'Crazy' season? English top flight more predictable than on continent

Premier League being called the maddest for years. But analysis proves England's top-four clubs are more dominant than in other European leagues

And so another English football season with apologies to those supporters fast-twitching between hope and dread before the play-off finals is pretty much in the book. But really, the conclusion was written weeks ago. The journalist who called it "undoubtedly ... the most unpredictable and craziest of seasons", produced the highest can-can kicks, but he was not the only cheerleader. Sometimes the eulogies were so breathless you wondered whether oxygen masks should be compulsory in every Premier League press box.

But while the short-priced joint-favourites for the Premier League and League Cup, Manchester City, lifted both trophies and the FA Cup went to the fourth favourites, Arsenal in Spain the fanciful really did become fact. Who wasn't warmed by Atlético Madrid, the 100-1 underdogs for the title, shattering the duopoly of Real Madrid and Barcelona in a thrilling decider at Camp Nou?

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