The Premier League has always sold itself as a piece of cinema, a big-budget epic, an action franchise, a landscape of superheroes and supervillains. It makes for persuasive packaging, even if the reality has often been more prosaic, dominated by remakes and familiar star turns, Pep Guardiola’s Mission Entirely Probable Volume 8.
It still seems startling that 10 years have passed since the world’s most powerful league staged a three-way title race as close as the current season’s. But this one really does seem to be narrowing towards an actual blockbuster ending.
