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25 days until the Premier League restarts!

Submitted by fraaab on July 21, 2025
Who's excited for the 2025/2026 Premier League season? ⚽ To help pass the empty summer days before it all kicks off again, I'm releasing a 25-part series, one quiz per day, of Sudden Death quizzes. Here's a link to the first:

EPL Top Scorers 2024/25 - Sudden Death

I'm hoping this quiz can make it big, so please support me with a nomination if you enjoyed it :)

As a side note - who do you think's winning the league this time round? I've got my eye on Chelsea this year 👀

12 Comments
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Jul 21, 2025
Must be nice as a fan to have such a short offseason.

American football only lasts 4 months, give or take. Then again, the players need those 8 months off to recover from the crippling injuries they get during the season. 😅

thegoatisgoaty
+3
Level 75
Jul 21, 2025
If your team makes the playoffs, it can get closer to 5 months. Although I'm a Jets fan, so...
fraaab
+2
Level 65
Jul 22, 2025
Yeah I agree it's really nice not having to wait too long! Plus, this year we had the club world cup, and every two years we have either the World Cup or the Euros to keep us entertained during our summers so it's near constant football to be fair 🙌🏼
JustJoshing
+4
Level 66
Jul 22, 2025
I dunno QM, I’m a Manchester United fan and we’ve had the last decade off 🤒
nichster
+2
Level 57
Jul 22, 2025
Plus, there are international competitions to keep us occupied in the summer almost yearly now. We obviously have the World Cup, The European Championships, Copa America and now the Club World Cup (which has its issues) as well as all the female equivalents for the first 3.
JustJoshing
+2
Level 66
Jul 22, 2025
Absolutely nobody is asking for this new iteration of the Club World Cup. The Women’s Euros, however, has been epic. I was in Switzerland for all four quarter finals and they were really the perfect hosts 🙌🏽
fraaab
+1
Level 65
Jul 22, 2025
Football fans are masters of snobbery when innovation comes into football - it's commonplace for fans to hate on new things even when there's nothing intrinsically wrong with them at all. The CWC was very entertaining, with many epic competitive matches and plenty of upsets. Anyone who says otherwise probably either didn't watch the games, or was determined to hatewatch from the start.

People said the European teams would dominate - yet many South American teams progressed deep and a Saudi Arabian team sent Man City home.

People said there would be injuries all over the place - there were fewer than usual.

People said no-one would watch the games - they had an average of 40000 spectators per game (inc. group stage). People said the clubs wouldn't care - they fielded their best 11 throughout and many players were seen crying when knocked out.

People said the tournament was irrelevant - yet now suddenly every media platform heralds Chelsea as title-favourites.

🤷‍♂️

CWC was a success.

Gademotsili99
+1
Level 61
Jul 23, 2025
Well the biggest problem of the CWC is the congestion of games. Footballers get more and more matches every season and that is actually long term bad for injuries. First the champions league getting more games, now this.
fraaab
+1
Level 65
Jul 23, 2025
It's the same fixture congestion as the World Cup though... Clubs get more subs, and generally are maintaining larger squads these days. Media and pundits like to make things dramatic - only time will tell if a few players can't handle another summer tournament, but I suspect those clubs involved will be able to adapt just fine
JustJoshing
+1
Level 66
Jul 25, 2025
I completely disagree that it's a matter of snobbery among football fans. That so-called spectacle during the CWC Final was pure trash which had nothing to do with football. What even was that Panini dance? They all looked like they were trying to get rid of cramp.

I admit that I hate-watched it, hoping to be proven wrong. Alas, I wasn't. Very few of the teams that played looked interested; they played as though it were a glorified pre-season tournament, which is all it really was. I've seen more competitiveness in the Community Shield. The fact that PSG, the deserved Champions League winners, got battered in the final by Chelsea, a half-rate English team, tells you all you need to know.

As for the attendances, you clearly missed all the stories which revealed how FIFA were giving tickets away FOR FREE because they weren't getting enough ticket sales.

It was another desperate attempt to stave off the European Super League. Pure and simple.

JustJoshing
+1
Level 66
Jul 25, 2025
Also, I don't know where you're looking but nowhere in the UK has Chelsea as title favourites. I haven't seen them higher than 4th, and rightly so. There is absolutely nothing to suggest that success in tournament football leads to success over the course of a full league season - especially when you've fluked your way there in the first place.
JustJoshing
+1
Level 66
Jul 27, 2025
Just a follow-up:

The CWC Final had an attendance of 81,118. Today, at the same stadium, a pre-season friendly between Manchester United and West Ham United got 82,566.

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