Rat Race (noun) (informal)
1. A way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power.
2. A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. It conjures up the image of the futile efforts of a lab rat trying to escape while running around a maze or in a wheel.
The premier league rat race surely is a competitive struggle for wealth or power, but definitely not pointless and self-defeating. It ends with a champion, European football, survival, money that would make your head swirl, and most importantly, bragging rights. Well, if you come out on the top anyway. With eight game weeks till the end of the season and the battle for top four too close for comfort, here’s how I think the teams will end up. (No, I like to think of it as brave. Not daft.)