Chelsea look like early title contenders and can win the Premier League thanks to Eden Hazard, Europa League football and lack of competition

WITH the 2018 Premier League now over a month old, the table is beginning to take shape.

By the time European football comes around, the dust begins to settle and league positions take on a familiar feel.

Chelsea, as we would have hoped if not expected, have been punching at the top since day one with five wins in five.

Not to get too carried away, but it looks as if we really CAN win the league this season. And here’s five reasons why...

No Expectations

Possibly the most important of all reasons, there is absolutely no expectation on the manager, group of players or club as a whole to win the Premier League this season.

After missing out on top four last year - a mammoth 30 points behind Manchester City - this was always going to be a rebuilding year.

A change of style, identity, new manager and players, and usually that all takes time.

Ideas take time to bed in, squads take a season or two to make your own. See Klopp, Guardiola and Pochettino as prime examples.

At best our pre-season goal would have been to make the top four this season – no-one, not even the most ardent supporter, was talking about the title.

Primo Anno Italiano

Football has a strange way of repeating cycles - thing that happen, will happen again.