Huddersfield came up in the strangest manner, with
a negative goal difference and having lost 15 of their 46 games, including six of the last 10.
It is a sad state of affairs that every club in the Premier League outside of the top six has
a negative goal difference.
But the highest - ever
negative goal difference finish in the English top flight takes us back to the very first year of the Premier League.
Over the last few years, the highest - finishing team with
a negative goal difference has typically ended the season around eighth or ninth, a slight increase on the late 70s, 80s and early 90s, when somewhere between 10th and 13th was more normal.
I agree that it was fine margins against swansea, but it comes after many missed opportunities to get clear ahead at top of PL, losing to a manu reserve team, only winning three of our last ten matches, losing three matches in a row and
negative goal difference in last ten matches.
And when you see that our north London rivals Tottenham are on the same points as us with
a negative goal difference and some truly awful performances, it just does not seem right.
Not exact matches
There were no
negatives from the game; we kept a clean sheet and scored three
goals and have now obtained a better
goal difference than Olympiakos.
This was perhaps the most satisfying aspect of Tomas Rosicky's
goal to win Sunday's North London derby: yes, it was a nice hit and all, but more importantly it left Tottenham in fifth with a
goal difference of
negative - 1.
Since
goal difference began to matter, no team has ever finished sixth in the English top flight with
negative numbers.
Perhaps the most interesting comes from Brazil, where Coritiba FC were crowned champions in 1985 with a
goal difference of
negative - 2, having conceded 27
goals and only scored 25.
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The
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