Very Specific Football Question No.38: What is the best thing that happened in the best Premier League season?

Yes, this was the best Premier League season. Of course it was. Leicester won it, for chrissakes. Leicester!

But apart from that, what were the other funniest bits of the last nine crazy months?

10 Slaven Bilic’s interviews
The Croatian’s dedication to ending every single one of his sentences, whether positive or negative, with the phrase, “and all that” - while remaining unfailingly eloquent - was almost as admirable as his rejuvenation of West Ham’s playing style. He also described beating Man City away as “like walking into a pub full of girls”. Mauricio Pochettino wouldn’t do that.

9 Jurgen Klopp breaking his glasses
If Liverpool had failed to beat Norwich in January, one weekend after losing at home to Manchester United, then who knows if their German manager would today be seen as the same miracle worker leading them towards European glory. But they did win: 5-4 with a last-gasp goal at Carrow Road. The ensuing wild celebrations accounted for Klopp’s spectacles, but that moment also instilled a new level of belief at Anfield.

8 Man City 1-3 Leicester City
The demise of Manchester City was about half as funny as the demise of Chelsea, which meant it was still absolutely hilarious. This home mauling by the rampant Foxes was probably the most significant result of the season. At the time it seemed like a shock, but a similarly limp defeat to Tottenham the following weekend showed that the billionaire outfit were actually just a bit rubbish.

7 Claudio Ranieri’s little face
Here’s a question. Would everyone like Leicester City so much if it wasn’t for their loveable, huggable manager? Premier League success normally prompts bitterness, especially when it’s spearheaded by fiery characters like Jamie Vardy and Robert Huth, but neutral fans have embraced the Foxes like no other team. Whether it was babbling about pizzas or crumbling with emotion, Ranieri’s cherubic mush was the thing that inspired such affection.

6 Joleon Lescott tweets a car
Of the estimated 500,000 social media posts sent by Premier League footballers in 2015/16, it is estimated that around 499,600 were utter dross. But every now and then we’d be treated to a cracker, and few online outbursts were more memorable than the photo of a brand new silver Mercedes-AMG tweeted by Aston Villa’s Lescott in the immediate wake of a 6-0 home defeat to Liverpool. So classy, so mysterious, so Aston Villa.

5 Newcastle 5-1 Tottenham
The silliest result in a season of silly results. It would have been silly even if Newcastle hadn’t already been relegated, and didn’t score three of their goals while playing with 10 men, and if Tottenham didn’t only need a measly draw to finish above Arsenal. Without all that, Newcastle 5-1 Tottenham would still have been silly. But it was so much more.

4 LVG
The fact he was useless was merely a side-issue. What the Man Utd manager provided again and again was comedy value of the weirdest kind. Falling over on the touchline, telling his players to be “horny”, accusing Robert Huth of being a “sex masochist” (or possibly confessing that he was one himself) - all while sporting the haircut of 19-year-old Starbucks barista. Who, hand on heart, could really want this man to leave?

3 Mourinho’s meltdown
He began the season attacking the club physio, then moved on to referees - “They are afraid to give decisions to Chelsea” - and ended up rounding on his own players. Seeing the Special One angry was nothing new, but to witness his increasingly delusional descent into paranoia, desperation and - ultimately - emasculation was spectacular.

2 The career trajectory of Rafa Benitez
The Spanish restaurant staff member began the season welling up with tears of pride as he was appointed manager of his beloved Real Madrid - the greatest day of his life. He ended the season welling up with tears of whatever the opposite of pride is as his Newcastle side were relegated to the Championship. No Madrid manager ever has, or ever will, end a season this badly.

1 Roberto Martinez dancing
OK, so it was just Roberto Martinez dancing. But what’s most brilliant about the deposed Everton manager’s funky girations at a Jason Derulo concert are their juxtaposition against the backdrop of the Toffees’ turgid performances. By day, Martinez haplessly oversaw the collapse of Britain’s most talented young squad. By night, he danced like a sexy diva. There’s a lesson to us all in that, somewhere.

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