Saints fans can take heart, a look back over the years of the Premier League suggests that there will only be one of three teams who can now possibly win it.
Southampton Football Club Premier league Winners 2014/15 !!!!!!!
Well we can all dream, however this is not a far fetched notion as it now stands, indeed if we take a look back over the Premier league at this stage over every other season, then statistics tell us that Saints could win the League but the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool,Man Utd etc won't.
Saints sit in second place with 22 points after 10 games, 4 behind leaders Chelsea and 2 ahead of Manchester City, if we look at any Premier League table since its inaugural season in 1992/93 then we find that no team has won the Premier League with less than 18 points after 10 games, bad news for Arsenal back in 4th with a mere 18, but good news for Saints who if history is to repeat itself are one of only three teams who stand a chance of winning the ultimate prize.
Indeed Manchester United's 18 points after 10 games in both 1992/93 and again in 2002/03 is the lowest points total at this stage of a season that the eventual champions have had, although last season Manchester City came close with only 19 points after 10 games.
So good news for Saints fans, but bad news for Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool and any other team with title aspirations, who now need to completely turn the history books on their heads if they are to claim another title and whose main job for the rest of the season will surely be to look to take points off of Chelsea and City and enable the third team in the race for the title to come in on the blind side.
Last weekend was massive in the title challenge race, if Manchester City had lost to their oldest rivals then with only 17 points on the board they would have had to graciously acknowledge their title challenge for this season would now be an impossible task and now only Saints could be capable of catching Chelsea by May 24th in what would have been a two horse sprint for the finish line.
Our job now is to remain focused and hope that the also ran's can help us out, City are holding on to our coat tales and have a tough couple of games before arriving at St Mary's on the 30th November a bad month could see them drop out of the title race and leave us to battle it out tongue in cheek with Chelsea.