Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Mid-week football
I hate it when they have a full set of Premiership games on during mid-week. I had no idea there were any until I happened to check out the BBC website. And this was hardly a throwaway set of fixtures, because it included a big match up of top 4 teams in Liverpool vs. Chelsea. And then I saw that Palace picked up their first league win under Big Sam, and I missed it. They still remain in the bottom 3, but hopefully a good run (starting with a win against fellow bottom-dwellers Sunderland at the weekend) will help drag a few other teams into the fray (including champions Leicester!). I feel like Chelsea are running away with the title (or, more accurately, no other teams seem able to sustain a decent challenge), but the relegation battle could come down to the wire. Tense.