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Seven weeks on from promotion, the rollercoaster of football in 2020 resumes with the latest start to a new season since 1889. Of course, we're now back in the promised land, but as it seems in our absence to have acquired VAR and a half-decent Wolves team, I'm not sure the promise is all it's cracked up to be. Nevertheless, on Sunday afternoon we get the ball rolling on the survival campaign, playing host to Leicester at the Hawthorns.

Having suffered a brief slump after the stars aligned for them in 2016, the Foxes enjoyed a renaissance last year with a 5th place finish largely inspired by Jamie Vardy's 23 Premier League goals, as the 33-year-old blasted his way to the Golden Boot for the first time. It's no coincidence that his relative loss of form in the back half of the season accompanied a slump for Leicester overall, and despite boasting the likes of Iheanacho, Ayoze Perez and a certain Harvey Barnes, he remains the man that Albion must keep quiet to take points from this match. No easy task, considering his prolific record against us. In fact, for over a decade Albion's showings against the East Midlanders have been woeful, particularly at home, where we've suffered four consecutive defeats since our 3-0 victory under Roberto Di Matteo in April 2010. Somehow we've got to shake off our own late-season malaise from July, face up to our bogey team on Sunday, and start this trickiest of seasons as we mean to go on.