No fans or pre-season but goals galore – this could be the Premier League's strangest season yet

If you looked at the Premier League table without any context, you would be forgiven for thinking that English football had entered a time warp, landing back in some kind of ‘bonus’ 1980s campaign, in which a smattering of the decade’s most successful sides are battling it out for top spot. A top three of Everton, Aston Villa and Liverpool wouldn’t have been out of place then – albeit when Villa were Champions, Everton were still languishing down in 15th, and when the Toffees won the league in ‘…