Weekend Review: The new season starts now

Luke, Jonny and Rory convene after a painful afternoon at the Etihad. But what's that? We're actually feeling good about it?! Jonny shares his reasons to be hopeful, including why Sunday might be the start of a brand new Mikel Arteta XI for the run-in.

Elsewhere, we relish that Gabriel and Erling Haaland battle for the ages, Rory proposes a new chess-based format to decide the league (you know what to do, Ez) and Emmanuel Eboué pops up because... why the hell not at a time like this? Join us!

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