Manchester City’s superb run has coincided with a steady central defensive partnership that has freed up João Cancelo
Well, that didn’t take long. For a while either side of Christmas, the Premier League title race felt like an open-door kind of joint, with a revolving cast of regular faces taking a turn to rest an elbow on the bar. Across the opening 21 games of the season, seven different teams had a spell at the front of the queue. For all the strains of football in the time of plague, the Premier League’s upper reaches felt a dizzy, fun kind of place, more crowded speakeasy than exclusive club.
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