Where will Arsenal 26/27 eventually sit among 10 worst Premier League winners?
With Arsenal now clearly on a quest to 1-0 their way to an inevitable and unopposed Premier League title this season, we have simply no choice but to ask the very fair and in now miserable, joy-sapping and just unnecessarily spiteful question: who are the worst ever Premier League champions? From that point, there was then no further option but to turn it into a top 10.
A top 10 with something for everyone. It should go without saying that the operative part of the phrase 'worst ever Premier League champions' is still 'Premier League champions'.
Let the medals and the trophy and the memories soothe your anger and vex you not as you consider our rigorous, scientific and, as you will all surely accept, entirely fair and robust findings in the tish and fipsy that follows. 10) Arsenal 1997/98 Broke up the United monopoly, whatever.
First non-British manager to win the Premier League, yawn. Arsenal took advantage in magnificent fashion to roar over the finishing line, but they should never have had the chance.
No team that loses four games out of six and then can only draw at relegation-haunted Spurs to hit the new year sixth in the table should be winning the title. We will grudgingly concede that a 10-match winning run to wrench the trophy out of Sir Alex Ferguson's white-knuckled fingers is pretty good, but our main praise is reserved for Arsenal not just winning the title from 12 points back, but to do it in the end so easily that they could just sarcastically lose their last two games of the season for a laugh.
The more we look at the second half of this season, the more harsh this gets but hey-ho, we're here now. Someone has to be the 10th-worst champions.
Just be grateful we haven't included the Invincibles. Not cos we're scared of them.
Got knocked out of literally every other competition in extremely vincible fashion! Only managed one more point than Arteta's 23/24 runners-up!
Would probably be 11th on this list now we think about it.