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« Reply #1680 on: September 12, 2015, 08:31:12 AM »
Watching Man City and CP. Aguero out with  a knee problem.  He is replaced with a 54 million pound sub. Wow the top five teams have all these players. When one man goes down they are with an equally impressive player. So much for accusations of stock piling.

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« Reply #1681 on: September 12, 2015, 09:05:13 AM »
Mourinho done, his style not helping Chelsea.

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« Reply #1682 on: September 12, 2015, 09:13:12 AM »
Great to see a club with Palace's legacy,  going toe to toe with City. Just seeing de old school dread in de stands was heartwarming.

Deeks, ent Palace is a kind of "community team" with an intimate ground that you could vibe?

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« Reply #1683 on: September 12, 2015, 09:16:42 AM »
Poor Navas! He needed a lil David Accam on that finish rather than ah El Niño Torres mishap.

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« Reply #1684 on: September 12, 2015, 10:14:06 AM »
Preview of Manchester United v Liverpool
Jamie Jackson, (The Guardian).




Man Utd: No Rooney. Fellaini. Going 4-2-3-1. Romero on the bench, De Gea gets the nod. No Schneiderlin. Carrick in.

Liverpool: Going 4-4-2. Ings with Benteke.

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« Reply #1685 on: September 12, 2015, 10:35:06 AM »
Great to see a club with Palace's legacy,  going toe to toe with City. Just seeing de old school dread in de stands was heartwarming.

Deeks, ent Palace is a kind of "community team" with an intimate ground that you could vibe?

Breds, football can be cruel sometimes. Palace played great football to earn at least a point. But they had to play to the final whistle. It was a real good game. If palace can play away from home like that and get a couple wins or a point, then other teams in trouble. Congrats to City.

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« Reply #1686 on: September 12, 2015, 12:13:35 PM »
What a cooking goal by Bentike!!!

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« Reply #1687 on: September 12, 2015, 12:14:12 PM »
What a sweet goal by Martial.

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« Reply #1688 on: September 12, 2015, 12:17:32 PM »
What are the chances of Brendan  keeping his job thru next summer?

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« Reply #1689 on: September 12, 2015, 12:34:01 PM »
What are the chances of Brendan  keeping his job thru next summer Christmas?

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« Reply #1690 on: September 13, 2015, 11:00:34 AM »
Hell of a game between Villa and Leicester.

Right now, if I had to pick a home game to attend in the BPL, it would be at Leicester, they are having a good time.
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« Reply #1691 on: September 13, 2015, 11:03:26 AM »
We could do with a player like Riyad Mahrez.

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« Reply #1692 on: September 14, 2015, 06:54:53 PM »
3 defender at once, broken ankles.

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« Reply #1693 on: September 19, 2015, 10:38:08 AM »
Moses just surprised Man. City with a brilliant shot from about 20 yards. 1-0 West Ham.

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« Reply #1694 on: September 26, 2015, 07:23:11 AM »
City was all over Spurs, then they concede and now is a 180 degree turnaround.
Leicester for the title?
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« Reply #1695 on: October 04, 2015, 08:31:27 PM »
Well, there it is: the Fenway boss call de shot. Prepare for Klopp. He thinks Dortmund and Liverpool have several things in common. Ah not buying Ancelotti at Liverpool, but maybe that's what's selling. Or, maybe he could repeat at Chelsea? Either way, Wenger safe. He could even linger beyond van Gaal's departure. :devil:

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« Reply #1696 on: October 05, 2015, 06:24:41 AM »
Wenger is a Teflon coach.

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« Reply #1697 on: October 08, 2015, 01:32:05 PM »
Welcome Klopp to the Kop!  :applause:

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« Reply #1698 on: October 08, 2015, 03:14:04 PM »
Well, there it is: the Fenway boss call de shot. Prepare for Klopp. He thinks Dortmund and Liverpool have several things in common. Ah not buying Ancelotti at Liverpool, but maybe that's what's selling. Or, maybe he could repeat at Chelsea? Either way, Wenger safe. He could even will linger beyond van Gaal's departure. :devil:


Fixed it for you.  ;D
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« Reply #1699 on: October 09, 2015, 01:53:25 PM »
Well, there it is: the Fenway boss call de shot. Prepare for Klopp. He thinks Dortmund and Liverpool have several things in common. Ah not buying Ancelotti at Liverpool, but maybe that's what's selling. Or, maybe he could repeat at Chelsea? Either way, Wenger safe. He could even will linger beyond van Gaal's departure. :devil:


Fixed it for you.  ;D

Well, we only hope ... since van Gaal announced a retirement date. :)
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« Reply #1700 on: October 09, 2015, 01:57:23 PM »
Klopp's press conference was sober and hilarious at the same time. Says if you want, call me "the normal one". Also told the English press "I heard a lot about you before I came here. Prove to me that they (his sources) are liars." :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

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« Reply #1701 on: October 14, 2015, 08:50:16 AM »

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« Reply #1702 on: October 19, 2015, 01:21:29 PM »
More high scoring matches this term than in recent seasons? Just this weekend City v Bournemouth and Newcastle v Norwich. Not to mention the very same City v the very same Newcastle. Plus Spurs demolished City a few weeks back. Will we witness a goal-record season? 

