Welcome to the Craziest Premier League Season Ever!
For many years, the Premier League title has been a closed shop. Not quite as closed as Ligue 1, Series A, or the Bundesliga, but reserved for a few elite clubs. Unless your Liverpool, Manchester City, Chelsea, or Manchester United, you’re probably not going to win the title. Yes, Leicester City did it in 2015, but there’s a reason that’s considered one of the greatest sporting achievements of all-time.
It turns out the Premier League is incredibly hard to win. Since its inception in 1992, only seven clubs have lifted the trophy (Blackburn and Arsenal joining those already mentioned). Seasons are defined by four-to-six clubs dominating the rest of the league and one-or-two leading the pack. However, the 2020/2021 season is different… this one is up for grabs.
If you’re laying a wager on the season’s Premier League champion at Rhode Island sports betting venues, it’s no easy task. There are seven teams from Manchester City in 1st to Everton in second who have a genuine chance of winning. Sure, some have more chance that other, but the field is open.
If teams win their game in hands, there will be just seven points separating first for third. Let’s not forget Arsenal and Chelsea sit just below that group of seven clubs and are certainly not completely out of the running. This is without doubt the craziest Premier League season ever, but it is certainly not a unique situation in Europe.
In fact, in this rarest of seasons hampered by a packed fixture list, the historic apple cart amongst Europe’s top league’s is being disrupted. In Spain, Barcelona and Real Madrid have dominated the league but this season are well short of the pace. It’s not the fact Athletic Madrid top La Liga, its that Barcelona and Real Madrid are so far off the pace.
Barcelona is sitting mid-table while Real Madrid are second, albeit seven points off their city rivals who have a game in hand. This looks like a rare year where the Real Madrid/Barcelona duopoly is broken in Spain.
Something similar is happening in Serie A, where Juventus have won the last 9 titles. The club is in poor form this season, allowing the Milan clubs of Inter and AC to rush to the top of the league. It’s to early to say Juventus won’t win the league, but it’s looking increasingly likely other clubs can sustain their form across the season.
It’s worth noting it is business as usual in some European leagues. Over in Germany, the Bundesliga remains Bayern Munich’s play thing with the Bavarian giants typically dominating proceedings. In France it looked like this weird season would even claim the billionaires of PSG who run a monopoly over the Ligue 1 title. However, the Paris club is slowly recovering from a poor first half to the campaign and looks nailed on to win another title.
However, it seems uncertainty is the new norm during the 2020/2021 season and who knows that the remainder of the campaign has in store in the Premier League and beyond.
