[silverlining]

"But certainly, the pretenders are extremely well-equipped. Villa, Everton and Blackburn have the kind of stability and unity that Liverpool and Chelsea can only dream of."

Villa may well have a good manager, support and the *possibility* of big funds, but I don't see how the other two can be seen as regular challengers to the "Big Four" or "Three" or whatever.

Blackburn are a small club, with a small-time ambition and samll-time fans. That won't ever change. Winning the Premiership didn't change it. It's not a proper football club.

Everton obviously are, but they don't have the funds to compete at the highest level, and their stadium is falling down. They need fucking Tescos to build it for them.

Chelsea are a fucking hideous joke of a club, and I hate everything about them, but as long as Abramocunt is there, they will always be a top club because they've bought that position and if they get rid of the Puppet Corpse for not delivering, thay can always bring in a proper manager and some more top-class players to supplement an already superb squad.
The points he tries to make about Arsenal are, frankly, fucking ridiculous. They have a beauitiful new stadium, some very rich shareholders and Wenger. Many of us thought they'd struggle this year. They haven't.
United and Slur Alex keep getting written off, and they keep winning titles. Year after year. Ownership, debt and loan repayments have not stopped them spending whatever they want on whoever they want.

We get these stories about a change in the guard every few years. I remember reading that Liverpool and Leeds were about to usurp United and Arsenal as the tope two clubs, just before Leeds went into meltdown.

The Top Three is the Top Three. The club that is currently in most danger of dropping out of whatever putative Top Four exists is Liverpool.