The Premier League is the greatest domestic league in the world for action-packed, incident-heavy games, while off the pitch 2012 has also seen plenty of wider issues such as racism, Hillsborough and Fabrice Muamba's health scare brought further into the light. With that in mind, we've compiled a selection of the best moments from the last calendar year, stretched across last season and this one.

Not all of them are positive, plenty of them are, but they've helped to shape the last year of action and have all been headline-grabbing stories in their own right. So, without further ado, and to keep it interesting and you lot on your toes, they'll be done completely at random and in no discerning chronological order....

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