Man City juggernaut starts to accelerate after brief skid

Man City 3 - Newcastle 1: When it comes to Manchester City, the rest of the Premier League has quite the conundrum to contend with at the moment.

On the one hand, if nobody else beats Pep Guardiola’s side in the next three weeks or so then you might as well send the Premier League trophy and the engraver to east Manchester now and get it over and done with.

On the other hand, if somebody does have the sheer effrontery — the shameless audacity — to defeat the best team in the country in the coming weeks then City will then simply redouble their efforts and win the Premier League title even faster.