As football rallying cries go, surely nothing rouses the competitive soul more than “another day to go after our objectives.”

That was the call to arms from the Twitter account of Manchester City midfielder Fernandinho ahead of their trip to Anfield on Sunday.

It was - appropriately enough, it turned out - a goalless draw of a tweet, one of dozens sent out into the anticipatory ether every weekend by (or, at least, on behalf of) Premier League players.

The Premier League even curate an official feed of players’ Twitter output, a stunningly unobjectionable stream of sporting platitudes, semi-embarrassed endorsements and surprisingly frequent reminders, if you needed them, that “God is great” (the big man was unavailable for comment, but His official Twitter feed confirmed He was “happy with the result! #onwardsandupwards”).