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Champions League. But rather artificial to think that any team will win all 26 games against non top 6 while losing all 12 against them. The point is really a simple one: the widening disparity of the top teams against the bottom makes the bottom teams look more crap than they might have done...

It's 78 isn't it?

It's not binary - one is function of the other. The bottom teams appear more crap because the top 5.5 (let's include 0.5 Man U for the moment) beat them nearly all the time; leaves 26 fixtures to get points from.

And relegated teams had no more than 16 points at this stage: 14/15 QPR 14 Hull 13 Burnley 12 15/16 Newcastle 13 Norwich 13 Villa 6 16/17 Middlesbrough 15 Hull 12 Sunderland 11 17/18 Stoke 16 WBA 13 Swansea 9 Safety is not nailed on but would have to be an almighty loss of form for us to be...