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Welcome to the Guardian’s fifth annual index of ineptitude, a catalogue of calamity, a prospectus of the piss-poor.
As each season draws to a close, the best moments, players and teams of the year are all charted, celebrated and cheered. Which means that what comprises most of the rest of the Premier League experience is missed.
So here is a (not always serious) commemoration of cackhandedness: here’s where to cheer goalkeepers who help the opposition, those who can’t score from 12 yards, players given cards for removing their shirts, and professionals who can’t even throw the ball to a teammate. Let’s face it, those moments are just as entertaining as the 30-yard screamers.
The Premier League teams’ ineptitude index 2017-18
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Opta’s statisticians have provided the raw data, we’ve interpreted them and then handed out points in, if we’re honest, a more arbitrary than scientific fashion. Still, what emerges is the glorious throbbing vein of inadequacy, incapability and incompetence that runs right through the Premier League and it deserves to be celebrated long and loud.
Who will join 2014-15 champions QPR, 2015-16 title winners Aston Villa, 2016-17’s supremos Hull City, and last season’s Watford as the year’s most incompetent side?
Guess who came in third?
Welcome to the Guardian’s fifth annual index of ineptitude, a catalogue of calamity, a prospectus of the piss-poor.
As each season draws to a close, the best moments, players and teams of the year are all charted, celebrated and cheered. Which means that what comprises most of the rest of the Premier League experience is missed.
So here is a (not always serious) commemoration of cackhandedness: here’s where to cheer goalkeepers who help the opposition, those who can’t score from 12 yards, players given cards for removing their shirts, and professionals who can’t even throw the ball to a teammate. Let’s face it, those moments are just as entertaining as the 30-yard screamers.
The Premier League teams’ ineptitude index 2017-18
Read more
Opta’s statisticians have provided the raw data, we’ve interpreted them and then handed out points in, if we’re honest, a more arbitrary than scientific fashion. Still, what emerges is the glorious throbbing vein of inadequacy, incapability and incompetence that runs right through the Premier League and it deserves to be celebrated long and loud.
Who will join 2014-15 champions QPR, 2015-16 title winners Aston Villa, 2016-17’s supremos Hull City, and last season’s Watford as the year’s most incompetent side?
Guess who came in third?
