EPL ladder calculating goals scored only by English players crowns Liverpool champions

ON this ladder Manchester City didn’t win the English Premier League and instead Liverpool are the champions.

IMAGINE Manchester City didn’t win the English Premier League and instead Liverpool were this season’s champions. One EPL ladder calculated that result.

Liverpool fell just short of lifting the EPL trophy this season, with their epic collapse at the pointy end of the season sending their many loyal fans on an emotional roller-coaster.

But another EPL ladder had the Reds finishing in first place, well ahead of 2013/2014 champions, Manchester City.

New York Times’ revised EPL ladder beside the actual points table.

A revised EPL table done by the New York Times calculated what the ladder would look like if only goals scored by English players were counted.

With fifteen English players in Liverpool’s current squad, featuring some of the biggest attacking weapons in the league, the men from The Kop come out on top when the mildly xenophobic tally is compiled.

What hypothetically could’ve been.

Manchester City on the other hand, would have finished way down in 18th and been relegated to the League Championship, according to the revised ladder.

City’s squad has a far more global flavour, with just six players (most of which are in defensive positions) hailing from England.

While the hypothetical ladder’s outcome is completely void and it is understood no world class football league would implement such rules, it does highlight the reliance on international players in some teams, while other clubs take initiative to develop homegrown talent.

Originally published as EPL ladder calculating goals scored only by English players crowns Liverpool champions