Liverpool boss Arne Slot had a straight-faced chuckle and response to being asked about how he fancied the Reds’ chances to lift the title. “It tells you we are a very good team. Still three games to go until halfway, but we are a hard team to beat. If it was easy to win the league then every team would do it,” the boss would deadpan, according to BBC, soon after Liverpool slammed Tottenham Hotspurs 6-3. What piques watchers, and BBC elaborated, was how teams who celebrate Christmas Day top of the Premier League table, fare thereafter. “Exactly half the time – in 16 seasons out of 32 – the team top of the Premier League table on Christmas Day goes on to win the title,” BBC wrote, before adding, “Liverpool’s record though is much, much worse than that. This is the seventh time the Reds have stood first on 25 December – but their only success since the top-flight’s 1992 rebrand was in 2019-20.” In the history of English football, Liverpool have led at …