The final ranking of the 40 (yes, 40) Premier League managers of the season and Frank Lampard is in the bottom five...twice. Only Stelling breaks up the Lampard, Gerrard, Parker midfield axis.
Wolves’ awful run-in last season spilled over and became a terrible start to this one. They’d won one in eight at the start of the campaign when the goodwill with Lage’s drab football finally ran out. They’d scored three goals in those eight games without ever managing more than one in a single game. They are far better now in every single way under Julen Lopetegui having slowly but surely steered themselves away from the relegation bunfight.
, and it looked like it was heading that way until one of the turniest turning points of the whole season: Marc Guehi’s equaliser for Palace at Elland Road on the stroke of half-time on April 9. Before that, Leeds had won three of Gracia’s six games in charge and appeared firmly on course for a fourth in seven. Guehi’s against-the-run-of-play leveller set the platform for an absurd second-half collapse and 5-1 Palace win, which was swiftly followed by a 6-1 humbling from Liverpool.
For better and mainly worse, Selles was undoubtedly A Southampton Manager. He will not be in charge of their attempt to regain Premier League status, and we rather suspect Southampton’s return to the top flight is more likely than Selles’, whose future lies alongside Saltor in frustrating quizzers a decade from now. Especially if the list is alphabetical. They’ll be right there next to each other, baffling your tired little brain as you desperately try to remember either of them ever existed.
and at some point – and it’s coming pretty soon we fear – that is going to start to be a bit of a problem. Conte’s negging and constant criticism of pretty much everything about Spurs really did manage to convince a lot of people he had been let down by the club rather than it being almost entirely the other way around.
But Conte weaponised that tendency we all have and used it to shield himself and deflect from his own obvious and significant failings in a season where he was too rigid, too stubborn and singularly failed to coach an ounce of improvement into a single Tottenham player. If anyone tells you Conte wasn’t backed or his self-serving Saints rant was proved right by what followed, send them our way and we’ll tell them they’re talking bollocks.
The manner of their defeat to Real Madrid again in this season’s competition is also vexing, but a season pockmarked by struggle is at least ending with something akin to a flourish for the one team who’d previously managed to give Pep Guardiola’s Man City anything to think about. In 23 games that have earned a thoroughly acceptable 31 points, Wolves have never gone more than three without a win under Lopetegui. He has successfully kept the Wolves from the door but, as with other teams whose disappointing seasons will by definition end with Premier League status intact the bigger question will be what comes next.
The season-defining spell came in a run of four wins in their last five games, including a magnificent nonsense at Spurs and a 4-1 drubbing of Leeds which meant losing their last four games of the season mattered not a jot. If Palace being the first team to play their way out of the nine-team relegation fight was always pretty likely – they were the last team to play their way into it and had a very lopsided fixture list – few would have picked out Bournemouth as the second.
A top-half finish and the opportunity to look down on Chelsea in the league table can thus now be enjoyed to their fullest.Brilliant. Turned a ragbag bunch of assorted footballers into something approaching a coherent Premier League football team after a necessarily hectic summer of transfer activity, and then did the same after a needlessly hectic winter of transfer activity.
They beat United, thrashed Arsenal, drew with City to fly past Spurs and hold off Villa to seal a place in next year’s Europa League. Thirteen points from their final eight games of the season might not seem like much, but in the context of what they were up against and the fact those eight games were played in the space of 30 days, it was an extraordinary achievement to end a season that already featured plenty of hardships overcome. Excellent manager, excellent football club.
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