Brentford and Brighton are showing everyone how it should be done. Everton and Southampton are irrefutably not. And Liverpool have lost their Midas touch...
The last team to beat Liverpool, Manchester City and Man Utd in the same Premier League season was Leicester in 2020/21. Before them, Southampton and West Ham, both in 2015/16, were the most recent clubs to achieve that feat. Each finished no lower than 7th in those respective seasons and, at the time, all were praised as chief applecart upsetters who had bridged that Big Six gap through sensational scouting and impeccable coaching.
Yerry Mina, an unused Everton substitute, cost £27.2m alone. Against perhaps the most carelessly extravagant spenders in Premier League history, Brighton proved that it is not huge investment but smart investment, both on the pitch and off it, which pays dividends.In his defence, Harry Kane did stress that “it’ll take some time to get over”. The World Cup penalty miss will always linger in his subconscious, striking with pangs of regret at the most inopportune times.
Then Kane happened. His opening goal was a simple header born of excellent movement but that second soon after was pure, uncut Harry: starting a move from deep having drifted to the right, making a difficult first touch seem effortless and instantly shooting low and hard across the keeper. If the noise that ball made as it struck the net could be translated it would be onomatopoeic for Kane’s majesty.
But a stunning promotion season did little to persuade or convince onlookers that Fulham had changed their top-flight ways. They would return from whence they came soon enough, completing a hat-trick of instant relegations under numerous different managers.
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