5 things we learned from the Premier League weekend

Arsene Wenger was afforded a fitting send-off on a penultimate Premier League weekend marred by sadness. Meanwhile Jurgen Klopp still has plenty of work to do, and Roy Hodgson can bask in the knowledge of a job well done.

Here are five things we learned from the season’s penultimate weekend:

MANAGERS MATTER

On the same weekend as Sir Alex Ferguson battles for his life in hospital, the reception afforded Arsene Wenger on his final home game as manager of Arsenal was a poignant reminder of how the true greats of the game can rise above traditional enmities. Only last week Ferguson put their old rivalry aside to make a presentation to Wenger on the Old Trafford pitch. On Sunday, just as the football world has come together to issue its best wishes to Ferguson, so it also acclaimed Wenger as his historic tenure draws to a close.

CHAMPIONS-CHASERS

BAGGIES KEEP BOUNCING

REMARKABLE ROY

Sensible football people always sat uncomfortably with the widespread ridicule which greeted Roy Hodgson’s respective exits from Liverpool and England. To a large extent a victim of circumstance, Hodgson nevertheless took over a seemingly hopeless cause at Crystal Palace in the knowledge his illustrious career was likely on the line. The manner in which Hodgson has proceeded to steer the Eagles to safety surely puts him right up there as a manager of the year contenter alongside Pep Guardiola and Sean Dyche.

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