Well the predictions were rubbish (as usual) but it seemed like a good day in the Premier league.
Arsenal won helped by a dubious sending off of Gary Cahill, all the goals were supposed to be goal of the month contenders so it will be worth watching, also we can have a laugh at Alex Songs new haircut.
Fulham won despite having lumps kicked out of them by Wolves Bobby Zamora didn't survive the battle.
The Hammers obviously lost but it might have been closer the commentary said that Piquionnandon managed to miss an open goal from a yard out after Parker had finally pulled one back (the first league goal conceded this season by Chelsea).
Man Utd managed to drop 2 points after leading 3-1 in injury time, Rooney was rested .
Blackburn held Man City thanks to some great defending.
Tottenham held West Brom thanks to Carlo Cudicini, Modric became the latest Spud on crutches.
Asamoah Gyan came on to score and pay off some of that £13 million for Sunderland against Wigan but it wasn't enough as Wigan equalised.
The star performance of the day was Blackpool who won at Newcastle although it sounded like Blackpool keeper Gilkes was the man of the match, Holly should be buzzing.
I watched the West Ham/Chels game on here and we didn't play that well really but the truth is,we didn't need to with your defending/shooting/heading. You are in for a long hard season and I cannot see Grant lasting the distance to be honest. You should kept Zola mate.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a bit depressing for a number of years, we haven't had a team with any fight since the Pardew/Curbishley one that fought off relegation a few years back, and most of those british players like Collins, Zamora, Harewood, McCartney, Mullins, Reo Coker etc (+ tevez) have been sold off and replaced with second rate foreign imports who don't seem to have any heart for a fight :(
ReplyDeleteWe used to be proud of having had fewer managers than any other team but now we are changing managers nearly every season, Pardew was doing well but after a few bad results he was gone as the new regime wanted to stamp their authority, Curbishley inherited a good team but managed to screw it with some bad signings, Zola was promising but also made bad signings and wasn't fancied by Sullivan/Gold so got no support.
Avram Grant is probably a good manager but I'm not sure he can build a team from scratch? the signings he's made so far with the Pompey rejects and more second rate foreigners don't bode well, his one good signing Hitzelsperger is injured and I was reasonably impressed by Obinna who could be good but Piquionne and Ben Haim why? and why did he sell our one skillful player Diamante?
I'm sure things will get better soon but I can't see anything more than lower mid table this season :(