Conte’s Spurs have attacking weapons to derail Liverpool quadruple hopes

Saturday night brings stiffest league game left for Jürgen Klopp, and December’s wild draw shows how his side can be hurt

Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte. Adam Davy/PA Wire.

It was the worst of times. And it was also the worst of times. It is easy – and also probably best – to forget the most recent spike of Premier League Covid chaos, a febrile few weeks of Omicron-mayhem either side of Christmas that has now dissolved into just another note in the mildly hallucinogenic flipchart of crises and collapses that comprises the last two and a half years.

Scroll back five months and those dark December weeks were deeply unsettled.