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Grey Whitebloom, Max Mallow & Tom Gott

Ten Reasons to Be Excited for the 2025–26 Premier League Season

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The Premier League has been inundated with a glut of expensive signings. | Jack Thomas/WWFC/Wolves/Getty Images (Arias); Carmen Mandato/FIFA/Getty Images (Cherki); Manchester United/Getty Images (Cunha); Serena Taylor/Newcastle United/Getty Images (Elenga); Stuart Macfarlane/Arsenal FC/Getty Images (Gyokeres); Jacques Feeney/Offside/Offside/Getty Images (Kudus); Robbie Jay Barratt - AMA/Getty Images (Pedro); Joe Prior/Visionhaus/Getty Images (Wirtz); Ian Horrocks/Sunderland AFC/Getty Images (Xhaka)

This summer marked the 40th anniversary of English football’s nadir. At a time of rampant hooliganism, fatal stadium tragedies and a ban from all European competition, an editorial in The Sunday Times infamously derided football as “a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people.”

Four decades on, English football has emphatically shifted to the opposite extreme.

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