//The Premier League Picks Up Where it Left Off: An Inevitable Title and Two Intense Races

The Premier League Picks Up Where it Left Off: An Inevitable Title and Two Intense Races

Three months after being shut down, the Premier League season will resume. Here’s what’s left to be sorted in the sprint to the finish.

After the famine comes the feast. On March 9, Leicester City beat Aston Villa, 4-0, and then the football stopped. Some 100 days later, Aston Villa will be involved in the first game of the Premier League’s restart as it hosts Sheffield United on Wednesday. Later in the day, Manchester City faces Arsenal, and every side will have played 29 games in the most abnormal of seasons. The weekend features a full slate, and everything in the Premier League will be wrapped up by the end of July before the FA Cup final on the first Saturday in August.

It’s all a little dizzying, particularly given how the various threads of narrative have been dropped. Some sort of “Previously, in the Premier League…” as if it