Sleeping giant awakes as Gunners just fall short … and club that we’d expel from school: PL Report Card

Another season has come and gone as Manchester City made history by becoming the first team to win four-straight Premier League titles.

In a campaign in which the most goals were scored in a season since the mid-1960s, Guardiola’s side pipped Arsenal to the post yet again to make it six league titles from the last seven.

It was significantly less successful for Burnley, Luton Town and Sheffield United as the promoted trio were sent straight back to the Championship in what was a 26-year first.

Sandwiched between City and Sheffield United were a host of teams who all defied, met or fell way below pre-season expectations.

Foxsports.com.au takes a look at how EVERY team went in our Premier League Report Card!

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Arsenal (2nd, 89 pts +62)

If ever there was a fitting song to describe Arsenal’s season, look no further than Linkin Park’s classic, In The End.

Mikel Arteta’s side really did try oh-so-hard and they got oh-so-far.

But in the end, it didn’t even matter because ultimately no-one remembers who came second.

However, to summarise Arsenal’s season by just a few lyrics is an immense disservice to the way they improved significantly on last year’s efforts.

Granted, the Gunners shelled out a whopping $AUD199 million to sign Declan Rice, but there was a reason Mikel Arteta was desperate to snap up the former West Ham skipper.

Same goes for Kai Havertz, who defied his famous chant and proved to his detractors the $113m Arsenal spent on him did not go down the drain with 13 league goals.

There’s a sense of what might’ve been had summer recruit Jurrien Timber not been