Blackburn, Wigan and Swansea tipped for the drop

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11Aug

Blackburn, Wigan and Swansea tipped for the drop

With the Premier League season about to kick off, the Life’s A Pitch panel has been predicting which clubs it thinks will get relegated. And unfortunately for fans of Blackburn and Wigan, along with newly promoted Swansea, they are the three teams with the most votes.

The view from certain panel members is that Blackburn and Wigan won’t be able to repeat their narrow escape this season, while Swansea’s open game will be a point of weakness.

While Martin Lipton of the Daily Mirror actually believes that QPR and Norwich are more likely to go down than Wigan and Swansea, he is convinced that Blackburn will say goodbye to top-flight football. “I don’t see how [Blackburn] can possibly stay up, I really don’t,” he explains.

“I think they are the weakest team, the weakest squad, [they have] the weakest leadership, and the weakest club. [It] doesn’t mean they’ll finish bottom, but they’re the weakest club in that division.”

Dominic Fifield of the Guardian really admires Swansea’s footballing philosophy but believes “it’s going to be really, really tough for them”.

“They won’t be able to out-football teams in the Premier League like they did in the Championship,” he says. “You do worry that if they are to be found wanting it will be on that front – that they won’t be able to adapt their game for certain situations. I hope they do well, but I think it’ll be tricky for them.”

Dominic’s other relegation picks were Blackburn and Wigan.

John Cross of the Daily Mirror also believes that Swansea, Blackburn and Wigan will be relegated. Of Wigan he says: “Wigan, in my eyes, have become the Coventry of the 80s and early 90s, that perennial team battling against the drop.

“Each year they defy gravity. I do think this year it’s going to have a stronger pull. You can’t keep on losing players, selling to balance the books, and bringing in new unproven players, like they’ve been doing and getting away with.”

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martinliptonsbumboy

I take it Martin Lipton, won’t be taking up the offer of a season ticket at Ewood this season. Don’t you just love being the underdog. By the way martin, how is it down Sarf?
Graceland38116

You Southern bias is showing through. Also your anti Blackburn Rovers
Rubbish
Graceland38116

you lot need to pick on a southern team for a change. this anti blackburn is getting boring boring. Well lets wait and see eh know alls
pastywarrior

Southern muppets, wigan have been written off for the past 3 years and there still going strong, yes they lost nzogbia but dont write them off, as for blackburn, its the biggest load of rubbish ever! No chance they will go down, get a grip!
cal

“And unfortunately for fans of Blackburn and Wigan, along with newly promoted Swansea”

I can’t describe the misfortune I am feeling caused by a bunch of southerners thinking my team will go down. It’s almost as bad as the real thing. What have I done to deserve this.
jaxs

Replace Swansea with Newcastle and Blackbun with Norwich and they won’t be far off
Boycott the Mirror.BRFC

Martin Lipton. How in a million years has he landed a job at an albeit tabliod newspaper. He is a knee jerk sensationalist and is regarded by real football journilists as a joke. Blackburn Rovers will surprise alot of people this season. Maybe Lipton will surprise us by actually researching footballing issues instead of looking for tittle tattle for his soap opera newspaper for the hard of thinking.
Gaz

Wigan predicted for the drop for the 7th year on the trot…proof enough of how much substance we should give to predictions at this stage of the year. All three teams will in all probability be in the mix but so will Norwich, QPR, Wolves and West Brom.
H.W.

coming from a Wigan fan is this news? We have been favorites to go down literally every year we have been in the prem and I guess this year is no different…
Hayzee

It’s laughable. Wigan haven’t even kicked a ball yet, and according to these self-proclaimed sages we are already for the drop and may as well throw our season tickets in the bin and drown our sorrows down at the local. If they have such vision and can see so far into the future then do me a favour. Ask them to use their inestimable powers and just look a couple of days into the future and pick me six lottery numbers.
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