Why is it only the big six – aside from Liverpool – who have all-time top scorers who played in the past decade?
That goalscoring records are falling at top clubs is partly to do with the attacking nature of the modern game and advances in sports science, but it is also an indicator of the profound imbalances in today’s football.
Extrapolate Arsenal’s present goal difference of +34 after 26 games over the full season and it would be +50 . That is fairly standard these days. Only Leicester in the past 24 years have won the league with a goal difference of under +40, yet between 1976-77 and José Mourinho’s first season at Chelsea in 2004-05 only seven champions recorded a goal difference greater than +50.
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