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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay at Craven Cottage

Liverpool’s title stumble shows strength of Premier League, not its weakness

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah reacts after missing a chance against Fulham.
Mohamed Salah shows his disappointment after missing a chance against Fulham. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Here it comes then. The much‑promised collapse. The improbable, but somehow also deserved and collectively willed disintegration of these champions by default. Something like that anyway. Tell you what though. Fulham are good aren’t they? And particularly so, it should be said, for a team that started the day 10th in an apparently mediocre league. Or is that not part of the story?

At the end of a fun, boisterous 3‑2 victory for Marco Silva’s excellent, vigorous upper‑midtable team the talk will of course be about Liverpool, and not necessarily in a very flattering way.

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