Four reasons why this season’s English Premier League is worth it

2. New faces all around: Three new managers in the top four

With Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement, Mancini’s sacking and Rafa Benitez’s end of tenure, three of the top 4 clubs from last season find themselves under the management of unfamiliar faces (not exactly – Mourinho?). Other than that, Liverpool and Tottenham are finally getting used to the particular style of game that Brendan Rodgers and Andre Villas-Boas want them to play, respectively. And we have the ever-present Arsene Wenger at the helm of Arsenal completing the top six, where the matches would be harder to predict.