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who will win the premiership this year?
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Hi Fred,
Thanks very much for your email,
You've asked us who will win the premiership this year. As you may have guessed we're not able to give you an accurate response to this but however, can try and and provide you with an overview of the main teams. As far as predictability goes, we would envisage it would be either Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool or Arsenal.
Well if we start with Manchester United which are the most successful premier league club having won the title ten times. Giving an overview of their victories to date is as follows:
Premier league history:
1992/1993 Win the FA Carling Premiership
1993/1994 Win the FA Carling Premiership and FA Cup
1995/1996 Win the Fa Carling Premiership and the FA Cup
1996/1997 Win the FA Carling Premiership
1998/1999 Win the FA Carling Premiership, European Cup and the FA Cup
1999/2000 Win the FA Carling Premiership
2000/2001 Win the FA Carling Premiership
2002/2003 Win the Barclaycard Premiership
2003/2004 Win the FA Cup
2005/2006 Win the League Cup
2006/2007 Win Barclays Premiership
2007/2008 Win Barclays Premier league, Win European Cup
2008/2009 Win Barclays Premier league, Carling Cup, World Club Championship
As for Chelsea football club:
1905 Chelsea FC is founded.
1955 Chelsea wins the First Division title for the first time.
1970/71 Chelsea wins the FA Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup, repeating the same
sequence in 1997 and 1998.
2003 Roman Abramovich buys Chelsea FC.
2004 Peter Kenyon, formerly of Manchester United, is appointed chief executive of Chelsea FC and recruits Jose Mourinho as manager. 2006 Of Chelsea's 24-man first-team squad, 16 were chosen to represent their countries at the 2006 World Cup, encompassing 10 different nationalities.
If it wasn't for one man, Liverpool Football Club would never have been born. When Everton left Anfield in a dispute over rent in 1892, club chairman John Houlding stayed behind along with a handful of supporters and just three first-team players. But he was determined to see football continue at the ground. He formed a new club from scratch, chose the name Liverpool… and created a legend.
Even John Houlding couldn't have predicted how successful it would become. More than 100 years on, no English club can match the LiverpoolFC roll of honour; League Champions 18 times, FA Cup winners seven times, League Cup winners seven times, European Cup winners five times and UEFA Cup winners three times.
We've focused on 10 key dates in Liverpool Football Club's history :
1892 - Liverpool Football Club was formed
1901 - The first title win
1892 - 1965 - held six first division titles
1965 - Winning the FA Cup for the first time
1977 - LFC were the European champions winning the European Cup for the first time
2001 - Clinched a cup treble
2005 - Champion league winners
2006 - FA Cup winners 2006
A small group of Scots sowed the seed that would grow into one of the most famous names in football.David Danskin, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, worked at the Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich. He founded a team with the help of three friends, Elijah Watkins, John Humble and Richard Pearce. The arrival in Woolwich of two Nottingham Forest players, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, had spurred Danskin into action.
Word got around and 15 men came forward, each prepared to pay sixpence to help start up a club. Danskin added another three shillings himself and the club bought a football. It was October 1886.The club arranged its first game for December 1886 but had no name, no kit and nowhere to play. Danskin and company were referred to as Dial Square - after one of the factory's workshops - and crossed the Thames to play Eastern Wanderers on the Isle of Dogs.
Dial Square won 6-0 and met in the Royal Oak pub, next to Woolwich Arsenal station, on Christmas Day 1886. Beardsley solved the kit problem by asking his contacts at Nottingham Forest to help. They duly sent a complete set of red shirts.
And as they sat in the Royal Oak, the founding fathers chose a new name. They combined the name of the pub with their place of work - Royal Arsenal. It was far grander than 'Dial Square' and would be the club's name until 1891 when Woolwich Arsenal was formally adopted.
At the time the 15 men who had pooled their resources to buy a football wanted little more than a means of exercise and, no doubt, the social activity which accompanied it. Little did they know what they had started.
So, we hope which ever football team you support they have a good season, and maybe Preston North End, another historical club which its possible you support, will join their local neighbours in the top flight again at the end of next season!
Best wishes
Q2A
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