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Arne Slot looks on prior to the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and West Ham United FC at Anfield on April 13, 2025(Image: Liverpool FC/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

This is arguably the worst Premier League season in the history of the competition.

The desire to devalue and denigrate the achievements of bitter rivals is a failing from which Liverpool fans are not immune.

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But perceived tribalism is now being imparted by those who should really know an awful lot better than to be sucked into, or actively promote, such bizarre narratives.

Let's take emotion out of the equation for now and just deal with cold, hard, indisputable raw facts.

Liverpool currently stand 13 points clear of Arsenal at the Premier League summit with Sunday's 2-1 home win over West Ham United moving them on to 76 points from 32 games.

Only 11 teams in Premier League history have taken more points at this stage of the season.

Given the defeat to Fulham earlier this month - only a second loss in the entire top-flight season - Liverpool have taken 12 points from their last five games.

The teams in 14th and 15th, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, remain very much in the hunt for the Europa League.

And above them are Everton, who at the weekend became only the third team this season to win in the Premier League at third-placed Nottingham Forest, held second-placed Arsenal to two draws and, of course, took a point at Goodison against neighbours Liverpool.

That England has already secured an extra place in the Champions League for next season highlights how well Premier League teams have done this season in European competition.

But while Arsenal thrashed reigning European champions Real Madrid last week, they evidently have been incapable of challenging on two major fronts.

They were not normal campaigns.

More representative, and a useful comparison for this season, is Liverpool's title win of 1982/83, the second of three in succession.

With seven games remaining, the Reds had opened up a 16-point lead at the top of the table having been eliminated from Europe in the March and recently featured in the League Cup final.

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They took only two more points, losing five times.

Nobody remembers either team as stumbling to the crown.

Liverpool aren't there yet this season, and Slot will hope his side can seal the title as soon as possible, with only six more points required from the final six games.
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