Antonio Conte’s team can keep producing results like Leicester 0 Chelsea 3.
Man City’s biggest problem is their back five.
Tottenham’s biggest problem is that they can’t finish above Arsenal.
But they thrashed a tepid West Brom 4-0 at the Lane and Harry Kane got a hat-trick.
Since 1961 the biggest problem Tottenham have had is Arsenal, who have won the title twice at White Hart Lane since Spurs were last champions.
Arsenal’s biggest problem is that Wenger plans to stay two more years.
Everton beat Man City 4-0 and 18-year-old midfielder Tom Davies, a local lad who scored the third goal, was superb from the start.
I thought Ander Herrera should have been sent off near the end of Man United 1 Liverpool 1.
Herrera demonstrated Bruce Lee’s handspeed when he grabbed Firmino’s shirt with his left hand to slow him down in centrefield, then managed to grab the front of his shirt with his right hand as well.
Firmino, angry about the extreme cynicism of the second tug, pushed Herrera over and ref Michael Oliver gave them a yellow card each. A cowardly compromise, I thought.
Klopp was incandescent. So was I.
Liverpool had started in top gear and dominated the first half hour and went ahead after Pogba, unable to contain Lovren on the set-pieces, allowed the ball to hit his high arm, as he can do when he’s playing basketball. A stonewall pen in any game, no controversy over that.
The reliable James Milner, took it beautifully to put Liverpool 1-0 up.
The second half was scrappy & frenetic. As they ran out of time, United hit long balls to beat the press, and the equaliser came after two crosses by Valencia.
Rooney, who had replaced Carrick at half-time, was on the left side of the box when Valencia’s first cross reaches him and his ball in was headed against the outside of the post by Fellaini and rebounded to Valencia, who measured another cross to the near post.
The six foot five Zlatan stopped to four foot five and headed in off the underside.
1-1 in 84 and it finished that way.
Liverpool’s point keeps them just above Arsenal.
While dropping two points keeps United below Man City.
The biggest problem luckless Everton have had is Liverpool, whose glittering collection of trophies made them almost invisible.
Then Liverpool’s 1985 Heysel disaster, where 39 people, mostly Juventus supporters, were killed, got Everton and all British clubs banned from the European Cup.
Howard Kendall’s compact, balanced team kept 18 clean sheets when they won the title in 1985 and also won the Cup Winners Cup the same season.
That was the best team they’d had in my lifetime, superior to the 1970 team that Kendall played in.
They were well equipped for a crack at the big clubs. But we’ll never know what they might have done
West Ham’s biggest problem this season is what they did last season.
The Hammers overachieved in 2014/16 and we all thought they were better than they are.
I still think Slaven Bilic is a good manager.
But not as good as the famous managers that this league can now boast:
Premier League manager table after 21 games:
1. Antonio Conte 52
2. Mauricio Pochettino 45
3. Jurgen Klopp 45
4. Arsene Wenger 44
5. Pep Guardiola 42
6. Jose Mourinho 40
7. Ronald Koeman 33