We listed the 10 best teams who did win manage to win the Premier League last week, so here are the 10 best who didn't...
Top 10 best teams who didn’t win Premier League has an obvious slippy No. 1After you all enjoyed – and unanimously agreed with – our list of the 10 best Premier League teams ever we thought it needed a follow-up: the 10 best Premier League sides whoSome ground rules. Some of these are easy, because their clubs have never won the Premier League. Others, though, are fiddlier; these arewho never won the league, not clubs.
The 2016 side may have finished a place higher, but they will forever be haunted by the fact they really shouldn’t have allowedto happen. Arsenal were a seasoned top-four side by then and should have jumped all over the brief void opened up by Manchester City and Chelsea both being in flux. This was perhaps also the peak for Arsenal trying to ‘walk it into the net’, something they nevertheless managed to achieve 71 times.Szczesny; Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal; Flamini, Cazorla; Ramsey, Ozil, Sanchez; GiroudWelbeck, Chambers, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Gibbs, Coquelin, Ospina, Rosicky, Walcott, Wilshere, Debuchy, Podolski, ArtetaWe all laughed at Jose Mourinho when he said finishing second to Manchester City in 2018 was among his finest achievements.
Leeds’ season was ultimately defined by off-field events. The infamous Majestyk incident involving Lee Bowyer and Jonathan Woodgate is too close to the falling-off of Leeds’ form to be a coincidence, while the death of two fans before the UEFA Cup semi-final first leg against Galatasaray was a tragedy whose impact is still felt at the club.
They lost at Coventry on the opening day but were beaten only twice more as they produced what was at the time a rare challenge to the United-Arsenal duopoly that ruled the Premier League summit. Ultimately they would finish behind both with four draws in their last seven games proving costly. Chelsea were only five points away from rewriting history and denying Manchester United their treble.
Thompson still led the team to top spot after a run of three straight wins in November and for a while there appeared a genuine prospect of a proper four-way title fight involving Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal and Newcastle. Beaten only twice all season – at Spurs in November and Middlesbrough in February – Rafa Benitez’s side were ultimately undone by too many draws in the middle of the season. Seven draws – three of them goalless and the others all 1-1 – between November 22 and January 28 saw Liverpool cede control of the title race to Manchester United, with the Middlesbrough defeat proving too much to come back from.
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