Recovery mode, Pep?

THE expression this week is ‘Recovery Mode’ – whether it be about the iphone XS you unwittingly dropped down the loo and prayed for it to regain its normal functions.

Or the return to normal function that currently discombobulated Premier League bosses yearn for.

Today, Ole’s boys will hope they can sashay back into the winning two-step they momentarily forget when they stumbled 2-2 against the Clarets – but United are up against the Foxes, who bumped Klopp’s boys right out of their stride in midweek.

Of even more pressing need is Pep’s for his side to rediscover their momentum, after losing 2-1 to Toon. They face an Arsenal side with an often bamboozled look – mostly seen receiving Unai’s sideline instructions.

We’re also witnessing a bit more of the real Jurgen, his uncelebratory demeanour after Sadio Mane put the Reds 1-0 up against Leicester revealing how title tension is finally getting to him – as did having the second-half Kop end cleared of snow, but not the Anfield Road one. He is

lucky in that tomorrow’s fodder, West Ham, are the Prem’s true schizophrenics. Marko Arnautovic, for sure, has heard strange voices telling him to go one way, then the other – some in Mandarin, some in Spanish, some more directly in Estuary English.

And will Tony Pulis have to be put into recovery mode after hometown Newport cause a cupset to his Boro?

There’s lovely for you... maybe.