Five fixtures that could decide this season’s title races

Title races are decided in clumps: the weeks when the top two meet each other and the bottom half in the same fortnight. Those clusters are where twelve-point swings live.

Watch the head-to-heads first. A six-point gap with two direct meetings left is a different race from a six-point gap with none. Then watch the fixture congestion around European weeks — squads two-deep survive, squads one-deep donate points.

Our matchday page flags these clusters as they approach. The table will tell you who is winning; the calendar tells you who can still win it.