There've been talking points aplenty in the first few weeks of the top-flight campaign. Tim Ellis takes a look at some of the key issues
1. In-box wrestling racking up pens
Shawcross admitted he'll now have to change the way he defends set-pieces, but the stricter implementation of the rule has caused more confusion than clarity
Mike Dean's waging a one-man war against grappling in the box this term, so it’s a good job Liverpool offloaded serial shirt-puller Martin Skrtel to Fenerbahce in the summer. Stoke's Ryan Shawcross and Manchester City's Raheem Sterling were both penalised by the strutting whistleblower for that offence in the same game, while Bournemouth's Charlie Daniels has also fallen foul of a new directive aiming to clamp down on the problem.