Chelsea's all-London start to the new Premier League season goes on as they face their most nearby rivals, Fulham. Enzo Maresca's world champions have already taken on Crystal Palace and West Ham with Brentford to come on the other side of the international break. Fulham have meanwhile shown themselves to be at least as good as Grimbsy Town with a draw against Manchester United last weekend having also shared the spoils against Brighton.
We're not saying the transfer market is having too big an impact on Premier League football but Liverpool's visit to Newcastle United on Monday evening would be a tick in that box if we were. Players moving and not moving. Teams gazumping one another for targets. Price tags set and unset, met and unmet it's nice to be talking about actual football again.
For Everton, the end of last season was all about Goodison Park. With the club's Premier League status secure there was room for sentiment. Everton said goodbye. Now, it's hello time. The first league visitors to the Hill Dickinson Stadium will be Brighton & Hove Albion, who know a thing or two about moving home themselves. After a defeat and a draw respectively on opening weekend, Everton and the Seagulls will be desperate to leave their mark on a historic day.
Mikel Arteta will be pleased with his side's winning start at Old Trafford - but the Gunners were pushed all the way by a much-improved Manchester United on MD1. Riccardo Calafiori's header was the only difference at the Theatre of Dreams, as Arsenal kept yet another clean sheet. Viktor Gyokeres caught the flak for his sub-par performance, but with Kai Havertz now out injured, time is ticking for the Swede to get off the mark and silence those critics.
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During the television interview with ARD on Sunday, Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD, appeared at times to struggle to hear the questions being asked of her as protesters gathered below the provisional stage for the interview in Berlin. The speakers of a bus used as part of the demonstration blared the anti-AfD song Schei AfD Jodler, which hindered the interview's audio quality significantly for viewers at home.
