Smaller clubs give the established order a thing or two to think about

1 Crystal Palace midfielder Jason Puncheon leaves Chelsea’s Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matic for dead at Stamford Bridge.2 Swansea’s Bafetimbi Gomis has been in prolific and scored in all four of their matches.3 United’s new France international Anthony Martial could end up[ costing in the region of 58mil.

THE Premier League that we waited for so long has now been interrupted by this week’s international break, set aside for, among other things, European Championship qualifiers.

Manchester City will be the team most annoyed by this untimely intervention, while others like Chelsea will no doubt welcome the interlude as a measure of respite and use it to ponder what has gone so badly wrong and how to fix it. The champions find themselves stuck in 13th place on the log.