Most Seasons in the Premier League

[spyinthesky]

Arsenal, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Man Utd, Spurs..............31/31,
Villa,Newcastle................................................................................28.
West Ham..........................................................................................27.    
Man City............................................................................................26.  
The one and only SAINTS...........................................................24.
Blackburn...........................................................................................18.
Leicester..............................................................................................17.
Fulham, Sunderland...........................................................................16.
Leeds,Middlesboro...........................................................................15.
Palace.................................................................................................14.
Bolton, WBA........................................................................................13.
Norwich, Stoke...................................................................................10.
Coventry, Wolves................................................................................9.
Burnley, Charlton, Sheffield Weds, Watford, Wigan, Wimbledon. 8.
Birmingham, Derby, QPR, Swansea, Portsmouth ............................................................... .7
Bournemouth, Brighton, Forest..........................................................6.
Hull, Ipswich, Sheffield Utd................................................................5.
Reading .................................................................................................3.
Bradford City, Brentford, Cardiff, Huddersfield, Oldham..................2,
 

The clubs shown in bold are founder members of the Premier League
Not a bad record but, unfortunately, most of the time we have been in the lower positions but at least we have been in the top League pretty consistently in the past 31 years.
Poor old Oldham, once a Prem side, now down in the National League.
There are also seven clubs who once graced the top League wallowing in the depths of the old Third & Fourth Divisions.

 

[Bad Wolf]

Surprised to see Middlesbrough that far up. I though they'd had 5 or 6.

[Convict Colony]

First post after the title should read -We have been crap.

[once_bitterne]

Why are the one season wonders like Swindon not listed?

[Sunglasses Ron]

I know not everyone agrees, and would prefer to trade places for a Portsmuff / Swansea style situation (i.e. a cup win followed by years floundering in the lower leagues), but this is definitely something to be proud of.

Edited 5 August, 2022 by Sunglasses Ron

[badgerx16]

Poor old Luton Town and Notts County; signed the Foundation Agreement and have never played in it.

[Baird of the land]

Maybe someone could point it out to the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/pf331s01hu/Thirty-years-of-the-premier-league-in-pictures

[badgerx16]

1 minute ago, Baird of the land said:

Maybe someone could point it out to the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/pf331s01hu/Thirty-years-of-the-premier-league-in-pictures

We would have been relegated years ago if Lawro's predictions had been accurate. The BBC are only interested in the 'Big 5', City, United, Chelsea, Arsenal, and the red Scousers - Leicester get their mention because they upset the master plan, and Forest get in because of the character that was Cloughie. The make weights are of no consequence, and are interchangeable.

[OldNick]

31 years of PL riches and we still have been poor. The advantage we should have gained by having more money that the teams who haven't been in the league long has been wasted. Shamefull

[S-Clarke]

1 minute ago, OldNick said:

31 years of PL riches and we still have been poor. The advantage we should have gained by having more money that the teams who haven't been in the league long has been wasted. Shamefull

We have wasted some crazy money, certainly in recent years. That VVD sale should have helped us evolve the team in a time when we were in the post-koeman dip, but they gave 20 fucking million of it to MP to sign Carrillo and then sacked him a few weeks later ffs. One of the worst transfer windows I can ever remember.

The summer under Hughes wasn't much more of a success either. Wasted the rest of the VVD fortune on Vestergaard, Gunn, Elyounoussi. Shocking really, targeted the wrong sorts of player.

[OldNick]

3 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

We have wasted some crazy money, certainly in recent years. That VVD sale should have helped us evolve the team in a time when we were in the post-koeman dip, but they gave 20 fucking million of it to MP to sign Carrillo and then sacked him a few weeks later ffs. One of the worst transfer windows I can ever remember.

The summer under Hughes wasn't much more of a success either. Wasted the rest of the VVD fortune on Vestergaard, Gunn, Elyounoussi. Shocking really, targeted the wrong sorts of player.

100% 

[skintsaint]

Remember the heady early days, top imports coming in to most teams and we go and get Carlton Palmer.

 

 

 

 

*not factual at all and just a bit of a laugh.

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, skintsaint said:

Remember the heady early days, top imports coming in to most teams and we go and get Carlton Palmer.

 

 

 

 

*not factual at all and just a bit of a laugh.

But we got two for the price of one.

[SNSUN]

2 hours ago, S-Clarke said:

We have wasted some crazy money, certainly in recent years. That VVD sale should have helped us evolve the team in a time when we were in the post-koeman dip, but they gave 20 fucking million of it to MP to sign Carrillo and then sacked him a few weeks later ffs. One of the worst transfer windows I can ever remember.

The summer under Hughes wasn't much more of a success either. Wasted the rest of the VVD fortune on Vestergaard, Gunn, Elyounoussi. Shocking really, targeted the wrong sorts of player.

It was during the Koeman era that we got the right idea (mostly) by signing the best players from "lesser" leagues like Tadic, Mane, Forster and Pelle, and a couple of players that had previously been good but were overlooked by their clubs like Alderweireld and Bertrand. The following summer, bar Van Dijk and Romeu who ended up good, we brought in Austin, Clasie, Martina, Cedric (ish), Caulker and Juanmi and our transfer woes really stem from there. onwards. Thankfully the youth product of JWP came good when he did or we might not have been in the Prem this season.

[Saint86]

On 13/08/2022 at 10:12, S-Clarke said:

We have wasted some crazy money, certainly in recent years. That VVD sale should have helped us evolve the team in a time when we were in the post-koeman dip, but they gave 20 fucking million of it to MP to sign Carrillo and then sacked him a few weeks later ffs. One of the worst transfer windows I can ever remember.

The summer under Hughes wasn't much more of a success either. Wasted the rest of the VVD fortune on Vestergaard, Gunn, Elyounoussi. Shocking really, targeted the wrong sorts of player.

Agreed (F'ing obviously 🤣😭). Hopefully though we can stay up this season and all of a sudden the future looks a bit more rosy. We've definitely got some high potential/return players on the books now, and with Shields in charge of recruitment you have to think we won't waste that money again.

Edited 16 August, 2022 by Saint86

[spyinthesky]

What's the feeling about next year should we be relegated?
I guess the likes of JWP/KWP would go and some of the older players like Romeu who will be near the end of his contract.
Wonder if some of the younger players would hang around?