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The Premier League is rich, but there’s no jeopardy and no real sense of excellence, at least not on the pitch

Ladies and gentlemen we have now reached our cruising altitude.

Just don’t expect much to happen for the next three months.

So much for that excitingly bumpy, turbulence-fuelled Premier League season, all perky upstarts, crumbling certainties and unexpected shifts of altitude, which really did seem to be shaping up just a few short weeks ago.

And money does not in itself make you good at football.

What is a good team in professional sport?

This is what you end up with, the Band Aid chorus line trying to make an album.

It is a grotesque model – but one that is at least a logical extension of the league it represents.

But it is at least an attempt to do the right thing, to maintain control, to build rather than snatch at a finished, functioning team.

It seems clear that there is a relationship between the lack of really high-functioning teams and the general poverty of Premier League ownership and administration.

Which is, after all, the one thing you need to keep people interested.

For now the Premier League does seem to have found an unexpected solution to fixture overload, player fatigue and the dilution of the spectacle.