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Premier League predictions - how accurate were BBC Sport pundits?

BBC Sport · May 25, 2026, 8:55 AM · Also reported by 4 other sources

Key takeaways

  • Sport journalist Published7 minutes ago Last summer, 33 BBC TV and radio pundits made their predictions for the Premier League season, picking their champions and their top four.
  • Twenty-one of them thought Liverpool would win it, and none of them got more than two clubs right.
  • Although six pundits correctly picked Arsenal as champions, and everyone had the Gunners and Manchester City in their top four, Matthew Upson was the only one to have the top two in the order they actually finished.

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Sport journalist Published7 minutes ago Last summer, 33 BBC TV and radio pundits made their predictions for the Premier League season, picking their champions and their top four.

Sounds easy? Far from it. Twenty-one of them thought Liverpool would win it, and none of them got more than two clubs right.

Although six pundits correctly picked Arsenal as champions, and everyone had the Gunners and Manchester City in their top four, Matthew Upson was the only one to have the top two in the order they actually finished.

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