Liverpool are 13 points clear of Arsenal with 10 matches left to play. Nobody has ever lost the title from a position of such strength so late into a season. Only once has a team overturned a 13-point deficit. That team was Arsenal in 1997/98, but they started to cut the lead in December, not in February.

In his debut season of regular top-flight football, Andrew Cole immediately lit up the Premier League by scoring 34 times, recording 13 assists, to become the first player to top the goal and assists charts in the same season.

The way the narratives of their respective seasons have gone, it might be a shock to discover that Brighton & Hove Albion - floating along in midtable under Fabian Hurzeler - and AFC Bournemouth, media darlings under Andoni Iraola, are now level on points.

Arsenal lost more ground on leaders Liverpool in the Premier League title race after being held to a 0-0 draw by Nottingham Forest. In a contest between second and third at the City Ground, neither side were able to claim the win needed to boost their lofty ambitions this season.

A further six points back are Nottingham Forest on 48 points in third, which is where the most intense portion of the race for Europe really begins. Behind Forest, Man City have 47 points, Chelsea 46, Newcastle United 44, and AFC Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion both on 43.

Football writer Ben Bloom looks at the sides in FA Cup fifth-round action and what to expect. Just 16 teams remain as the FA Cup reaches the business end of the competition and supporters start to dream of Wembley ahead of the fifth round this weekend.

With so many popular players unavailable in BGW29, many managers will dead-end their squads by focusing their transfers on the next four Gameweeks alone. They will then use their Wildcard in Gameweek 30 to refresh their squad in preparation for the run-in.