Where Did They Go?

We are currently at a time in football where our national game has never been so illustrious. Gone from the game are the characters that drew us to the game in the first place and replaced by – not all but many – prima donors.

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Chelsea FC: Frank-ly too old?

There’s growing evidence that Premier League teams are starting to introduce their youth players. Manchester United started with Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley, Arsenal had Emmanuel Frimpong, Aston Villa called-up Barry Bannan and Liverpool still play Jamie Carragher.

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Unstoppable Bale impossible to contain

The only way teams can stop Gareth Bale is to kick him out of the game, is the opinion of Tottenham midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart.

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Arsenal and Brighton and Hove Albion are more similar than I previously thought

Arsenal and Brighton and Hove Albion are more similar than I previously thought. Arsenal, renowned for being the best passing team in the land, are as pleasing on the eye (on their day) as Barcelona who are without a doubt one of the best teams of modern times.

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Mancini Thrown To The Wolves

So Manchester City continue their revisiting of teams they have played in the Cup Final throughout their history.

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Spurs must go all out to get Leandro in January

At last, the prayers were answered before the close of the transfer window this summer, as Spurs finally bought in a striker of exceptional quality. Emmanuel Adebayor arrived on a season long-loan towards the end of August and the acquisition of the Togolese forward couldn't have come soon enough.

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City To Have A Backroom Disco??

A few years ago Manchester City, with Robinho, Elano and Geovanni played Samba football. Before that it in 1999 it was just classic rock as City tried to survive. Nowadays there is a mixture, Spanish Flamenco, Argentine Tango and even a little Italian Opera at times. If reports in the papers and online are true you can add Disco to that also, in the backroom at least.

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City 2 Everton 0 - My Verdict

The away side started the brighter of the two teams with some nice build-up play from the likes of Leighton Baines and Jack Rodwell. It wasn’t long before City took control, with the Toffee’s continuing tactic of not playing a recognised striker hindering any chance of a real threat on goal.

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Lucky lucky Liverpool

Surprisingly for me, I don’t have that much to say this week. I guess the old thing about “You only sing when you’re winning” doesn’t really apply to me. I only pipe up when Liverpool are playing rubbish or when there’s been some enormous upset. So, you may ask, you got three points yesterday and got through to the next round of the Carling Cup so why are you bothering us?

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Balotelli Shoots Down Everton

Manchester City took all three points from their match today placing them, at least for the moment, in the top spot, with United playing later today. Manchester City have not won a game against Everton at home since New Years Day 2007 and had only managed a total of three points, home and away since that day to this. Now it's six!

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Roy Keane: Two Sides Of A Genius - Part 2/2

Carrying on from my previous article which looked at the unsavoury side of Roy Keane, it's worth remembering constrating his attitude towards his on-pitch violence with his view of one of the most inspiring and jaw-dropping performances by any football player, anywhere, at any time.

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Roy Keane: Two Sides Of A Genius - Part 1/2

By any stretch of the imagination Roy Keane is an extraordinary sports personality and an unusual human being. For a football player that was not blessed with natural footballing skills he became the most effective player of his generation and became a monumental figure in the midfield of the park for both club and country.

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Spurs take full advantage of sloppy Wigan

Tottenham made hard work of their 2-1 win away to Wigan on Saturday as the hosts saw Steve Gahouri reduced to ten-men in the second half.

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Which manager to replace Redknapp next summer?

It is a well known fact that Harry Redknapp is the odds-on favourite to take over as England manager next summer. Current incumbent Fabio Capello will be stepping down following Euro 2012, should they make it to Ukraine and Poland.

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League Table Prediction (10-1) Part 2 of 2.

Now that the transfer window has slammed shut now until January I have had time to analyse the teams as they stand right now. With that in mind here is part two of my predictions for the final Premiership Table.

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