This year’s English Premier League may have been packed with excitement, goals and skills the like of which no other league regularly hosts across all its teams, but the title race has been done since around November. Liverpool have been as ruthless as they were last season, maybe adding a shade more cold-bloodedness along the way.

This season, however, Manchester City’s absent defence has left them porous, and while Leicester, Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have all shown patches of great form, individual performances of greatness do not win a league season. To do that you need one of two things, and they are 1) consistency or 2) a complete lack of consistency across the entire division.

What are the chances of the latter, we hear you ask? We can only reply ‘You must not have been watching The Championship this season.’

As the EFL Championship neared Christmas, the apparent narrative had West Brom and Leeds United heading up without a challenge, sat as they were 11 and 10 points clear of the playoff places.  Since the festive period, however, Leeds have fallen apart, taking a measly nine points from 30 on offer across their last 10 games. West Brom have done better, but not by much and Slaven Bilic’s side are looking over their shoulders too.