I was going to say "how spectacular their decline has been", but when I thought about it, all they've done is dropped a division or two in the time it's taken us to get from the fourth tier to the top. It's us who have made the giant leap since the days of battling against their illegal...
Oh my God. Read the first ten (at least) pages of this "our rivals' results" thread from HNA. Retro joy.
It truly makes for a most satisfying read, especially their joy at our loss to Huddersfield and the eager anticipation of our "annual promotion bottling" (which was never true anyway)...
Teams I would happily see fail this season (excluding Palace- that goes without saying):
-Burnley. Just because Sean Dyche
-Sheffield Wednesday (they've slipped back to their usual level after a couple of fluke seasons where they reached play offs. Always good to see "massive" clubs forced to...
Unfortunately, it appears that if they do go down, they're likely to be replaced by the Greatest Fans In The World Ever, looking at Pompey's record this season.
Come on Sunderland. Come on Luton (yikes). Come on anybody but the occupants of the Bell End.
I would be delighted if Reading went down this season. An irritant of a club. All that stuff over the summer about Liam Moore was never going to end well for them. All their club has done is tied down a player who clearly wanted to move, leaving him to stew resentfully in the back four of a team...