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And she has continued to leverage her “Real Housewife” visibility to help advance her scripted pursuits, which this season’s premiere episode captures.

City sit second in this season's Premier League, five points behind leaders Liverpool, and are on a run of four successive defeats across all competitions.

This season’s late-game struggles seemed to only reinforce last year’s pattern of seven consecutive losses in games decided by three or fewer points.

But mostly, this season’s fires burn because, for big swaths of the Northeast—including New York City—this is, to date, the driest fall on record.

This season's four-point gap goes against the general trend.