Do you have one for the other end of the table Matt?    Will Southampton climb off the bottom and away from relegation?!  

No doubt at all, with style and panache top 10 here we come

Bad news for Chelsea? The top team after 3 games doesn't win according to the trend

Interesting chart and good observation, BarcaShow. It would be cool to see the last ten years, or the last 20, to see how the trends / correlations progress over longer periods

Yeah, this is definitely too small of a sample size to be able to justly say anything for sure. I am sure we can do some research to find out though, soccernet keeps pretty detailed past stats. It would take a little time and effort but using the league tables and the past results we can manufacture something more in depth.

I'll probably do it when I am staring at some textbook and nothing seems to want to stick to my memory

I personally can't take this into full consideration only because I have an itchy feeling that there are going to be some major (and I mean major) signings come the next transfer window, which would dramatically alter some the top title-contending teams if they were to happen