As I promised, I will be talking about the relegation battle that involved all the teams that situated at the bottom half of the table.

Stoke City and Portsmouth managed to grab a crucial win and safely out of the relegation zone for the time being, especially for Stoke City, the beat their rival Middlesbrough whose also involed in this relegation dogfight. Hull City, West Bromich, Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Blackburn and Newcastle are the potential teams that will be relegated. If they want to had any chance of playing in the top league next season, they need to produce results and win as many games as possible and hope that other teams fail to win.

Here are the 3 teams that I think will be relegated.

Hull City had a gd start during the early season and failed to produce consistent performance, they will even in the 3rd spot around October 2008 but as the season goes, they can't really goes all the way and from snatching for a Champion league fight to now a relegation fight. Hull City weekend lost to Wigan is really not a gd time to lose, because both Portsmouth and Stoke City have won and closing up the gap, Hull City problem is that their defense is not solid enough, they kept on making silly mistakes and allow opponent to score goal in a gd position, I think with Hull City performance, I do think they will be relegated.

Middlesbrough had a dissappointing season and had a real chance of playing coca-cola championship next season, they failed to win Stoke City on weekend proved to be vital for Boro, Middlesbrough are now 27pts and are 4pts away from the safety zone, although this gaps look small, but with Boro poor performance, this 4pts are going to be hard to close up. Boro main problem is their attacking. 12M signing Afonso Alves fail to perform as expected and so does Aliadiere and Tuncay Sanli. I do think Boro will be relegated

Next up is the bottom of the table West Bromich, they are the only one which I think will confirm relegated because at this stage of the competition, they are 7pts away from the safety zone and really I do think they can't catch up anymore.


This is just my prediction and really every teams that are in the bottom half have a chance to relegation, it depends on the performance from the remaining 8 games and what I list out is the teams that will have a higher chance of relegation (except West Bromich which I do think they will be the first to relegated). Not only the title race is interesting, the relegation battle is as interesting as the title race.