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I genuinely don't see what else West Ham should have done at the fag end of the Christmas period? 5 points from 4 games now undefeated in the last 3, playing for a new manager, at a side with deep rooted problems throughout the club, who thanks to those points are out of the relegation places...

It could be the negative tactics are actually improving the Premier League 'brand'. Now the big 6 have to assume their competition will win every other game, they have to go after each other, a la Arsenal v Chelsea. Let's be honest nobody in downtown Qingdao is watching Brighton v Bournemouth...

I'm no number cruncher but it's a shame those figures don't go back to Arsenal's 'invincibles' season. I wonder if/how City's dominance this year affects the numbers.

Manchester City won the league in 2011/12 after drawing 5 and losing 5 games. Currently Arsenal have already exceeded those figures, and City aside the other four are comfortably on course to do so as well. So it would seem there's potential more points available from the 'top 6' than 5 years...

So are you saying at no point in the past has a horrendously underperforming, under funded, totally out classed across the pitch, team like Newcastle were v City ever said, 'lock it up chaps and we'll try and get out of here with a point'?

What more so than:- 2011/12 2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 2016/17 seasons? (I couldn't be bothered to check further back) 5 of the top 6 places have been taken by the 'big 6'. There's some amazing outliers in that, Newcastle Southampton & Everton, but the point still stands, nothing's changed. It's...

Or all the other years in all the divisions? It is now the media has decided it's a thing.