The Premier League season that refuses to slow down

Do you ever feel overwhelmed? As if the world is moving far too quickly, leaving you dizzy, overstimulated and permanently behind the curve? That life itself has become an unmanageable blur of noise, opinion and expectation?

The self help advice is familiar enough. Clear some space in the diary. Put your phone in a drawer by 9pm. Delete social media apps. Cut back on coffee and embrace suspicious looking green smoothies. Maybe even disappear on a yoga retreat for a week.

Or maybe you have simply been following the Premier League this season.

Because the 2025 to 26 campaign feels like it has been played at warp speed. English top flight football has always thrived on drama and rapid narrative swings, but this year those swings feel more violent than ever. Storylines are not just shifting, they are spinning out of control.

And no club sums that up better than Liverpool.

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Liverpool and the illusion of certainty

For five games, everything seemed so clear. Liverpool, reigning champions, began the season with a perfect record. Yes, there were late goals and narrow escapes, but winning while still bedding in new signings felt like a positive sign. The logic was simple. Once things settled, they would only get stronger.

Then reality arrived in brutal fashion.

Defeats followed against Crystal Palace, Galatasaray, Chelsea, Manchester United, Brentford, and then Crystal Palace again. A stunning 5 to 1 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt only added to the confusion. By October, the idea that Arne Slot, the man who had replaced Jurgen Klopp and won the title in his debut season, could be under threat no longer felt outrageous.

The chaos peaked with the extraordinary decision to drop Mohamed Salah, arguably the club’s greatest player of the modern era and one of the finest in their entire history. Unsurprisingly, he did not react well.

Six months removed from lifting the trophy, Liverpool found themselves drifting in mid table, a living reminder of how quickly football certainties evaporate.

Aston Villa and the art of wild swings

If Liverpool represent collapse, Aston Villa embody reinvention.

Their summer recruitment was frantic and ultimately ineffective. Several late signings barely featured, results collapsed, and after five matches Villa sat in the relegation zone. There was genuine talk that Unai Emery’s long term project had hit a dead end and that poor recruitment would sink their season.

Fast forward a few weeks and the picture is completely different.

Nine wins in ten league games transformed their campaign. From 19th at the end of September to third by early winter, Aston Villa have enjoyed the most dramatic league position swing of any side this season. One moment written off as broken, the next talked about as title contenders.

In this Premier League, momentum is not built. It arrives in a flash and disappears just as quickly.

Tottenham, Brentford and the shifting narrative machine

Tottenham Hotspur have ridden a similarly chaotic narrative rollercoaster.

Early wins, including a statement victory away at Manchester City, prompted praise for new head coach Thomas Frank. He was framed as the pragmatic antidote to Ange Postecoglou’s idealism. Calm had replaced chaos. Adults were back in charge.

A few months later, relentless home defeats brought boos, frustration and doubts about whether Frank was out of his depth. Some supporters even found themselves nostalgic for the very style they had recently rejected.

At Brentford, Keith Andrews has lived through a quieter but no less revealing cycle. His appointment raised eyebrows given his lack of managerial experience and the departure of key players. Early wins over Manchester United and Liverpool flipped the narrative overnight. Suddenly it was smart continuity. Now, after four defeats in six matches, the pendulum swings back again.

In modern football, judgement rarely waits.

Short memories and instant verdicts

Elsewhere, reputations have risen and fallen in a matter of days.

Enzo Maresca earned widespread praise after Chelsea battled to a draw with ten men against Arsenal, a performance that seemed to define him as a manager who understood the club’s ruthless demands. Three days later, a 3 to 1 defeat to Leeds United wiped away much of that goodwill.

That result also reignited debate around Daniel Farke, whose position at Leeds looked increasingly fragile despite promotion. Weeks of struggle suggested his time was running out, only for eye catching results against Chelsea and Liverpool to change the tone once more.

The line between stability and crisis has never been thinner.

Chaos everywhere you look

Then there is Nottingham Forest, operating in their own microclimate of disorder.

European football fuelled optimism in the summer. Less than a month into the campaign, Nuno Espirito Santo was gone. His replacement lasted eight winless matches before being dismissed, paving the way for Sean Dyche to become the club’s third manager of the season before autumn had even ended.

Even Wolves, long a symbol of dependable dysfunction, have not escaped the madness. Bottom of the table for 14 of 15 weeks, briefly rising to 19th for one fleeting moment, they have still managed to sack a manager amid escalating fan protests.

No one is immune.

A season defined by instability

The numbers tell the same story. Twelve different teams have occupied Champions League qualification places. For weeks, the top five changed every round. Even Arsenal, who have spent most of the season in first place, are beginning to wobble under the weight of injuries and expectation.

If one match captures the essence of this campaign, it is Manchester City’s extraordinary 5 to 4 win away at Fulham. At 5 to 1, the contest was over. Cigars lit. Then chaos erupted. Three late goals turned the closing stages into mayhem.

Afterwards, Pep Guardiola could only smile, as if to say, are you not entertained?

Entertaining, exhausting and impossible to control

There is no denying that this unpredictability has been thrilling. It beats a season where outcomes feel preordained before a ball is kicked. But it is also disorientating. Following the Premier League this year feels like being trapped in a washing machine, spun relentlessly without pause.

So if you are feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated and slightly outpaced by the world, do not panic.

It might not be you.

It might just be the Premier League.

Still, there is probably no harm in booking that yoga retreat anyway.