Ocean Beach in Ibiza beckons for Arne Slot, the Championship beckons for Southampton, Leicester City and Ipswich Town, and a busy summer of spending beckons for every team gracing the Premier League next season.
All of that can only mean one thing; another captivating campaign has drawn to a close, one which inevitably had its fair share of dull affairs but also a collection of engrossing encounters in equal measure.
From the 380 games in the 2024-25 Premier League season, we take on the arduous task of picking the most memorable 10; in truth, half of this list could have included any Brentford home match from the first half of the season.
However, we have limited ourselves to just one such example, and from a collection of thrilling turnarounds and humbling humiliations, Sports Mole counts down its 10 best games of the 2024-25 Premier League canpaign.
Where better to start than with an extraordinary London derby?
When West Ham United and Arsenal fans rocked up to the London Stadium in November 2024, little did they know that they would witness an astounding seven goals in the first half alone; only the fourth time that has ever happened in the Premier League.
Crucially, however, five of those strikes went the way of Mikel Arteta's side, and a goalless second period - talk about a game of two halves - suited the Gunners to a tee as they made the short journey home as 5-2 victors.
9. Southampton 2-3 Leicester City (October 19, 2024)
It was no 9-0, but Southampton's 3-2 defeat at home to Leicester City in October 2024 may have been equally excruciating for their supporters to witness, as the Saints blew a 2-0 lead in the most unforgettable of circumstances.
Early strikes from Cameron Archer and Joe Aribo had seemingly set Southampton on their way to a first top-flight win of the season, but Facundo Buonanotte and Jamie Vardy got Leicester back to square one either side of a Ryan Fraser sending-off.
Just when a share of the spoils appeared inevitable, Jordan Ayew popped up with a spectacular 98th-minute winner to complete an astonishing turnaround for Leicester, albeit one that ultimately made no difference to their survival prospects.
An all-capital clash that very rarely fails to live up to the pre-game hype, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea's December 2024 derby followed the usual script; goals, chaos, more goals and more chaos.
Going two goals up in 11 minutes was a false dawn for Ange Postecoglou, whose side then fell victim to a breathtaking Blues turnaround, one in which Cole Palmer scored his 11th and 12th penalties from his 11th and 12th attempts in the Premier League, which represented the highest number for a 100% conversion rate at the time.
A quintessentially cold 'panenka' spot kick only served to humiliate the Spurs fans further, and Son Heung-min's late intervention was only scant consolation at the end of a seven-goal spectacle.
Well, it was only appropriate that this one was number seven.
Nottingham Forest came into their home clash with Brighton & Hove Albion in February reeling from a 5-0 battering at the hands of one South Coast side in Bournemouth, but the Garibaldi had inevitably taken a leaf out of the Cherries' book.
A Lewis Dunk own goal sparked the rout, Chris Wood helped himself to a treble, and Jota Silva, Neco Williams and Morgan Gibbs-White also got in on the act in Forest's biggest Premier League victory to date, and the Seagulls' heaviest loss in the competition so far.
6. Arsenal 5-1 Manchester City (February 2, 2025)
The game that made Erling Haaland all too aware of just who Myles Lewis-Skelly is.
For the best part of a decade, Arsenal fans had been forced to witness Manchester City make a mockery of them in the Premier League, with only a couple of FA Cup semi-final wins and scattered top-flight successes to shout about.
Following the turbulent aftermath of their 2-2 draw in September, the scene could not have been set more perfectly for their meeting at the Emirates in February, where the tables were turned after Haaland's 'stay humble' and 'who the f*** are you' quips.
Indeed, the Scandinavian was humbled by Hale End as Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri both breached Stefan Ortega's goal, as did Kai Havertz, Thomas Partey and Martin Odegaard in one of several results that epitomised City's catastrophic downfall.
5. Everton 2-3 Bournemouth (August 31, 2024)
While Everton fans bade farewell to Goodison Park with plenty of pleasant memories, some members of the Toffees faithful - at least the younger generation - were also subjected to perhaps their worst-ever day out at the famous venue.
