Last season brought a smashing of the Big Six, with the status quo scattered up and down the table as the unusual suspects put a stake in the ground. Will the Premier League revert back to type, with the heavyweights all rising to the top this season? Or is this the start of something new, with smaller sides continuing to compete?
While several of their rivals floundered, however, Manchester City were reliably extraordinary. It’s time to do it all again: Erling Haaland is waking up from hibernation, Jack Grealish has just about caught
