The Premier League’s Big Six (maybe) break a record, and Stevie’s in trouble at Aston Villa – The Warm-Up

MONDAY’S BIG STORIES

Big Six dominate

There is only so much scrolling the Warm-Up is prepared to do on a Bank Holiday Monday morning, but after scanning through the previous three full seasons of Premier League results – that look us long enough… – we are ready to declare without complete confidence that the Big Six did something this weekend that they’ve NEVER done before. (Help us out if you’re reading this, Opta Joe.)

They all won! Victories for Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Manchester United and Arsenal on the weekend mean there will a great amount of smugness across the country after they all picked up three points in very different ways.

Wins for still-unbeaten Brighton and no-longer-pointless West Ham mean the weekend did not belong to the Big Six alone, but in an action-packed season broken up by the World Cup, you can’t help but wonder whether the most stacked teams in the league all winning so early in the season is a marker for things to come. Let’s see.

Uh oh, Stevie

Sure, that was only three games in for West Ham, but now they’ve got that monkey off their back the pressure is firmly on Gerrard, who has quite evidently lost the fans and would go some to win them back again.

With Arsenal away and Man City at home, it does not get any easier, and when you consider that they haven’t faced any of the current top 12, to have only beaten Everton and looked so off in the past three defeats shows why Gerrard is the favourite in the sack race.

Antony almost done

That does, of course, heap a mighty amount of pressure onto Antony, and as we’ve seen in the past, United and expensive signings aren’t always an ideal combo, the price tag often a burden that can never quite get shaken off. Just ask Paul Pogba, Harry Maguire, Romelu Lukaku, and of course, Angel Di Maria, whose wife was attempting to break the record for the most times someone has said “horrible” in one reply when asked about their experiences in the city.

IN OTHER NEWS

That may be a developing story this week, as surely more will come out of the fact Mathias Pogba announced “upcoming revelations about my brother” that will be “explosive”.

IN THE CHANNELS

Look, it’s Amir Khan with a fan! Boy, does he look familiar, I just.. Can’t… Quite. Put a name… Ah, yes, thanks for the heads up, Amir.

COMING UP

La Vuelta continues this week, the US Open starts this afternoon, and in the football, beyond Valencia v Atletico Madrid tonight, there’s a FULL Premier League round of matches from Tuesday to Thursday.