If Manchester City beat Chelsea on Saturday, they will win the 2020-21 Premier League. And maybe, to save time, we could give them the 2021-22 edition, too. It’s theirs already. Everyone says so.
Just as this one, that City are winning, was going to be Liverpool’s; and Liverpool’s was going to be Manchester City’s third in a row.
It’s the hardy annual of English football. Watch a good team claim the title and then announce they will rule for the next decade. Except that the recent history of this league suggests nothing of the sort.