Next week or maybe even sooner, Premier League clubs may make real that old sporting cliché: the six-pointer. They will introduce four-pointers, five-pointers and many other matches measured by decimal places up from and below three. They will introduce a system so grossly unfair it beggars belief. Yet plenty does in football these days.
On May 28, Premier League clubs will vote on a means to decide the season if the games cannot be completed. Favourite is a resolution called Weighted Points Per Game. The league will take each club’s home and away record separately, and work out both average points totals.