The premier league is usually seen as boring with the top four already known before the season even begins, and the teams to be relegated can usually be predicted, with one major upset.
However this season looks very different, with places to fight for all over the Premier league table. Looking at the table after this weekends games the top four are the same old clubs, with Chelsea and Liverpool leading the way.
Looking at the rest of the table from the bottom up, it is hard to separate the teams as it is very close, and we are going to be in for a very interesting season. With West Brom sitting at the foot of the league with 11 points, which is a record number of points for the bottom team at this time in the season and you can go up to eighth place in the league where Middlesbrough are placed with 17 points, and that is only a six point difference from 20th to eighth place in the table.
Even when you look above eighth place it is still very close, with Everton one point above Middlesbrough, and you have both Aston Villa and Hull City on 20 points.
The season so far has already thrown up a few surprises, and looks like it could be a season where anything could happen, and anyone looks like they can beat anyone.
Look at Arsenal for example they have lost three games so far this season, but not to teams you would have expected them to lose to. Two of the three teams that have beaten the gunners where newly promoted Stoke and Hull
Tottenham once again have changed their manager early on in the season after their worst ever start to a season, and since Harry Redknapp as come into the Spurs hot seat, Tottenham haven’t lost.
But the teams they have got points against even after a poor start, is good, having under former manager, Junade Ramos, going to Stamford Bridge and gaining a point. In Redknapp’s second game in charge Spurs claimed a 4-4 draw in the North London Derby at the Emirates against Arsenal, after being 4-2 down, and then went on to beat the league leaders at the time Liverpool, coming back from a goal down.
But the biggest surprise so far this season has been Hull City, who are lying sixth place in the league, with six wins from their 12 games played so far.
This season looks like it is going to go down right to the wire, with teams fighting for their place in the top flight, and in the space of a game or two, teams could be pushing for a place in Europe or finding themselves in a relegation battle.
