A six-week World Cup break has been rather odd but it seems Arsenal are top, Newcastle third and Everton are still in crisis
This season’s Premier League. Remember it? It kicked off back in August before taking a six-week hiatus so we could all enjoy the first ever winter World Cup. Well, it’s back on Boxing Day, so now seems as good as time as any to provide a quick primer for readers who, like this column, may have been so preoccupied by events in Doha they’ve been being paying scant attention to goings on closer to home.
Consider it born out of our surprise upon discovering that Liverpool winger Luis Díaz could be out for the rest of the season with the recurrence of a knee injury his manager Jürgen Klopp has described as a “proper smash in the face”. Or knee, presumably.
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