Winners Manchester United, going 22 hours of football without conceding a league goal Relegated Newcastle, Middlesborough and West Brom in descending order. The Premier League's top scorer in the 2008-09 season was Nicolas Anelka, who only scored 19 goals, the second lowest amount ever. Liverpool only lost two matches in the Premier League that season, further symbolising how impressive they just were. If it wasn't for a mammoth total of 90 points from the Red Devils, it might just have been Liverpool's year. Liverpool had a total of 86 points which is the highest amount ever received by second place at the time, it has since been matched by Tottenham and beaten by Manchester City twice. This was the first season that the Abu Dhabi United Group had purchased Manchester City and so arrived Vincent Kompany, Pablo Zabaleta and Robinho.