However, and whenever, the 2019-20 Premier League season ends, it will go down as the most remarkable campaign in the competition's history, with football suspended for the first time since World War II due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
But prior to this unprecedented season, few Premier League campaigns had been as barmy as 2004-05, when conventions were ripped up and troublemaking footballers hit the front pages as well as the back.
On April 2, 15 years ago, Newcastle team-mates Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer were involved in an extraordinary fight with each other on the St James' Park pitch as they slumped to a 3-0 defeat by Aston Villa.