LONDON — Is Liverpool's season over before it has barely begun?
It may seem ridiculous to write off a team's chances of winning the Premier League after just three games, but history is a powerful opponent and the record books show it takes 90 points to be champions.
Unless we are in for a freak season, that means any potential title-winners can lose only 24 points and already Liverpool has dropped six points — or one quarter of its "allocation." It lost only two games in all of last season.