To mark the start of the 2023/24 Premier League season, let’s briefly step aside from the sportswashing posts to assess how this season might go:
A few things to note:
- Bookmakers are a little gun-shy on outsiders since Leicester’s incredible 2016 victory. No club this year is given the 5000-1 odds the Foxes won with that season — Luton are the least favoured team this year at 3000-1.
- Just seven teams are given greater than a 1% chance of success: the financially mighty six sides who signed up for the European Super League, added to by Newcastle and their Saudi-stocked coffers.
- Only nine of the twenty teams have better than a 0.15% chance of victory. The seven above plus Brighton and Aston Villa.
Still, best league in the world, isn’t it?