The Premier League is back - strap yourself in 📅 79 games before World Cup (eight between the Big Six) 👤 Managers at risk, players with points prove 🎽 Some clubs play 13 games before Qatar ⚽ Starts with north London derby tomorrow 📝 PJBuckingham
but first comes a concertinaed period that will shape the ambitions of all 20 top-flight clubs for the remainder of the season.
If the season has been gentle to this point, with postponements and an international break disrupting the tempo and rhythm, this is the moment when it all shifts up a gear., the games are big and the potential plot lines abundant. Points are there to be proved — and won — every few days. There will be eight meetings of the Big Six. And a handful of managerial jobs rest precariously on the line.