Perhaps its not the best league in the world but who wants a runaway leader? We’ve no idea what’s coming next in Europe’s most compelling competitionA third of the way through the Premier League season and it is still to take shape. There is a pleasingly faded-fashioned look to the table,with the top seven separated by six points. To put that into context, 12 games into final season, and the leaders Chelsea had six points more than Manchester City do now and the gap to seventh was 14. The usual suspects – or some of the usual suspects – will presumably kick on but this promises to be a closer,less predictable race than for years.
It’s not possible always to construct precise comparisons because of teams having games in hand (and looking at the spread of the top seven is an arbitrary metric besides) but it’s probably objective to say not since 1999-2000 own the top seven been separated by such a narrow margin at this stage.
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Source: theguardian.com