Disgrace

Dirty Vertongen wiping bogies all over Torres thumb, it's a disgrace.

Is it the early seventies again? Man Utd are shit and Clough has been sacked by Derby.

Van Ginkel is out for 6 months, which is great news for Juan Mata ... He'll have someone to talk to in the stands.

I've just seen a referee in a pink and yellow quartered shirt ... it was Mark Battenberg. 

Gareth Barry has revealed the chance to play under Roberto Martinez was a big factor in his decision to join Everton... Man city telling him "F*ck off, you useless c*nt" was also a consideration.

Premier Predictions (Week 6)

Tottenham v Chelsea
Hull v West Ham
Aston Villa v Man City
Man Utd v West Brom
Fulham v Cardiff
Southampton v C Palace
Swansea v Arsenal
Stoke v Norwich
Sunderland v Liverpool
Everton v Newcastle

Saturday
AVB v No Way Jose, big test for the Y words to see if their new collective XI can be better than the old one- man team.
West Ham have a strictly must win game against Brucie's Tiggers.
Villa will be dreading facing Man City now they've hit form and also having lost their star striker.
Man U need to start winning to stay in touch with the leaders and will hope RVP is fit.
Arsenal's injury prone stars face the best footballing side in the division, could be good.
Saints v Palace, probably the best bit will be Pochetino's interpreter trying to translate Holloway's rants and words of wisdom.
Fulham v Cardiff, the other game.

On Sunday
How will those pampered little darlings of Blunderland cope without that nasty man shouting at them? not good that they have to share a field with the cannibal who according to his manager is "chomping at the bit" and "hungry" :)
Norwich at Stoke, Gary Hooper's fit so it will be good to see if he can cut it at this level.

Monday
Unbeaten Everton against Le Toon, should be the Toffee's game but Newcastle are always unpredictable.

Good luck all :)

Bye Paolo

Bye bye Paolo DiCanio the least surprising Premier manager sacking of recent seasons.
It was fun for the rest of us but I think we all knew it was just a matter of time before the loveable loon was shown the door.
The main surprise was that they had offered him the job full time, and after allowing him to bring in 14 players during the summer break you would have expected them to give him a bit more time.


They have been a bit unlucky in the last 2 games with some dubious reffing in the Arsenal game and the late injury to Fletcher after using 3 subs in Saturday's game.
The team Paolo inherited were piss poor and he did well to inspire them enough to stay up, and as they decided he was to be the future of Sunderland and not just a quick fix, they should have given him more time.

For the record - Played 13, W 3, D 3, L 7, F 15, A 24 including a 3-0 away win over the Geordies.

Premier Predictions (Week 5)

Saturday and Sunday games this week, West London derby on Saturday, Manc derby on Sunday.
Will the Chelsea boys get off the mark? will Lukaku send a message to Jose (hope not).
Good luck all :)

Norwich v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Southampton
Newcastle v Hull
West Brom v Sunderland
West Ham v Everton
Chelsea v Fulham

Arsenal v Stoke
C Palace v Swansea
Cardiff v Tottenham
Man City v Man Utd

Premier Predictions (Week 4)

Still can't get used to England playing in German shirts, but the results were not too bad.
Anyway International break over, back to the real stuff :)
 10 games this week spread over 3 days, 8 on Saturday.
First chance to see all these new "superstars"our clubs have spent millions on, maybe we've even heard of some of them?

Man Utd v Crystal Palace
Aston Villa v Newcastle
Fulham v West Brom
Hull v Cardiff
Stoke v Man City
Sunderland v Arsenal
Tottenham v Norwich
Everton v Chelsea
Southampton v West Ham
Swansea v Liverpool

Bale Saga

The summer long Bale transfer looks like it's finally going through today.
Tottenham must be sweating as they've spent all the money already, and I really don't know how this "financial fair play" thing works?
Once again I hear West Ham can't bring anyone in because of the wage restrictions and yet Tottenham can sign a bundle of high wage players despite only averaging a thousand more fans per game than us??

I personally think AVB must be sweating as if Bale goes the team doesn't look anywhere near as good as what he had last year, Bale and Dempsey were 2 players always likely to get you a goal and Parker, Huddlestone, Caulker and Livermore are all good premiership players.
Paulinho looks a good solid midfielder and Soldado has a good goal scoring record in Spain but the others are virually unknown to me, and a lot of foreign players do struggle to settle in.