LONDON — This is, in many ways, the most exciting Premier League season in years.
True, Manchester United has a comfortable lead at the top but the title race is far from over while the battle to stay among English football's elite will almost certainly go to the final kick of the final game.
Yet most Mondays when we reflect on the weekend's matches, football tends to take a back seat. The headlines are invariably about a manager putting the boot into a referee or, this week, Wayne Rooney's foul-mouthed tirade at a camera after completing his hat trick against West Ham, which earned him a two-match suspension.