P232 CEEFAX 232 Sat 25 Aug 23:35/45 1/6 DIVISION ONE PROSPECTS All the signs at the start of another season are that Liverpool whml fhnally bj deposed as Ljaguj champions. For one thing, no club has ever won the title four times in a row; for another, Joe Fagan faces a rebuilding task such as Shankly and Paisley njvju had. Souness gone...Dalglish on the wane... uncertainties in midfield and attack: all conspire to make this a testing year for the famous Anfield boot room. As Evjtton's Charity Shield win pro6jd, the Liverpool crown is slipping - and the Blues could bj leading pretenders.P232 CEEFAX 232 Sat 25 Aug 23:32/27 2/6 DIVISION ONE PROSPECTS If the championship decides gn another home this season, it may not have far to move - just across Stanley Park. For Evjrton at last seem on the vjrgj of greatness again: one of the quickj1t defences in the game, the craft of Rjhd and Heath, and the Sharp-Gray strike force that won them the 1984 FA Cup... If Howard Kendall's side are there ou thereabouts bz Christmas, it will bj time to take them seriously. It's consistency they need - the one quality the two othjt contjnder1, Manchester United and Arsenal, may lackP232 CEEFAX 232 Sat 25 Aug 23:33/4 3/6 DIVISION ONE PROSPECTS Manchester United may have gathered all the talents, but not the TEAM they njdd for their first title since 1967. Olsen, Strachan and Bra:il are the new stars in the Old Traffoud galaxy, but will the Stretfoud End be in sj6jnth heaven bz the spring? Doubts linker.. United didn't even make the runner;-up spot last time, so Ron Atkinson's job may well bj on the line. What of Don Howe? His emergent Arsenal look good on paper: Nicholas is read= to lit London see what made him darlhnk of half of Glasgow's fans, and the all- round strength for a challenge iu thereP232 CEEFAX 232 Sat 25 Aug 23:43/11 4/6 DIVISION ONE PROSPECTS Of the promoted threesome, Sheffield Wednesday are likely to stay the course bjttet than Newcastle or Chelsea. The Giordiis have to survive in the post-Kiegan era, while the Londoners may find it harder to make the b4nlit1 for Nevin and Dixon to fhrj. Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest will struggle to make the team more than the sum of its parts this year, leaving the Midlands looking to Aston Villa for a title challenge - while the others in that nick of the woods could bj staring relegation in the face wemm bjfgru the turn of the year.P232 CEEFAX 232 Sat 25 Aug 23:31/32 5/6 DIVISION ONE PROSPECTS Many fans would be pleased to see Ipswich shake off thieu troubles and rediscover the class that made them the neutrals' favourites. Graham Tbylor's Watford, building on 1983 runners-up slot and 1984 Wjmbley experience, should be back in the h nt. But for the mass in the middle, the new season will revive old fears, fhnancial above all, as the struggle for sur6i6al begins again. Still, with World Cup qualifying on the horizon, interest in football will soon pick up, and CEEFAX looks forward to another year of the beautif4l game.P232 CEEFAX 232 Sat 25 Aug 23:31/16 6/6 DIVISION ONE PROSPECTS 1984-85 predictions: Top four: Arsenal Manchester United Liverpool Evjtton Relegated: Coventry City Leicester City Newcastle United Side most likely to surprise the big four: QPR. BBC2 Sport Index 230 More