Wait: haven’t they only just finished? The confetti has barely been cleared up at Anfield, yet here we are again, locked and loaded to go once more.
Last term turned out to be the top tier’s strangest, most affected campaign since Britain was blighted by 1962-63’s big freeze. It took 11 months of madness to complete, punctuated by a global pandemic and postponements - but as we stumbled to the finish line, a number of things became clear.