there are not many weaker sides
most teams in the league have strengthened quite a bit or already have good squads
much against the popular belief, the prem is an almighty hard league
look at sat, we as fans have gotten arrogant all of a sudden and expected to brush sunderland aside. (yet if liverpool fans talk about brushing us aside we would call them arrogant ****s)
they have some very good players, their goal scorer was bought (very surprisingly) from Juventus and is a full on italian international who starred in the confederations cup (osvaldo didnt)
yet, we expected to brush them aside and expect them to fight for relegation
this league (this season) is going to bar far more harder than last year
what the article does not tell you is that many of the lost defeats at home were in the 1st half of last season
in our last 10 league home games (9 last seasosn, 1 this), we have lost 2. that includes beating 2 of last season top 4, beating Liverpool and drawing against everton
that is pretty good for a team 1st year back in the prem if you ask me (bar the 1 game this season)