The Premier League title race is almost over and relegation appears a done deal too, but there is still everything to play for in the battle for the top five and it is going to be an incredible fight to the finish.
There are five teams going for the three Champions League places behind Liverpool and Arsenal, with only two points between them, and this weekend showed why it is impossible to call.
Going into the latest round of games, the way I saw it there were two in-form teams, Aston Villa and Newcastle, and two sides, Nottingham Forest and Chelsea, who were having a bit of a wobble.
Over the course of Saturday and Sunday, a lot changed. Villa battered Newcastle, and deserved it too, while Chelsea were 1-0 down with less than 10 minutes to go at Fulham but somehow turned it around to win.
That victory put Chelsea back in the top five, above Forest. Nuno Espirito Santo’s side have lost their past two games, but they will go back to third if they beat Tottenham on Monday.
The picture is going to keep on changing too – Manchester City play Villa on Tuesday, when I guess the other three teams watching on will be hoping for a draw – and this is what it is going to be like now every week between now and the end of the season.
Someone will have a bad result and appear to be out of it, and someone else will win and look like they are favourites, but there are plenty of twists and turns to come.
From Newcastle’s point of view, after a defeat like the one they suffered against Villa on Saturday, they have the right game coming up next – against one of the bottom three, Ipswich, at home.
They just have to forget about what happened against Villa, because the bigger picture is that they have already won a trophy this season and they are still in third place with five games to go.
If someone had offered that to them last summer, they would have snapped their hands off.
