Premier League vulnerabilities add to the intrigue among a putative Big Six | Jonathan Wilson


Most people’s ideal would be for a tight top-flight but part of football’s appeal is the drama – and that requires weakness as well as strength

What would you like a league table to look like at the end of the season? Forget who you support, forget who you dislike, forget personalities and tactics and prejudices, if you turned up in an alien land and were given a subscription to watch every game in their league season, what would be your ideal? Most people, I’m guessing, would want it to be tight, would want the season to go down to the wire to sustain the interest, maybe so that on the final day every team would have a chance of success.

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