Thirteen hours! You could fly all the way to Hawaii in that amount of time. Assuming you wanted to.

It is indeed one of those occasions away from home that every forward player will want to play in.

If the virus is anywhere near as virulent as Big Sam seems to be suggesting, might not Big Sam himself have come down with it by now?

Maybe you do not want to stop short but the brain takes over to protect the body.

He has almost never had to stand around all match, getting cold. And this is the art to being a fantastic goalkeeper.

It feels like a modern form of torture and although you're not wearing a big white pointy hat with a D for dunce on it, you might as well be.

You might conclude that it's the mark of a manager who doesn't seem to have the first clue what he's up to.

This type of planning by the manager is arguably as important as the tactical nous that he displays on a weekly basis.

That's the way reactions seem to go. Teams are said to lurch from rock-hard solidity to crisis, from boom to bust, in the space of one result.

Even at this stage of his career he seems to be still improving, but maybe he is just getting the opportunity to show off more of his talents.

Frantic, money-no-problem buying is something none of us could find acceptable. Unless, of course, the club was Chelsea.

If the game against Liverpool ends up a high scoring win for either side we can start believing that the Premier League has changed.

Maybe if Harry is willing to take up the case, something can be done by the FA on review.

'The top four now looks harder to get in to than gatecrashing a Mayfair private member club in jeans and a Chelsea home shirt.'