The Merseyside outfit appeared to be cruising to a two-goal victory over Bournemouth in August 2024 after Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin struck early in the second half, but Everton would somehow find themselves on the wrong side of Premier League history.
Thanks to Antoine Semenyo's response, Lewis Cook's 92nd-minute equaliser and Luis Sinisterra's unbelievable 96th-minute winner, Bournemouth became the first team to ever win a Premier League game after being 2-0 down in the 87th minute, leaving their supporters elated and Everton's deflated.
4. Man City 0-4 Tottenham (November 23, 2024)
Another appropriately-numbered selection, Tottenham had already made a habit of haunting Man City before their next trip to the Etihad in November 2024, by which time Pep Guardiola's men were already on a downward spiral.
The Citizens had lost four Premier League games in a row leading up to the visit of Spurs, who coincidentally put four past the then-defending champions without reply, as James Maddison bagged a brace before Pedro Porro and Brennan Johnson added further humiliation.
Such an embarrassing scoreline inevitably saw Guardiola break some unwanted personal records, as he lost a home game by four goals for the first time as a manager, as well as overseeing three straight Premier League losses at the Etihad; an unwanted fate he had never previously suffered before.
Brentford at the Gtech Community Stadium in late 2024 normally only meant one thing - a glut of goals at both ends of the field - and that theme actually began with the visit of Wolverhampton Wanderers to the capital in early October.
Maintaining their commitment to early goals, the Bees took the lead inside just two minutes to trigger an unmissable six-goal first half, as Thomas Frank's side went into the changing rooms for half time with a healthy 4-2 lead.
Both goalkeepers were beaten once more in the closing stages to cap off an eight-goal extravaganza, one that proved to be the foundation for several more goal-laden Brentford home games moving forward.
2. Everton 2-2 Liverpool (February 12, 2025)
After so much was made of the last-ever men's Merseyside derby to be played at Goodison Park - and rightfully so - it would have been typical of the footballing gods to bless Everton fans, Liverpool fans and fascinated neutrals with a bore 0-0 draw.
However, while the spoils were indeed shared, they were shared after one of the most absorbing derbies Goodison had ever witnessed in its 133-year history of hosting senior men's matches, and the aftermath was just as chaotic as the on-field action.
Alexis Mac Allister and Mohamed Salah appeared to have spoiled the Goodison party, but with no fewer than eight minutes of second-half injury time played, James Tarkowski produced a moment of Merseyside magic with a breathtaking volley to spark scenes of unbridled pandemonium.
Fans spilled out onto the pitch as Everton's equaliser survived a couple of VAR checks, and it was all too much for Curtis Jones to take when he saw Abdoulaye Doucoure winding up the travelling faithful; both were sent off in the fracas that followed.
The perpetually cool Slot also landed himself in hot water for post-match comments made towards referee Michael Oliver, but there could not have been a more fitting end to an unforgettable era.
1. Tottenham 3-6 Liverpool (December 22, 2024)
Insert Christmas cracker joke here.
The festive period was anything but delightful for an injury-riddled Tottenham side, who had the pleasure of welcoming leaders Liverpool to their North London home in their final game before December 25, where bedlam reigned supreme.
Maddison's reply to Luis Diaz and Mac Allister's strikes gave Spurs a glimmer of hope, which was quickly extinguished as Liverpool went on the warpath, with Mohamed Salah netting twice and also laying on two assists for Diaz and Dominik Szoboszlai.
The Egyptian consequently became the first-ever player to hit 10 goals and 10 assists in a Premier League season before Christmas, and anyone who triple-captained the Egyptian in their fantasy football team that week got the best early present possible.
Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke did make the scoreline a little more respectable after Liverpool took their foot off the gas, but Slot's sensational attack was simply too hot for Postecoglou's diminished defence to handle in the highest-scoring game of the campaign.
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