A humiliated Everton side offered the perfect tonic to Sir Alex Ferguson's claims that the English Premiership is "a hell of a league", which were based on the fact that Arsenal went unbeaten last season and Chelsea lost just once this year with one match left, suggesting that a club "cannot afford any more than three defeats in a season."
Tell me this: How is a league where leaders Chelsea are 11 points ahead of second-place Arsenal and 20 over third-place Man United, where Arsenal blew fourth-place Europe-bound Everton (behind by 22 points) away with a 7-0 scoreline, where an average Everton side without a single striker bagging more than 7 goals all year can scrap their way into the Champions League, "a hell of a league"?
As it stands now, the unprecedented amount of cash injected into Chelsea has swung the pendulum from a perennial two-horse race between Man United and Arsenal to everybody trying to catch Chelsea in vain. We didn't even see the transition period where a three-way battle between the top three might have generated more interest.
Mind you, the continental leagues aren't doing so well either. Roma and Lazio have fallen to midtable in Serie A, whereas Barcelona and Real Madrid are leaving everyone else in the dust in La Liga. Up north, Celtic and Rangers are neck-in-neck in the Scottish Premier League, Celtic with a measly two-point lead with 2 matches still to play, but Rangers are ahead of third-place Hibernian by 26 points.
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