My perfect final Premier League table | OneFootball

I was staring at the Premier League table, as you do.

Something that is a lot more captivating than it was not so long ago.

Seven wins in the last eight Premier League matches tends to have that effect.

Ten wins out of eleven in total for Newcastle United in all competitions.

What a brilliant manager Eddie Howe is!

Anyway, this fine wet and miserable Tuesday morning in January, the latest article on The Mag popped up.

It was by Bazoox and entitled ‘I then realised that Arsenal are now the club that I probably despise the most.’

I read through that and at the same time kept glancing at the Premier League table.

Which then led me to ponder, in an ideal world, ignoring all the points gained so far.

In an ideal world, how would I want these current 20 clubs to end up in the 2024/25 Premier League table in May?

So, as I say, ignoring points already gained, this is how in my dreams, the final table would look from these 20 clubs…

My perfect final 2024/25 Premier League table:

Newcastle United

Bournemouth

Ipswich

Brentford

Fulham

Southampton

Leicester

Wolves

Forest

Palace

Brighton

West Ham

Aston Villa

Man City

Everton

Spurs

Man U

Chelsea

Liverpool

Arsenal

Why?

Well, I would hope that you’d all agree that Newcastle United top of the table is something we’d all love to see. If not, I’d love to hear your reasoning for why you’d not want United to win the title???

To be honest, after that at the top end, I’m not really that bothered who comes next out of the next handful or so.

I suppose my choices are based of others towards the top, are based on who I don’t see as longer-term rivals for Newcastle United.

Then amongst those, I got a bit sentimental for Bournemouth due to Eddie Howe, the Cherries owing their very existence/survival to the great man.

Similar story with Ipswich in terms of sentimentality, the Sir Bobby Robson connection.

My big interest of course, apart from Newcastle United, are those at the very bottom.

That Bazoox article about Arsenal now the most despised.

I have to say that after thinking about it, I struggle to disagree.

I used to find them actually the least objectionable when it came to choosing between the Gunners, Liverpool, Chelsea and Man U. I liked Arsene Wenger (compared to Fergie etc!!!), they played great football, plus with the likes of David Dein and others in charge, Arsenal seemed to be a kind of decent club.

All I can say is that all of this has certainly gone down the toilet now!

The entire club is a total embarrassment, those who own and run the club, the despicable Mikel Arteta, a rancid collection of entitled former players, then their fanbase…they are an absolute unfunny joke. Like all clubs they have decent fans but honestly, so many of them are just a waste of oxygen. The entitlement and imagined injustices are simply off the scale, as for death threats to Michael Oliver and wanting to make public online where he and his family live. What kind of people are they?

Anyway, Arsenal finishing bottom of my perfect Premier League table.

Then it becomes tricky, so many other clubs and fanbases that I would loved to see ruined/suffer.

I had to find a place for Liverpool. Their fanbase has become increasingly insufferable in recent times and as they seem to be well run and have a good manager, we could do with getting them relegated and knocking them off their pedestal.

Then I have the monstrosity that is Chelsea to finish third bottom and be relegated.

No matter how many of their hotels, training grounds, women’s teams, that they sell to themselves, I think relegation would absolutely finish them off financially, even these latest dodgy owners could find accountants to allow them to keep spending whatever they want.

I can’t believe that I haven’t found a relegation place for Man U, would have to be the following season. I suppose I see them as such a badly run club, with arrogant greedy clowns in Ratcliffe and the Glazers making them a laughing stock, no matter how much money they continue to rake in from their gloryhunter fanbase, they will still struggle.

Tottenham are another despicable club and entitled fanbase, only by comparison to Arsenal do they not look as bad as they should.

The scouse mackems? Yes, would absolutely love them to join their real mackem mates in the lower leagues, but that will have to wait.

Man City? I think that everything is finally catching up with them and unlike others, I think these 115 Premier League charges are going to stick. What they have done is far far far beyond overspending across a few seasons. Hopefully it will be a bonus relegation for them, as well as three others, allowing four to go up from the Championship, so long as that doesn’t let the Mackems up by default.

So there you have it, my ideal final Premier League table.