“The 2025-26 Premier League season was a strange one — the bottom-half clubs were good, the top-half clubs were inconsistent, and there was a major focus on intensity and set pieces at the expense of interplay and creativity. Three hundred and eighty games is a lot to digest. But what if the whole Premier League season could be boiled down into 10 matches, with each side featuring once? Well, it would look something like this. …”
NYT/ATH – Michael Cox