Nobody could have predicted what would happen during the 2019/20 Premier League season.

Nobody saw there being a three-month hiatus thanks to a global pandemic meaning we would finish the campaign in late July.

Nobody saw Liverpool romping to their first Premier League title by picking up a ridiculous 99 points.

Nobody saw Sheffield United finishing ninth, threatening to qualify for the Champions League for almost the entirety of the campaign.

No, it was an unprecedented and totally unpredictable Premier League season.

So it probably isn’t too surprising that BT Sport’s ‘The Script’ didn’t get much correct.

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BT said that: “Leading data scientists and real-time sports analysis experts Squawka, have analysed football data from Opta, and hosted on the Google Cloud Platform, to script the 19/20 season including Premier League winners, UEFA Champions League winners, the top goal scorers, relegation candidates and other notable storylines.”

On the eve of the season, they released an incredibly detailed 74-page document showing the results of their study.

They predicted the final Premier League table, as well as the Golden Boot winner, every single scoreline from all 380 Premier League matches and the entire Champions League and Europa League campaigns.

So, how did they do?

Premier League

Well, they got Manchester City and Liverpool the wrong way around but they did successfully predict Chelsea would finish fourth.

Down at the other end of the table, they had Sheffield United bottom, while Newcastle (who actually finished 13th) were also relegated.

Not a great start.

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Golden Boot

They thought Salah would win a third consecutive Golden Boot with 29 goals. However, the Egyptian only came fifth in the standings with 19 goals. Instead, Jamie Vardy - who wasn’t predicted to come in the top six - claimed the award with 23 strikes.

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The Playmaker Award

Well, this is fairly comical. They thought Raheem Sterling would register the most assists with 13. However, the Manchester City star only managed ONE assist all season. Kevin de Bruyne equalled the assist record with 20 in real life but he wasn’t even included in the top six in the prediction.

They did, however, correctly predict Trent Alexander-Arnold would hit double figures.

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Champions League

Of course, the Champions League is still ongoing but they’ve predicted a Real Madrid victory. That will be very difficult with them needing two overturn Manchester City in their last-16 clash. They did actually say that would happen, with Real winning 7-5 on aggregate. That would require Zinedine Zidane’s side to win 6-3 in the second leg. Bring it on!

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Europa League

Spurs crashed out of the Champions League last-16 after a defeat to RB Leipzig. By finishing second in their group, they didn’t fall into the Europa League like this study predicted. But Man Utd are currently favourites to win the tournament and will be looking to go one better than ‘The Script’ predicted they would.

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Turns out the data wasn’t particularly accurate, was it?

Of course, it was all a bit of fun and nobody really expected them to predict the future. It only served to prove that football is very much unscripted.

Perhaps it'll go better next year...