What's the fuss about this Liverpool team?

Matchday has changed and football may never look the same again. But at least it’s back and there’s still lots to enjoy.

Here’s some of the top football tweets since the season resumed.

1. Is goalline tech on furlough?

Premier League football returned Wednesday 17 June 2020, 6pm. Goalline tech arrived a little later – not in time to spot the ball clearly going over Orjan Nyland’s line.

In the 41st minute, the Aston Villa keeper clearly fell behind the goal-line clutching the ball, only for referee Michael Oliver’s watch to fail to signal a goal.

That cost Sheffield United, who are chasing European spots, a match-winning goal. 

2. Liverpool's poor run continues

What's all the fuss about this Liverpool side hey?

There's no chance of an actual victory parade for anyone right now for obvious reasons, but Liverpool will have to wait to be crowned either way, after a fairly stale Merseyside derby.

There was a surprise name on the team-sheet for the Reds, with Minamino in for Salah. It certainly seemed to catch commentator John Barnes off-guard anyway. He opted for a pronunciation somewhere between 'Mini Moto' and ‘Motorola’.

3. Statement looks

Some things are bigger than football. Since the Premier League went on pause, the world has been through some big, tough conversations and, all over the UK, players have been making statements and gestures around race and equality – with teams taking the knee before kick-off, as well as paying their respects to those lost to the Covid-19 pandemic and the key workers who have supported us.

Trent Alexander-Arnold delivered this message on Sunday.

Meanwhile, Swansea's Rhian Brewster made his feelings clear when he returned on the weekend. He also bagged a brace in a 3-0 win against Middlesbrough.

4. Ease lockdowns on barbershops now, for all our sakes 

With the various cosmetic changes to the way that football is having to be played under coronavirus restrictions, we wonder if it will ever look the same again. 

In the meantime, we certainly won’t ever be able to look at Dean Smith and Frank Lampard the same way again after seeing this face app reimagining. 

5. When a ponytail is just no longer enough

Sticking to the 'remarkable hair' theme, Andy Carroll had this lockdown effort to show off.

6. Roy Keane reached new levels of Roy Keane

Tottenham Hotspur hosted Manchester United on Friday night.

The north London side went ahead within 30 minutes, partly thanks to some at-best casual defending by Harry Maguire - and what can only be described as masochistic goalkeeping by David de Gea.

If they were beating themselves up about it at half-time, they were probably spared. This is what the former Red Devil had to say in his half-time ‘analysis’.

Some have suggested it was faux-rage from Keano.

To those people, we point to this story from the Irishman’s time as assistant manager of Nottingham Forest.

Keane also claimed he would have made the save De Gea made against Son. His former team-mate Ole Gunnar Solskjaer gave a, well, diplomatic response to the whole thing. 

7. Defiant in victory

Arsenal have had a bad week. Their opening game was a calamity of fairly epic-proportions, with two major injuries in the first half and a sending-off, as they lost 3-0 to Manchester City.

That was followed up by another bad result on the weekend against a bogey-team.

If David Luiz was the arch-villain of the piece last Wednesday, Saturday’s baddie was definitely Neal Maupay of Brighton. 

As well as scoring an injury-time winner, he was also involved in a clash with keeper Bernd Leno, which saw the latter carried off on a stretcher.

Maupay's role in the incident seemed to anger Leno's team-mates, some of whom became embroiled in a shoving match with the striker at full-time.

Did he show any contrition? 

Not really then…

Not every Gunner was completely furious with the whole thing, at least. 

8. Standing on ceremony

In a week in which the Health Secretary Matt Hancock got a bit of stick for calling Marcus Rashford, the unofficial leader of the opposition, 'Daniel Rashford', politicians are probably keen to show that they really are relatable football fans – just like us.

Just one question – who watches football this way in their own home?

To be fair to Rishi, perhaps what he’s done here is try to capture the ambiance of a real stadium concourse. Just put a pie stand in there – maybe slosh some beer on the floor - and it will feel really authentic.

9. Star man in the stands

Clubs everywhere are looking for a way to recreate matchday atmosphere. This was a nice touch from Galatasaray. The late, great Kobe Bryant visited the Turkish giants in 2011 and they clearly haven’t forgotten.

10. The ultimate consolation prize 

In a world where nothing feels familiar, perhaps the most astonishing football story of the weekend came from the Russian Premier League.

11. We’re still waiting to find out 

And, finally, football may be back, but some questions remain unanswered.