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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Liverpool have burst out of the traps in title race – can they keep it going?

Liverpool fans hold aloft an Arne Slot banner
Liverpool fans hold aloft an Arne Slot banner. Photograph: Matt West/Shutterstock

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While Football Daily only has two hands and needs both of them to type this drivel every day, we can’t help but feel the pair of them would have been snapped or bitten off if we’d offered Liverpool fans a five-point lead at the top after 11 games before a ball had been kicked in this season’s Premier League. While the denizens of Anfield had no particular reason to believe Arne Slot wouldn’t do a decent job as successor to Jürgen Klopp, the managerial shoes into which he was stepping were undeniably huge. And if they needed proof that follicly-challenged Dutchmen are capable of making a pig’s ear of managing an elite English club in their first big job outside of the Netherlands, well … let’s just say they didn’t have to travel too far to seek it out.

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