Sixteen points separate first placed Man City from second placed Man Utd.
Sixteen points separate bottom club WBA from Burnley in seventh place.
Fourteen clubs occupy those sixteen points. Tight isn't the word.
The upside to this is that almost nobody is drifting along in a safe mid-table position....well, except Arsenal!
The down side is that now it's less about the quality of football ensuring survival and more about the peripheral issues of injuries and poor refereeing deciding matches.
This is quite simply another negative effect of the influence of excessive wealth on our game. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction and that's what we're seeing. All the apparent wealth of most Premiership clubs is rendered meaningless by the really big spenders.
Do we need an absolute cap on investment? Or is there another way? If it stays like this, we'll never see another Leicester style Fairy Story success.
And they are the real stuff of football.

Winning isn't everything. Without the defeats we would not value the victories. Still, it's a shame we can't play Chelsea every week.