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Premier League Returns: Best Pictures Of The 2012/13 Season

The Premier League Is Back!
The Huffington Post UK
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The Premier League is back this weekend and after last week's 10 best snapshots of the 2012-13 season comes 58 of the best pictures from the campaign.

What promised so much eventually petered out, as Manchester United won their 20th title at a canter and the three relegated teams' fates were sealed before the final day.

But it was the final domestic campaign of Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson's magnificent managerial career, Gareth Bale emerged as one of the best players on the planet, Rafael Benítez defied his Chelsea detractors and Peter Odemwingie was accidentally Partridged.

Premier League pictures of the season
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Rabona
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Suárez thwarted
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Suárez upended
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Mladen Petrić creates poetry in motion
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Kyle Walker cools off
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Carroll dwarfs Figueroa
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Adam le Fondre wedges the ball between boot and face
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Agüero humiliates Reina. The linesman's impressed, too
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Kevin Mirallas requests some noise after his superb solo goal versus Stoke
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Tim Howard can only hope, Van Persie can only score
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Urby Emanuelson in flight
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Come on feel the Moyes
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Fred the Red tried to lead Fergie astray
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Odd one out
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United fans are elated, City players are deflated
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Luis Suárez hangin' around
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Lampard salutes the heavens, and the heavens open
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Demba Ba and Fabricio Coloccini can't bare to look
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There are nine Arsenal players in this picture
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Luis Suárez attempts to kick-start his season at West Brom. Liverpool lose the opening day game 3-0
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Mark Schwarzer bids a bird off the Old Trafford pitch
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Gary Cahill spreads his wings
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All rise: Vincent Kompany clears the ball during Manchester City's derby win at United
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Jamie Carragher lets Lucas Leiva and Fernando Torres fight it out at Anfield
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Sir Alex Ferguson wipes away the champagne after a 13th Premier League title
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Devil in the shadows
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Wayne Rooney pouts and sweats during his infamous opening day performance at Everton
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Brendan Rodgers experiences what it's like to manage Liverpool
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One for the cameras from Tim Howard
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Steven Pienaar and Tom Cleverley compete for best facial expression
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Blowing bubbles at the Boleyn Ground
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Paolo di Canio charms the Mackems
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Michael Carrick, Rafael da Silva and Antonio Valencia plead innocence as Yaya Touré is upended
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André Villas-Boas lets Clint Dempsey off the leash
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Javier Hernández looks on adoringly as Sir Alex Ferguson takes the acclaim
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Aaron Lennon doesn't relish being the meat in a West Ham sandwich
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Gary Cahill celebrates his deflected goal at White Hart Lane
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Phil Jones strikes the pose as Sergio Agüero hits the back of David de Gea's net
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Wojciech Szczęsny's star-jump denies Robin van Persie
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Begovic beaten by the Hammers
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Robin van Persie makes his mark again on the night Manchester United secured their 20th title against Aston Villa
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Ross Turnbull's son scores his first career goal
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How did this happen?
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Raining men
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You can guess Ramires's squad number from his head
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Customary Frank Lampard pose
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Lampard is hoisted above Bobby Tambling in Chelsea's all-time goalscorers list
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Simon Mignolet morphs into Superman to deny Gareth Bale
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David Luíz risks flattening the ball
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Gaping Hammers watch on as Bale prepares for the spectacular
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Andy Carroll, watched by Baggies
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Clint Dempsey puts the Royals to the sword
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Andy Carroll opts for a different mode of aerial prowess
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Fernando forlorn
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A rare triumph for QPR's Harry Redknapp
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Mark Halsey has no pity for Aston Villa's Enda Stevens
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The Eden Hazard right angle
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Freezing Fergie

With Fergie gone, José Mourinho back, Manchester City happy campers again, pressure piling on Arsène Wenger and Tottenham meaning business, the new season could be one of the most fascinating in years.

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