Clocks back. Standards up.

Football has managed to move the match and the country has managed to move the clocks. Between them, they have given the group chat a proper examination. Here is the useful bit first: Liverpool are scheduled to host Brighton at Anfield on Sunday 25 October, 2pm GMT. Check that against the old screenshot doing the rounds before anybody books a Saturday around it.

This is our Friday edition, dated 23 October. It brings together the practical checks, a bit of football argument and something to read when you have had enough of somebody announcing a crisis into a microphone.

Sunday means Sunday.

Liverpool’s fixture announcement moved the game from Saturday 24 October to Sunday 25 October, with a 2pm GMT kick-off and Sky Sports coverage in the UK. The club attributed the change to Brighton’s Conference League qualification. That is the dated announcement; the current club fixture page is the place to check for any further change.

The clocks go back an hour at 2am on Sunday morning. GOV.UK confirms 25 October as this year’s change, so kick-off is 14:00 GMT / UTC. An extra hour in bed before Brighton. For once, a change to the weekend arrangements has done us a favour.

Check the journey as well as the team sheet.

The Met Office’s Storm Boelo forecast describes a windy, wet weekend affecting northern parts of the UK. That makes the journey worth a fresh check. Use its current warning map for your route, and your transport operator’s live service information before leaving.

A weather warning is not a football postponement announcement. At our Friday check, Liverpool’s fixture page still listed Brighton; this edition is not confirmation that conditions or services will remain unchanged. Follow the club for match-status decisions. A dramatic headline with “could” in it is still a headline with “could” in it.

Liverpool’s travel page has the current transport information, and our way-home guide covers the return leg. Getting there is the exciting bit. Getting stranded afterwards rather takes the shine off it.

A bit of control would be lovely.

Our reaction to the 4–3 Villarreal win argued that enjoying the recovery and questioning the defending can happen at the same time. It remains the useful argument going into Sunday. Nobody needs to apologise for celebrating. Equally, a comeback should not become a standing arrangement where Liverpool first provide the opposition with a generous head start.

Our view: a win without the rescue operation would do nicely. Going behind before deciding to play is a rotten habit, however good the comeback looks afterwards. Brighton at home feels like a perfectly reasonable time to give everybody’s nerves the afternoon off.

We love a grand Anfield occasion as much as anyone. We would also happily take a dull last ten minutes with the points looking safe. No epic, no miracle, just the opposition running out of ideas. Luxury.

Three stops, then get on with your weekend.

• Selection: This Is Anfield’s Friday report says Bradley Barcola is available, Victor Muñoz remains a doubt and Dominik Szoboszlai is unavailable. The starting eleven is still to come.
• Watch: the video shelf has the Redmen TV Brighton preview alongside the club’s latest coverage. Plenty there to agree with, argue with, or stick on while the kettle boils.
• Read something with a longer life: the Liver Bird was here before the football badge. Our illustrated history follows it from a medieval seal to the waterfront and the shirt. Six pictures, a German sculptor and a city that belongs to more than one set of supporters. Even the Blues can have this one.

That is enough tabs for one sitting. The back pages keep the earlier features, and the headline desk keeps refreshing. This dated edition stays in the archive as a record of the weekend’s reading; use the club’s current information for later travel and fixture decisions.