Rub your eyes, check your optician’s prescription, put your contact lenses in – whatever helps to cope with the next few words: Sixteen Premier League matches since March, SIXTEEN WINS! Only Man City’s eighteen game winning streak is ahead of it now. Throw in the more important stat: Liverpool top the division with seven wins out of seven. Five points clear of their only rival.

The rest of this article is for subscribers only.

[ttt-subscribe-article]