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The battle commences

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The English Premier League starts today. The world's most popular football league is back after a three months hiatus.
The new season promises more excitement, thrills, drama, upsets and surprises.
Champions Manchester City will battle a resurgent Manchester United as well as Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool to hold onto their Premier League crown.
After a wretched 2013-14, United have a new manager at the helm in veteran Dutch tactician Louis van Gaal, who quickly won over the club's fans during a successful pre-season tour of the United States.
Last season's seventh-placed finish under David Moyes, their worst ever in the Premier League, was all the more galling as neighbours City clinched a second title in three seasons almost by default after Liverpool buckled and Chelsea shot themselves in the foot.
United have also invested heavily, signing Luke Shaw and Ander Herrera for a combined fee of around 60 million pounds, but Van Gaal is likely to prove their most important acquisition.
Buoyed by having guided the Netherlands to the World Cup semifinals, the 63-year-old Dutchman blew into the club like a whirlwind and his new 3-4-1-2 system yielded instant results on the tour of the US.
Ander Herrera from Spain is already being talked about as the new Paul Scholes and he can solve United's midfield woes.
The loss of top-scorer Luis Suarez (sold to Barcelona) was a bitter blow for Liverpool, but their squad now looks better equipped for the twin rigours of domestic and European football thanks to a £90 million
splurge partly financed by the Uruguayan's sale.
2013-14 runners-up Liverpool raided Southampton for forwards Adam Lallana and Rickie Lambert and defender Dejan Lovren, as well as paying 20 million pounds for Benfica winger Lazar Markovic.
Champions City strengthened their ranks by signing six new players, with the 32-million-pound capture of French centre-back Eliaquim Mangala from Porto their biggest so far.
City manager Manuel Pellegrini has added extra quality to an already formidable ensemble with right back Bacary Sagna joining from Arsenal,
keeper Willy Caballero from Malaga and former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard arriving on a six-month loan from New York City FC.
Third-place finishers Chelsea look stronger with 32-million-pound striker Diego Costa and Filipe Luis signed from Spanish champions Atletico Madrid and former Arsenal hero Cesc Fabregas snapped up from Barcelona, not to mention veteran striker and club hero Didier Drogba back in navy blue adding quality and experience. Also goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois returns from his long-term loan at Atletico Madrid to challenge Petr Cech for the number one jersey.
Arsenal, meanwhile, will start the season with three World Cup-winners in their ranks and having pulled off another transfer coup with a 30-million-pound swoop for Chile forward Alexis Sanchez.
Sanchez's arrival should give Arsenal greater cutting edge and last season's FA Cup success means that they must no longer bear the burden of a nine-year trophy drought.
The scrap for top-four places promises to be tastier than ever this season with Tottenham Hotspur, under new coach Mauricio Pochettino, and Roberto Martinez's Everton likely to be hovering on the fringes.
Outside the top eight, the rest of the clubs will be anxious to stay away from trouble.
For promoted Burnley, Leicester City and Queens Park Rangers, survival will be the target while the likes of Aston Villa, West Ham United, Southampton and Swansea City could all find themselves at the wrong end of the table.
A year on from the inauguration of goal-line technology, the Premier League will embrace another innovation with the introduction of the vanishing spray used by referees during the World Cup.