A grand finale to a season to remember

Rarely can a title battle have registered so highly on the Hollywood scale

This is the time of year when football’s mathematicians and statisticians start to dribble in their sleep at the prospect of a myriad of permutations on the final day of the season; and 2011-2012 has to go down as one of the most satisfying of all campaigns for even the most demanding soccer geek.

Everywhere you look in the Premier League tomorrow, there are numerous potential outcomes to contemplate; a flurry of possible twists and turns that will affect the figures — and the inevitable prospect of dreams being fulfilled and hopes being cruelly dashed, maybe by just a single goal, a single decision.