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Spurs look to strong, winning 8 out of 9 PL games, getting Adbyor and Parker, and holding on to Modric made a big differences, they have a good seasoned team that wins badly and passively they look a good bet for 3rd.

fortunately for the Reds Chelsea and Arsenal had big setbacks this year. i think the first team to sort it self out first will get the final CL spot. the winter window will be vital for all.

I think we will edge it just, its going to be a good fight but Liverpool have what it takes to get in there.

Tottenham looked very good last night - Villa offered nothing - but it looks like their good run has already gone to their head with redknapp claiming they can oush city for the title

Wait til the second half of the season

It's too early to write Chelsea off and those predicting Arsenal's demise 2 months ago owe us some explanations

So, unless Newcastle's run continues - and i don't think it will - its between us, arsenal, tottenham and chelsea - 2 from 4

i agree that it will be one hard fight but an exciting one

for our part we need to start killing off weaker sides at home as our away form in the last couple of months has been fantastic

What planet are you on?

Newcastle have played only City and Spurs of the top teams, unless I'm mistaken, taking 1 point from the 2 fixtures. If they lose to any of the other top 7 teams (and we lose to City) and we then beat them we'll be level on points, and possibly ahead on goal difference. Suddenly they'll have fallen from 3rd to 7th and may still have to play one of Chelsea or Arsenal (where we've already played everyone in the top 10). They've done well, but I really can't see it lasting.

Obviously Arsenal have found their mojo, but that doesn't mean their defensive issues have been rectified. Chelsea go into the December period with huge question marks over their squad and their manager, and if we beat them again next week they could implode. Tottenham could easily fall off the bus with an injury or two (though they certainly seem the most settled squad right now, along with City), and we frankly have under-achieved thus far this season. Right now I'm looking at that table and thinking that it could be between us and Spurs for 3rd if we can start hitting the back of the net with the same regularity we hit the frame of the goal.

I also think (hope)spurs will go through a bad patch during second half of the season. There're definitely a bit stronger than last season and i know bale got injured for good while last year but still feel, like last few years, they will at some stage run out of steam. At the moment they look good, especially last night but the tempo they play at must be hard to maintain. even with the start we had last season we nearly caught them. I personally think top two seem to be able to out ahead at the moment and would say that we're in a group of 4 with spurs, arsenal, chelsea for other 2 cl spots

they played arasenal and got a draw

Mo Johnston?

Spurs squad has had time to gel, most of the players in the squad have played with each other for 2-3 seasons. Let our team gel, its not an instant process. Some people think its going to be a instant process, so therefore they want to easily write us off when the rebuilding is processing.

Which is mainly why I believe we have under-performed. I don't think we've had a game when that attacking and defensive balance has been spot on, whether that's due to injury or suspect tactics or a good game by our opponents on the day. If we ever get it right, and understand why we got it right, I think we can be a serious threat to the teams around us. What is helping us ironically is that the league is stronger at the top than it's been for a while, so there are more teams the media believe can beat us. It's never been safe to write off Liverpool when they're the underdog.