LONDON – The equation is two from three, a nerve-racking final day of the Premier League season. Three big clubs, 13 English top-division titles between them, on sudden death, a financial abyss below.
Each of the endangered side shows what can go wrong for a provincial force without the pulling power of the true elite, or without money-no-object owners behind them. Both nine-time champions Everton and Leicester, their 2016 fairytale a cherished recent memory, have had billionaire owners, but have lately lost the security of access to such funds.
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