I'd also point out the every single week last season, every single team's fans wrote us off, saying we'd be midtable by xmas or we're not that good. Every single week we proved them wrong. I know the Premier League is different, but I've always thought that under Houghton, "you write us off at...
I dont think its unfair to predict we'll finish bottom, but its a safe prediction for those journalists. Bournemouth and Burnley were also fancied for relegation. People might say they approached things better than we have, but only in retrospect after they stayed up. No one was saying that they...