Explain
Game of Thrones in terms of the Premier League title race
Watching Game of Thrones is essentially like following a Premier League title race where everyone is managed by a frantic manager who has forgotten how football works.
The Starks are that perennial mid-table club, like West Ham, constantly talking about their proud history and integrity while getting relegated to the Championship of the frozen North every other season. The Lannisters are clearly Manchester City, bankrolled by an endless supply of gold and a patriarch who treats the entire kingdom like an oil-rich vanity project. Daenerys Targaryen represents the mid-table side that signs three high-profile strikers in January, promises a complete tactical overhaul, and then immediately sets the stadium on fire because the manager lost his temper in the dressing room.
The White Walkers are the inevitable late-season arrival of an underperforming team on an improbable winning streak, threatening to ruin everyone’s carefully constructed narratives by simply freezing the entire pitch and murdering the referee. Littlefinger is the equivalent of a disgraced football agent lurking in the car park, whispering into the ears of young prospects about how a backroom coup could get them a better contract at a club that doesn't actually exist. By the time the final whistle blows, most of the starting eleven are either dead, exiled, or sitting on the bench watching a teenage substitute get the trophy for reasons that remain entirely unclear.
Where the analogy breaks downIn the Premier League, you generally expect the team that wins the title to have actually played a decent game of football at some point in the season.