This season however, it seems that two teams are emerging high above the rest. A few teams scramble for third and fourth, slipping up every so often, making the top two increasingly unobtainable
This is eerily reminiscent of another top European league - La Liga. Real Madrid and Barcelona compete against each other for the Spanish crown, leaving the others looking longingly upwards, the title well out of reach. The English first division is no longer far away from this formula, and the title race is becoming dangerously close to being a two-horse race.
This move towards a more orthodox European model is stimulated by the spending gap. Much like Real Madrid and Barcelona, the resources available to the top two English teams are multiple times that of other teams in the league. Thus, together with their world-renowned prestige, they can attract the best players.
The embarrassingly weak Financial Fair Play regulations cannot achieve a monetarily fair playing field, and if the laws are not changed rapidly, the Premier League's inequality will continue to grow.