Because it's going to happen, and it's going to happen this season, so I might as well kick off the congratulatory thread now. With Manchester United shorn of anyone possessing as much as an iota of tactical nouse, and shortly to lose their playmaking and goalscoring fulcrum; Chelsea players adjusting to a manager who might, impudently, have the temerity to start telling them what to do and also having the best of their number poached by Inter; Arsenal being their usual dilettante selves and Hull City still a quality target man away from being a serious threat, the way is open for Liverpool to stride to the title, led by their terrifyingly astute manager and the best striker in Europe.

In short, only a fool would dispute that the top spot is theirs on a plate. Surely even they couldn't contrive to pull fourth place out of the hat again?

Anyone who doesn't like celebratory bragging served with a large side-order of sanctimony better take cover.