The 2020/21 Premier League season is less than three weeks away.

It only feels like yesterday that Liverpool got their hands on the famous trophy for the first time, while Bournemouth, Norwich City and Watford crashed back down to the Championship.

However, due to the three-month delay that was propagated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the gap between seasons of England's top flight has never been shorter.

2020/21 Premier League season

It means that, although we've been denied Euro 2020 for another year, football fans won't be forced to put up with weeks and weeks of pre-season friendlies and drawn-out anticipation.

But as we all know, there are several things that just have to be done before a new Premier League season starts and one of the biggest boxes to tick is predicting how the year will pan out.

The Premier League is world renowned for being one of the hardest sporting competitions to predict and Liverpool's crushing defeat to Watford last season was cold, hard proof of that fact.

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Predicting the Premier League

But fear not because here at GIVEMESPORT, we're not afraid of making ourselves look stupid one year in the future because there's just something so fun about Premier League predictions.

Besides, you either look like a footballing genius if you fluke your way to some brilliant forecasts or in most cases, you get to laugh at yourself and friends for getting everything completely wrong.

As might already be aware, we have already submitted our official GIVEMESPORT prediction for the 2020/21 Premier League table and yeh, it didn't go down too well with Liverpool fans.

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Predicting every single result

But one prediction isn't good enough for us, so we've decided to forecast 2020/21 using a method that, depending on how you view it, will either give a better or worse representation of our true feelings.

That's because we've used the brilliant website worldfootball.net, which allows users to predict every single match of the Premier League season and then calculate the table when you complete it.

So, yes, I have spent the last 20 minutes of my life painstakingly inserting how I think 380 games will pan out and is it absolutely impossible? You're damn right it's absolutely impossible.

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The final 2020/21 table

Nevertheless, I did indeed make it to the end and I resisted looking at the table as I went along in order to prevent me unintentionally trying to 'rectify' placings that didn't look right.

But disclaimers aside, here is my 2020/21 Premier League table after predicting every single game:

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GIVEMESPORT's Kobe Tong says

Miraculously, I don't seem to have botched things too badly. 

Manchester City winning the league is in line with my own prediction, so I'm pretty happy with that, while Manchester United finishing in the top four above Tottenham feels right as well.

I'm not so sure about Chelsea finishing above Liverpool, though, so perhaps there was some unconscious hype inside me after all of Frank Lampard's summer signings.

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I probably bigged up Leeds a little too much with a 12th-place finish and I can't see Newcastle winding up rock bottom of the table, so please accept my formal apologies, Steve Bruce.

I'm also a little uneasy about Villa finishing up as far north as 13th and West Brom surviving, never mind with one spot to spare, certainly isn't in line with my original prediction.

So, who knows, perhaps predicting the Premier League table this way has delved deeper into my inner thoughts about football... that, or I've been exposed as a fraud after jabbing in hundreds of random numbers.

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Still, I'll be expecting my knighthood in the post when this all comes true next spring.