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LINSEY | 6 Lessons Learned From the 2016-17 Premier League Season
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What are the big takeaways from this year’s Premier League season?
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What are the big takeaways from this year’s Premier League season?
A summer of poor spending had left the club stocked with players that did not care about the badge on their chest nor the supporters in the stands, and a dismal series of performances followed.
Columnist Kevin Linsey touches on what you might have missed in the soccer world over break, from World Cup expansion, to Bob Bradley’s firing.
When Abel Hernandez kicked the ball back towards his orange-clad teammates, Hull City’s Uruguayan striker made the first pass of the 2016-17 Premier League season. Perhaps the most prominent feature of this new season is the many excellent managers who have taken their talents to the Premiership over the summer. Let’s run the rule over each of the new arrivals and evaluate who will be deemed successful once the season’s last ball is kicked in May. Two weeks into the season, it seems like Manchester United’s Jose Mourinho is best positioned for instant success. Mourinho brings a pedigree of success, both in England with Chelsea FC and on the continent with Real Madrid, Porto and Inter Milan.
Columnist Kevin Linsey discusses the unprecedented run Leicester City made so far in the Premier League, starting the season with 5000-1 odds to win the league. The team sits at the top of the table currently.
A grueling 38-game season from August to May determines the Premier League champion. The teams play most weekends, with several additional games squeezed in over the holidays. Therefore, a good chunk of the season happens between early December and late January, which is inconveniently overlapped with winter break, devoid of Daily Sun soccer articles. As a result, I could have written this week’s article as a laundry list of everything that happened in the soccer world in the last seven weeks.