2004/05 Premiership Champions

The season ended yesterday with a superb finale at the bottom of the table, when any one from 4 could have avoided the drop. In the end, the most unlikely of all survived, West Brom, having started the day bottom, and breaking the old hoodoo that says the team bottom at Christmas never stays up. Congratulations Baggies!

On the subject of breaking records, we managed to set a few ourselves, including:

Most points ever (95)
Most consecutive wins
Most away wins
Least goals conceded (15)
Most clean sheets
Most consecutive away wins
Most wins

We also managed to get our scoring midfielder to finish as the 3rd highest English scorer, above Rooney, Fowler and Heskey! He also won one Player of the Year award, while the Chelsea captain John Terry collected the other.

We finished the season at St James' Park, (Newcastle, not Exeter) in what appeared to be more of a pre-season friendly than an end of season match. A very poor 1-1 with not a lot of effort from either side. The locals were unanimous in their view that Souness should be packing his bags after a 14th place finish, 11 points from relegation, and 51 points from Chelsea!

The Newcastle players gave a guard of honour, but looked a lot more like they meant it than Man U-SA did. The fans also gave a huge standing ovation.

Even Everton who finished in 4th place ended the season closer to the bottom of the table than the bottom, so Arsenal surrender the trophy to the team who finished 12 points in front.