Wet Over There

And sunny here. Taken on the way to football. Although I scored our first and created our second, ultimately our lot paid the price for missing too many chances. Although I wasn't one of those guilty of missing an open goal, I still should have scored when one-on-one with the keeper. He saved the first shot and then tipped the second over the bar while lying on the ground in a very Jim-Montgomery-1973-Cup-Final sort of way. We lost by one in the end. Just like Dundee United - took the lead but lost to an injury time goal in the end to confirm the relegation that has been on the cards for months. Typical that it should happen at Dens, home of city rivals Dundee and scene of United's greatest triumph . But at least Spurs' draw at Stamford Bridge confirmed Leicester's title. Although massive underdogs, and 5000-1 bet at the start of the season, it is still the case that their squad was assembled for £50 million and they have a billionaire owner. There is just so much money sloshing around the Premier League and still only eleven players on the pitch at the same time for each team that maybe we have reached a stage when the resources available to the top teams don't give them the advantage over the rest of the league it previously did. Or perhaps it is just a blip, like Nottingham Forest in the 1970s and the normal order will be restored next season. Although arguably for all the talk of 'greatest upset ever' could United's 1982-83 performance be up there. After all in my lifetime that United championship was only the third time a team outwith the Old Firm had won the league, compared to seven championship wins in England from teams other than the Big Four of Liverpool, Man U, Arsenal and Everton. Four teams who have shared 60 of 117 titles, with the other 57 shared by 20 different teams. Compared to Scotland where the Old Firm have won 101 of 118 titles and the other 17 are shared by just 9 teams. And since that United win, two titles for Aberdeen in the next two seasons are the only non-Old Firm wins - meaning that other than the Old Firm only three teams have won the Scottish League in my lifetime, sharing just five titles between them. Compared to 16 non-Big Four wins in England shared between 8 teams (albeit 6 in recent years shared between two current very wealthy new contenders, Chelsea and Man City).