Quote Originally Posted by Robin Friday's Ghost View Post
The league table is essentially just a stat. No context.
The only context is playing each other home and away over the course of the season. It's often said that the table is misleading early in the season; maybe it is until the last games have been played.

Even then it just says win, lose, draw, goals scored, goals conceded.

For me there's more interest in looking in more detail. How teams come back from behind or lose from being in front. How often teams fail to score or how often they keep clean sheets. How often they sneak narrow wins or how often they batter teams. When teams are likely to score winning goals.

I can understand that lots aren't interested in stuff like that, but it doesn't give them the right to be rude about it.