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« Reply #1703 on: October 24, 2015, 07:50:31 PM »
Chelsea back to losing ways - despite having more possession (55/45) and considerably more passes. In all of that the Hammers only suffered 1 yellow card to the Bridge's cynical 6. Back to the drawing board.

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« Reply #1704 on: October 25, 2015, 03:50:07 AM »
In football you need a little luck. Yesterday was one of those days when the dice would not roll for Chelsea. The Off side call and the ball not fully going over the line Trust me Chelsea will be in the top four by season end.

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« Reply #1705 on: October 25, 2015, 05:42:50 AM »
Me eh know nah, Chelsea seemed suddenly impotent since preseason, and then the d Eva episode somehow gave me a premonition that this would not be a good year for Chelsea.......similar to when d Russian did fire Ray Wilkins.
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« Reply #1706 on: October 25, 2015, 06:55:39 AM »
It is a combinations of many things happening. They are the champions and everybody wants to wear their crown. Unlike last year when they won about  8 straight, all teams are ready for them this time around. They were unlucky to lose some of these games this year. But last year they were lucky to win some of their games too. Some injuries. But every team has that.

 I really want to see if he will last out the season. You know when things appear to be a on a downward trend, JM does walk. Let's see if he is " man enough" to stay the course. But all of this is mere speculation that Russian will fire him. If they can't accept the "downs" in football, then they should not be into it.

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« Reply #1707 on: October 26, 2015, 09:28:12 AM »
It is a combinations of many things happening. They are the champions and everybody wants to wear their crown. Unlike last year when they won about  8 straight, all teams are ready for them this time around. They were unlucky to lose some of these games this year. But last year they were lucky to win some of their games too. Some injuries. But every team has that.

 I really want to see if he will last out the season. You know when things appear to be a on a downward trend, JM does walk. Let's see if he is " man enough" to stay the course. But all of this is mere speculation that Russian will fire him. If they can't accept the "downs" in football, then they should not be into it.

It have things going on behind the scenes.  Jose had positions he wanted upgraded and the board play the ass thinking we could rally with pretty much the same squad.  Jose said it only once in an interview earlier in the season that his report was in since April.  The fact that we were in the market on deadline day is a telling sign of something not being right.  Only time we does be in there on deadline day is when we swooping in to take away a player from landing at another team.  Branna losing his form was a process that began since last season but without a player completely ready to own his or the opposite flank, he is indeed the (and I say this cringing) best choice.  The fact that Hazard cannot yet find his elite level form, Fabregas exposure in defense (not surprising he was never a defender was he?) Matic like a chicken with head cut off trying to cover for Branna, Fabs, and defensive holes left at times by the middle defenders means he too (Matic) has been off.  We have a bunch of forwards allergic to scoring goals and most importantly don't seem to have any more of those locker room glue type leaders that we have been spoiled with over the years.  Imagine we've had Drobga, Lampard, Alex, Ballack, Anelka, Eto'o and more in the last decade.  Any of them would have been able to inspire more confidence than the dregs that remain in the tank now.  Despite all this I hope Jose stays.  The knee-jerk instability of modern day football never helps anything in the long term.  Most does talk shit about Arsenal but despite not winning the league in more than a decade their fans are pretty much assured with Wenger at the helm that they will see CL football and will play attractively.  Jose takes well earned criticisms for his pragmatic approach but as evidenced early last season if things are working he can manage an attractive brand.  It hard to watch the team struggle like this but I eh holding yesterdays loss against them.  So far the Hammers have been a giant slayer and right now we eh no giants until we wake up.

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« Reply #1708 on: October 28, 2015, 03:14:08 PM »
More high scoring matches this term than in recent seasons? Just this weekend City v Bournemouth and Newcastle v Norwich. Not to mention the very same City v the very same Newcastle. Plus Spurs demolished City a few weeks back. Will we witness a goal-record season? 

And again with Spurs' punishment of Bournemouth on Sunday.

