Four games, three wins and one draw. Ten points on the board and Liverpool are top of the league for the first time since the days when El Hadji Diouf and Salif Diao "graced" Anfield.
Starts to the season don't come much better than this. Not unless you go back to the 1987-88 season when Liverpool went 29 games unbeaten before losing at Goodison Park of all places.
So far, we have seen Aston Villa beaten at Villa Park (something I can't see many other teams doing this season), Sunderland battered and comfortably beaten at the Stadium of Light and Derby County thoroughly demolished at Anfield.
Only Chelsea have taken any points off the Reds and that was only because Rob Styles went all Mr Magoo on us and gave them one of the most ridiculous penalties you've ever seen.

Despite undeservedly dropping two points in that game, it is undoubtedly a case of so far so good for Rafa Benitez's men.
But Saturday is the big test. A game which could give us the truest indication yet of just how far this Liverpool team can go.
Portsmouth at Fratton Park is always one of the most difficult assignments of the season as Liverpool have found out to their cost many times in years gone by.
Go there and win this time around and it sends out a message to the rest of the Premiership that the Reds really are coming up the hill boys.
A draw would by no means be a bad result even if it would probably mean we would lose top spot come Saturday evening.
But a defeat could easily cost confidence and lead to our rivals wondering if we really do have what it takes to be champions.
Make no mistake about it, championships are won and lost at places like Fratton Park.
Teams like Portsmouth who rarely lose at home are usually the toughest of nuts to crack, particularly with the atmosphere the fans can create down there.
But Liverpool are well capable of beating them. They have the better squad, better team and better manager.
The key is to ensure they are also in a better frame of mind because if they are it will give them every chance of securing one of those results which can define a season.

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