“On Tuesday, we forced The Athletic’s writers to consider whether any team can catch Arsenal, putting forward the cases for and against their eight closest challengers. ‘No, they can’t be caught. There is no way a four-point gap can be made up with only 29 games to go,’ responded one reader. And with only 24 per cent of the season gone, it’s right that much can still change. But this is also the time of the season when the underlying numbers start to offer a truer indication of a team’s strengths and weaknesses, and we approach the point where the table changes less than you might expect (more on that another day). …”
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“In the aftermath of losing his first Premier League match as Nottingham Forest head coach at Bournemouth at the weekend, Sean Dyche claimed his new side were not yet in the physical condition he wanted. ‘I am not knocking any other manager,’ Dyche said after the 2-0 defeat. ‘But I have been in the Premier League for 11 years and I know where I want my team to be physically. I don’t think the players are where they need to be for my way of working.’ …”
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