{"id":17463,"date":"2026-07-15T02:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17463"},"modified":"2026-07-15T02:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:53:23","slug":"the-5-favourites-to-win-the-premier-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=17463","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Favourites To Win The Premier League Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<article>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<p><strong>With the World Cup still ongoing, it is easy to forget that the new Premier League season is just over a month away.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal ended a 20+ year wait to finish top of the table last season, having been nearly men for several years prior to finally getting their hands on the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Will they be able to retain their crown this time around, and who will be their main challengers for 1st place?<\/p>\n<p>Press the next page as we count down the top 5 contenders to win the title (according to the bookies)\u2026<\/p>\n<nav class=\"c-post-article-pagination\"><\/nav>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the World Cup still ongoing, it is easy to forget that the new Premier&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}