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« Reply #1709 on: October 29, 2015, 08:16:08 AM »
Is the Premier League the world’s most exciting? Not this season
By Paul Wilson, The Guardian


Roberto Martínez described Everton’s laboured win against Norwich in midweek as a fantastic cup tie, the sort anyone would want to pay to see, but the relentlessly positive manager was probably in a minority of one with that opinion.

Everton were jeered off at half-time – that’s how fantastic it was – and during a particularly tedious opening half-hour when spectators were practically poking each other with sharp objects in order to stay awake someone ventured the opinion that this was shaping up to be the most tedious Premier League season for some time.

Yes, of course it was a Capital One Cup tie, and as such exempt from general criticism of the Premier League. Managers make so many changes these days, and have so little desire to go all the way in that particular competition, that it is hard to believe any result counts as a shock, whether it is the holders going out at Stoke City, Arsenal coming a cropper at Sheffield Wednesday or Manchester United being beaten by Middlesbrough. If a team have pressing concerns in the league or the Champions League, and Arsenal, Chelsea and United certainly have those at the moment, Capital One obligations usually become an early casualty.

Back to Everton, though, because it was the dullness of the fare in a meeting of two Premier League sides that stood out. It was like the Manchester derby all over again, except no one apart from Gary Neville would care for the Manchester derby all over again. The wider point is that a quarter of the way into the Premier League fixture list, the top flight of English football is still waiting for take-off. Can you name any thrilling games? Great performances? Memorable European nights? It just does not seem to be happening yet, unless we are going to count Sergio Agüero’s five goals in 23 minutes against hapless Newcastle or Arsenal finally getting their European campaign going in the nick of time.

OK, fair enough, Leicester City and Jamie Vardy are a good story and they have been involved in some exciting comebacks to keep their run of results going. But does a team such as Leicester threatening the European positions indicate a healthy level of competition within the Premier League, or is it a sign that everyone else’s standards have fallen? One could almost say the same about Arsenal topping the league last week. Does this finally mean that Arsène Wenger has been on the right track all along and is now poised to make a serious challenge for the title, or are Arsenal where they are because Chelsea and Manchester United have disappointed this season?

Chelsea have been the big no-show at the Premier League party, and while that is arguably no great loss on the entertainment front, the inability of José Mourinho and his squad to keep up the expected standards implies a loss of quality at the top end of the table. Chelsea have traditionally been hard to beat and a model of consistency. With Manchester United in slow decline for the past few years and Manchester City blowing hot and cold, Chelsea have generally represented a benchmark for English quality, the one club you could always rely on to have an interest in the title and put up a respectable performance in Europe.

Take that away and it becomes harder to judge the rest. United, it is fair to say, are not leaping ahead with football of the future under Louis van Gaal. They have slowed down their game, cut out the risks and become more predictable, and so has Wayne Rooney. Anthony Martial, surely signed as an attacking spearhead, has found himself shunted to the wing to allow his captain an extraordinarily generous amount of time to find his form in the middle, while Memphis Depay, not quite as dashing and adventurous a signing as was first billed, has found himself out of the side.

Van Gaal tinkers as if he has one or two more “transitional” seasons before things start to get serious, and at this rate could still be talking of potential rather than achievement when his time at Old Trafford is up.

City, in contrast, know exactly how they want to play but have been unlucky with injuries, as has happened in the past. They have built their system around David Silva and Agüero, and inevitably suffer when both are absent at the same time. Manuel Pellegrini’s side at least have the potential to excite. When everyone is fit they can offer football of the highest quality, but even the most optimistic City supporters are becoming resigned to the fact that Agüero, in particular, rarely completes a full season.

On the injury front, however, no one has it as bad as Liverpool, where even the arrival of Jürgen Klopp has had to take a back seat to the almost daily bulletins of bad news from the treatment room. Klopp might come good in the end – with the limited resources he is working with at present it is too early to tell – though what can be said with certainty is that it will be a while before Liverpool are back in the sort of entertainment business that flourished all too briefly under Brendan Rodgers.
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Liverpool are at Chelsea on Saturday, normally a fixture filled with excitement and possibility, yet Mourinho and Klopp are so short of wins it could easily turn out to be another cautious arm wrestle along the lines of the Manchester derby. If you had been told a couple of years ago that Mourinho and Klopp would soon be facing each other in the Premier League the prospect would have appealed, yet the present reality is more mundane and compromised than might initially have been imagined.

Rather too much of the Premier League is currently like that. West Ham and Crystal Palace supporters might be happy, but taking an overall view this is not shaping up to be a classic season. It has long been said that while the absolute quality might be elsewhere, the Premier League can always be relied upon for entertainment and drama on the pitch. Someone had better have a word, in that case, with most of the title contenders. And Chelsea.

 

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