Arsenal should have built a bigger lead - history shows title droughts need to be ended emphatically

In recent years, when major European clubs end decades-long title droughts, they tend to do it emphatically. They race into such a significant lead that they are spared the inhibiting weight of making history by the time the run-in arrives. It becomes a case of when, not if.Liverpool ended 30 years of hurt in 2019-20, winning 26 of their first 27 fixtures to seal the Premier League with seven games to spare. In 2022-23, after 33 years, Napoli, a club long haunted by the ghost of Diego Maradona, won Serie A with five games left.Advertisement