EPL nearly always throws a few surprises early in the season.
With the warmer weather in the UK goals are plentiful, passing is fluid and overs hit on a regular basis.As the winter approaches goals dry up and upsets occur regurlarly.Im looking at what I see as the story so far.

Chelsea.

Ancelotti has made a solid start.With Drogba and Essien back from injury Chelsea has more power, strength and matchwinners across the field without relying on Lampard. Now they have a perm manager, Terry has resolved his situations and Cole(Mr cheryl cole) has resolved his personal issues they are playing good football again. I think they will continue and so long as Drogba and Lampard are injury free they have a good chance.
The word will be consistency and back them at home where you can.

Tottenham

Harry Redknapp is an outstandingly good manager, He has a frontiline shorter than the umpa-lumpers but is scoring goals galore. Corluka,Pavlychenko,Crouch,Bentley cant make the starting XI. Strength in depth at every position 4 good strikers I think a top 4 finish is not out of the question, I think they will remain a solid home bet.

Man City
- Robinho,Tevez,Adebayor, Santa Cruz, a WC strikeforce, now Mark hughes is adding grit to flair with Barry,Lescott,Given,Toure and more will follow, it may take some time to gel but i think some weeks they will be unstoppable against sides incapable of keeping possession.Too much last season they had flair but no ball winners and were duly rubbish away from home. A very solid home bet but will take time to cover handicaps regurlarly.Be wary on away games.

Arsenal.

Watched them closely, they are playing amazingly well. Gallas is back to form, stripped of the captaincy he has put that behind him and bonded more closely with his teammates.
Van persie has found form after injury, Eduardo has score 5 in 7 since returning from injury who i think is more fluid than adebayor. Rosicky is back to add flair, Arshavin is the new Cristiano Ronaldo and Vermalannen looks way better than kolo toure. With cash to spend and the young kids like Diaby, Vela,song and Eboue coming of age ithink this will be aresnals bets seaon for a while,Fabregas is injured but they have adjusted to this before and a Cup winning season surely for Wenger.

Man Utd.No ronaldo no problems so far, too early to see the cracks so ill reserve judgement.
Liverpool- Inconsistent, Benitez hasnt woken up neither has his team, prob get stronger after Christmas.

Relegation Fodder

Hull City.
A good start last yr tailed off, i cant see them lasting this yr as teams have grown wise of their style.Expect them to drop.

Burnley
This yrs Hull City- teams will adjust to Burnley later but the newbies will likely be mid table at Xmas.A few more surprises as Burnley get a few more 3 pointers against top teams being complacent.

Stoke- Newly aquired Tuncay should get them goals, their home form will decide their fate. Value will remain solely backing Stoke at home in key spots.

Birmingham city- Stuggled in the Carling Cup, unable to score goals a tough yr expected.

Portsmouth.
No Crouch,Defoe,,Johnson,Mendes,Davis- no strength in depth, as the season goes on they need new faces are they are in real trouble.Even Sol campbell would rather play for notts county than pompey