[Football] Teams that have surprised you this year so far...

[Whitechapel]

Had an E/W league winner bet at the start of the season. 1/4 odds for top 3.

Norwich - Pissing the League.
Peterborough - 2nd with 3 games in hand of 1st.
Bolton - 6th after a very slow start. Looking good for automatic promotion.
Dagenham - 16th... So it's safe to say they've surprised me.


The less said about my relegation bet featuring Barnsley & Morecambe the better.

 

[ac gull]

Burton in 2021 - played twelve and won ten under new manager Hasselbaink - surely a good long term bet for us whenever Potter goes off to a big six club or wherever

 

[Swansman]

Burton in 2021 - played twelve and won ten under new manager Hasselbaink - surely a good long term bet for us whenever Potter goes off to a big six club or wherever

Didnt do too well in Northampton or in QPR, but glad to see him doing well at Burton again.

 

[Weststander]

Really surprised at the number of people saying Leeds. I think they're about where I thought they'd be - if anything, slightly worse than predicted at this stage ( I thought they'd lost to Liverpool at the start and then put a run together until the fixtures caught up with them).

I thought Sheff Utd would struggle a bit but not go off the cliff like that. Villa were always going to do better.

Like most people, the two that really surprise me are Liverpool and West Ham

In the championship, I'm shocked by Barnsley - had them down as relegation candidates with Wycombe and Massive

I thought Leeds would do well and not be in the relegation mix.

Almost inevitable as NSC’ers en masse predicted their relegation last summer.

Although Bamford’s surprised me with his goal tally at elite level.

 

[smillie's garden]

Leeds for me. They generally get well beaten by the teams in the top half, but seem to have a very useful knack of winning all their games against the bottom 7-8 so far, apart from against us.\

God, I hope you're right about that. Do FFC on Friday and I'll call them Squeaky Clean Leeds for the rest of my days (and I'd let them have sniff of three BW's used kit, if they'd like.)

 

[ac gull]

Burton just gone one nil up away at Crewe