The Premier League table is starting to have a 1979 kind of feel to it — with Liverpool at the top of the standings and Nottingham Forest in second place as the closest challenger. Liverpool padded its lead with a 5-0 rout of West Ham on Sunday,

With 39 points and at the top of the Premier League, Liverpool are heading into the festive period as ‘winter champions’, a title that has not boded well for the leading teams in the past with recent ‘winter champions’ slipping up as the season advances. This is a curse that Liverpool under the guidance of Arne Slot will be keen to break.

Forest find themselves in uncharted territory. Or, more accurately, territory they have not explored in the best part of three decades