FYI - Barclays U21 Premier League Tables

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NATIONAL GROUP 1
POS		LP	CLUB	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1		(1)	West Ham U21	11	8	1	2	21	10	11	25
2		(2)	Arsenal U21	11	6	2	3	18	11	7	20
3		(3)	Norwich U21	11	5	1	5	11	19	-8	16
4		(4)	Reading U21	10	4	3	3	24	16	8	15
5		(5)	West Brom U21	11	4	3	4	17	18	-1	15
6		(6)	Everton U21	10	4	1	5	14	18	-4	13
7		(7)	Blackburn U21	10	2	3	5	11	16	-5	9
8		(8)	Bolton U21	10	1	2	7	9	17	-8	5

NATIONAL GROUP 2
POS		LP	CLUB	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1		(1)	Tottenham U21	8	4	2	2	31	19	12	14
2		(2)	Newcastle U21	8	4	1	3	22	20	2	13
3		(3)	Man Utd U21	7	3	3	1	13	11	2	12
4		(4)	Southampton U21	8	3	3	2	15	15	0	12
5		(5)	Aston Villa U21	7	2	3	2	15	14	1	9
6		(6)	Sunderland U21	7	2	3	2	9	8	1	9
7		(7)	Stoke U21	9	1	1	7	8	26	-18	4

NATIONAL GROUP 3
POS		LP	CLUB	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1		(1)	Liverpool U21	8	6	2	0	22	7	15	20
2		(2)	Wolverhampton U21	10	4	3	3	16	19	-3	15
3		(3)	Middlesbrough U21	9	3	3	3	13	14	-1	12
4		(4)	Fulham U21	8	3	1	4	8	12	-4	10
5		(5)	Man City U21	9	1	5	3	13	13	0	8
6		(6)	Chelsea U21	8	2	2	4	15	17	-2	8
7		(7)	Crystal Palace U21	8	2	2	4	12	17	-5	8

 

 

The positions of Chelsea and Manchester City. Hmmm....

 

OTBC

[swindonyellow 0]

Ha..... Typical Norwich. Only we can be 3rd in the league and still have a minus goal difference!!!Good to see the young ones doing well though.

[Yobocop 1,099]

No surprise arsenal and west ham running away with it

[nutty nigel 7,534]

It gets complicated in January for the knock out stage. It''s explained here : -

 

http://elitedevelopmentblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-barclays-under-21-premier-league.html#!/2012/08/the-barclays-under-21-premier-league.html

 

 

[crabbycanary 2]

Blimey! Spurs against Newcastle would be worth seeing. Guaranteed goals! Perhaps once Hughton left both Clubs, they threw the defending manuals away!

[norfolkchance1 0]

I was flicking through the channels on sky last monday and came across the Liverpool channel and they were showing their u21 away game against Wolves live. They won 5-1 with Pacheco playing - you would have thought that was a massive step down for someone who has played some league football, but when they interviewed him he didn''t view it as that. There was a few others in Liverpools team that I''d seen playing in and around their first team as well. So I think the idea of this sort of league is really helpful and seems more hungry than reserve team football used to be.

[Gingerpele 0]

I''ve only ever seen a report of us winning one game, so surprised to see we''ve won more than that...

[Yellowbeagle 0]

I dont care if we finish bottom if there are one or two players who have what it takes to make a real break through, thats what this is all about at the end of the day. Fingers crossed that this U21 system leads to some much needed outfield young players comming through to the first team with the real ability to stand shoulder to shoulder with the players we pay transfer fee''s for.