Ipswich Town’s Sammie Szmodics takes on the Everton defence during the sides’ Premier League match at Portman Road. Photo: Bradley Collyer/PA Wire
For the first time in the history of the English top-flight, four different teams have failed to win a single match in the opening eight weeks of a season. Wolves, Southampton, Ipswich Town and Crystal Palace are the Premier League’s flailing four, and they are already beginning to fall away from the rest of the division.
It is not especially unusual for one Premier League side to fail to win any of their opening eight matches of a campaign. For four teams to be in this position at once, though, is extraordinary and record-breaking − and it speaks volumes for the changing nature of English football’s most illustrious competition.
