The article discusses the fluctuating perceptions of Premier League teams during the 2024-25 season, particularly regarding rankings and performance. While teams like Newcastle United and Aston Villa climbed in rankings, Nottingham Forest faced a decline back to early season expectations. The author reflects on how dramatically opinions about teams can change over the course of a long season, noting early season optimism for certain teams that ultimately faded. The final rankings illustrate the season's unpredictability with analysis of notable changes and performances.
In a year in which both the title and relegation fights were over before May, we reach the final stretch of the 2024-25 Premier League campaign watching Newcastle United and Aston Villa rise and Forest fall back toward where they began the season.
Record semi-regular power rankings for long enough and you begin to realize just how frequently one's perceptions can change over a ridiculously long season.
Newcastle and Villa are flying high, Manchester City have been laminated on that No. 4 spot for a while, everyone has been great and terrible at some point, and Forest have stumbled in an extremely predictable way.
In September, we thought that either Brighton or Tottenham Hotspur were among the five best teams in England.
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