This article examines the worst calendar year performances by the Premier League's Big Six clubs since 2009, highlighting the teams' struggles and analyzing the reasons behind their poor results.
Calendar year stats. Hmm. Not a thing, are they? In football? We don’t work in calendar years in football, do we? We’ve got a little thing we like to call seasons. There’s a bit of grey area around when precisely one ends and the next starts but we can all agree it’s not bloody January. It’s in the summer, isn’t it? The football seasons? Not January. However. Do you know when calendar year stats are a thing? When they are funny. Because that trumps all.
And you know what’s funny? Big football clubs showing the absolute entirety of their arse.So for that and no other reason other than the fact it’s now somehow 2025, here are the worst ever calendar-year efforts from Big Six clubs in the Big Six era. Shout at us if you want, but that era begins here in 2009, because that was the first time the Big Six were the top six in a calendar year, and despite the notable efforts below that has generally remained the case in most years since.Perhaps harshly included here because the points-per-game isn’t horrendous in that Covid-impacted year but the overall number of points is still very bad and placed Mikel Arteta’s side below both Southampton and Everton in the annual table. Arsenal were actually unbeaten in the league in 2020 up until the pandemic paused the action in March, but having begun the year with a win over Manchester United, had drawn far too many winnable games against your Palaces, your Burnleys and your Sheffield Uniteds. Project restart began with defeats at Man City and Brighton with further losses at Spurs and Villa as the Gunners limped home in eighth. But they did win the FA Cup, which remains for now Arteta’s only silverware for all his good works. That trophy success didn’t translate instantly to improved league form, though, with the delayed start of the 2020/21 season featuring eight defeats in 16 games for the Gunners before the turn of the year.A seismic year for Spurs, but in hindsight it turns out to have been for all the wrong reason
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