Yeah, so easy to do that nobody's ever done it before.
Frankly, Liverpool had a lot of advantages, in hindsight: a settled squad, a manager with a full year under his belt and critically rivals that were in transition. Chelsea and both Manchester Clubs had both appointed new managers and were fighting on four fronts, whereas Arsenal are... well, they're Arsenal. Spurs were never contenders. Of course, they had a lot of disadvantages too, not being able to spend crazy amounts of money being one of them, but my point stands.
Compare that to Pulis. He had to come in and on day one make an impact. He had to turn around a horribly demoralised club with lacking any semblance of a goalscorer (the absolute most critical thing in a relegation battle) and lacking quality in key areas. I don't think you understand just how royally ****** we were. When Pulis came in we were stone dead last. We had won one game: against the equally useless Sunderland. We hadn't got ANY other points in our first ten games. Pulis' first game, we win, away from home. From there it only got better and he familiarised himself. He's a ******* magician.
Look, like I said earlier, Rodgers has done great things, but they're all things that could feasibly be accomplished. He took a team with a decent squad and a fantastic first team who were only really challenging on one front and made them play like champions. Liverpool's seventh place last season was something of a false one when looking at it now - all the people above them either changed their manager (the top three and Everton), lost one of the best players in the world AND changed their manager (Spurs) or were Arsenal (lol Arsenal) - but it is still a great achievement. A feasible achievement, but a great one nonetheless.
Pulis, on the other hand, pulled off something ridiculous. In the space of about four months, he took a team that were dead certs to go down, with no goalscorer, a misfiring defence and a midfield held together by one man, and turned them into a midtable club. It takes most clubs three or so years of progress and settled development to pull that off. What Pulis did is utterly unprecedented, even more so than taking a club from seventh to first.
It's all moot, of course, since Rodgers is going to win it, but it's not right that he will.
