Is it Rafa -v- Fergie, Wenger or Sven?

[Chewie]

Most of the time on here we compare Rafa to Fergie or to Wenger or to Mourinho...but is that because we have bought int the media hype over the so called big four...

 

we have routinely finished closer to teams managed by the likes of Moyes, Jol, Redknapp and Hughes than of those managed by those that have tasted premiership glory...

 

now we are being surpassed by a man derided by the English Press for being swedish...in his first year in charge

 

not to mention the unpredictable but undeniably impressive exploits of Moyes (on a vastly inferior budget and club profile)

 

not to mention the football now being played by Villa under O'Neill...

 

in fact it will be interesting to see if we finish closer to the combined efforts of Jol and Ramos this season than to the lower of the two finishes between Wenger or Fergie...

 

I hate to say but it's teh classic statement: the league table doesn't lie and the truth that's being told is that we are closer to consistent mediocrity than we think...

 

Chewie