Week 2 of the English Premier League sees both Manchester clubs, Chelsea, and Hull remain the only clubs to take maximum points from their first two games.

The bookmakers got it horribly wrong last season. Leicester took the applecart, ate all the apples, and then turned the cart into a rocking chair. Two games into the 2016/17 English Premier League (EPL) Season and things are back on track.

Pep Guardiola’s 4-1 victory at Stoke’s newly named Bet365 stadium was a slightly exaggerated scoreline, but it was also an emphatic message that the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach is settling in very nicely thank you.

It will be a game remembered as the day referee Mike Dean laid down a marker for the rest of the season. Dean loves giving penalties. He has pointed to the spot 16 times since the beginning of last season, and nobody can match that figure. It will rise. Dean was taking a no-nonsense approach to shirt pulling in the penalty area giving two penalties for infringements on both sides.