Hello. If you’re of a certain age, League Ladders are likely to be among the happier childhood memories. They were an essential part of every football season, at least until November when you realised your team wasn’t going to win the league or get promoted and it became too much hassle.

By the standards of modern life, they look a bit limited. Take tonight’s match behind West Ham and Leicester City. The League Ladders – assuming you hadn’t given up in November - would show that it’s 16th v 19th in the table. But they wouldn’t tell us that these teams, just three places apart, live in different worlds.

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