Flawed, frenetic yet somehow still glorious, the top flight returns and so do the fans. It looks like a four-horse title race and a cast of six will be fighting to avoid the drop
at Wembley, exploding not just England’s fragile pretensions to supremacy but our fleeting illusions of national unity, here comes the riposte. The return of the Premier League to our multiple portable devices marks a return to English football not as we would dreamily like it to be, but as it really is: flawed and fierce, fuelled by personality and narrative and billionaires and gambling sponsorships, intensely tribal, consumed by petty arguments and – whisper it – the envy of the world.
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