Come back soon Premier League, the endlessly moreish mega-product | Barney Ronay

Brighton have impressed in a goal-laden start to the season, in a league that remains a brutally strong attraction Get ready for the dopamine crash.

And this one really is a proper autumn nosedive.

The past 17 days up to and including Sunday’s cut-off gave us 30 Premier League games and 79 goals.

Which, if you take Spurs out of it – and this is fair because Spurs are now post‑goal, an entertainment concept unrelated to goals or even football itself – is really quite a lot.

Are your pathways stimulated? Are the neural connectors flickering? Well get ready for cold turkey, for 19 blank days of shivers and shakes until the Premier League show resumes in October.

Maybe it really is time to buy one of those powders off the internet.

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