The business end of the Premiership has been dominated in recent years by the Big Four, namely Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool. Few teams have even come close to challenging that dominance, but Chelski boss Jose Mourinho believes that Spurs are now strong enough to challenge that group this coming season, and thus create a ‘Big Five’.
I have to say I agree with him, up to a point. Spurs have their strongest squad in more than a decade and will certainly give the big four a very good game this season. But I thought that to be one of the Prem’s so-called ‘big’ teams meant that you had a chance of actually winning the title, and I don’t think that Spurs are in that position… yet. They can’t win the title in 2007/08 – no way. They could conceivably finish in third or fourth, but consistency, or lack of it, will be their downfall, again. What say you? Are Spurs now genuine championship contenders, as Mourinho suggests? I’d suggest that rather than a big five, it’s more like a big three who can actually win the Prem: Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool, at a push.