League weekend has come and gone with the usual Manchester United scrappy 1-0 win over Bolton, weekly flops by usual suspects in both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur as they drew with West Brom and West Ham respectively, wasting opportunities to close gaps to stay in touch with their aspirations, the unpredictable Chelsea 2-0 victory over the not-so-concerning Manchester City.

Chelsea are within reach of the title, while City are no longer in it practically. City are said to be rocked by the Coach-Bollatelli relationship breakdown. Such pandemonium usually affect team rhythm badly. Anyway. with the luck at United's side, the last thing one can do is to bet against them. That would be a fatal business deal.

I will not waste time and energy on the top 5 teams separated by 11 points, assuming teams with 29 matches win their games in hand, meaning that 4 matches later, the dynamics will render the picture mathematically so different. What is of interest is that the same scenerio is much more visible at the bottom. The last team has 30 points. 4matches later, they can find themselves 6th, with 42 points. The relegation zone is far more interesting for me than the top.

Upto 11th spot, it's a matter of 2 matches.

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