Premier League break time favours sneaking ketchup over playing fixtures catch-up – The Warm-Up

Monday’s Big Stories The winter break is here Ad/> Break time! Although this one is less tig, duck duck goose, and hopscotch… more jetpacks in Dubai, holidays with bae, and probably some 3.3* reviewed £600+ steaks sliced up by Salt Bae. TransfersNice want Gil loan as Traore arrival blocks Spaniard's path to Spurs first team — reportsYESTERDAY AT 12:22 Yes, never mind the backlog of fixtures – with 22 postponed games needing to be played – the Premier League players are having a break, and we can expect to hear of their exciting escapades across the tabloids in the coming days, though perhaps some of their culinary decisions will be kept secret given the ever-growing ban on condiments.

Anyway, for those wishing to focus on football, there are of course other distractions, but Premier League die-hards can spend almost a fortnight trying to make sense of the table before we start previewing what will be a frantic four months come the start of February. It's an absolute mess.

/> Rule No 1 of a table where there are games in hand: you always optimistically give your own team maximum points. And all of a sudden Liverpool fans will be hoping the title race is back on, Burnley supporters will be believing they can climb out of relegation trouble, and then the top-four tussle, well, that is just about anyone’s guess.

From seemingly nowhere, Manchester United could go three points behind Chelsea if they win their games in hand, Arsenal within two, while Spurs are a staggering four games behind Chelsea and could yet overtake them. A result yesterday would have really helped… Size of the task at Spurs: Ever-increasing Indeed, over at the Bridge Chelsea made it three January wins from three over Tottenham to strengthen their chances