Gravity weigh-in on another important football debate. Who has the most optimistic fans on Twitter this year?

To follow up on the success of our #MoyesOut vs. #WengerOut graph last month, we decided to dip our toe in the topical waters of premier league debate again. This time we were looking at the premier league’s (yet to be decided) top 4, and which of them had the most confident supporters on Twitter throughout the year. To do this we scraped Twitter mentions of users who had mentioned one of the top 4 teams, along with any number of variations around ‘win the league’. The results came out as expected – a lot of false hope from Arsenal fans towards the end of 2013, and a few peaks in mentions for Liverpool after the 5-0 Spurs thrashing. However, perhaps the biggest insight was the lack of conversation for Man City throughout the year – only 6% of all mentions had specifically implied that City would win the league, in comparison to 30% for Arsenal and 51% for Liverpool (13% for Chelsea). Whilst the results weren’t quite as overwhelming as our first graph, we still garnered over 12,000 views of the Gravity branded graph itself (according to imgur.com) and 167 upvotes (+83 comments) on the initial Reddit post.