Premier League Thread

Sunday.

 

Not criticising...just explaining my choice of thread.

 

I think Tom meant that the game is Sunday... don't turn up Saturday

 

I think Mane will be playing come Sunday. Everyone involved i think would prefer he have some time to rest and recover but Shane's injury will force Ronalds hand in this.

Could be a good weekend. If Man City lose and we win we'll only be 2 points behind em....blimey its incredible that we're looking to catch Man City for 2nd place at nearly 2/3rds of the way through the season.

Hopefully Arsenal manage to 'pull an Arsenal' and **** up against Villa on the back of their great result and Man utd can continue to flatter to deceive everyone involved.

A couple more results in our favor and i will actually start noticing my little-used optimism gland get a sweat on.

 

Shouldn't we be wanting a draw.... peg Chelsea back a bit for our title charge?

 

I loooove your optimism. However for now I'm content with CL qualification. I'm sorry to disappoint the optimists amongst you but we wont win the EPL this year. We may set the groundwork that will allow us to be the avant-garde club that defies logic and tradition but that's a long way away and not a precedent that just happens.

We may challenge for the EPL title some day but for now i suggest we focus winning the next game and not losing our edge over various EPL rivals and not get carried away by our moderate success in order to keep winning.

 

Indeed, that's the best result, as always, when both playing teams are your immediate rivals.

 

*sends ST refund letter*

 

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ha ah ... the old "Take my season ticket back - I am not paying a quid to park my car on your ground. Where's that bloody reporter."

 

http://www.whoscored.com/Matches/829862/Preview/
Stat comparison and prediction (2-0 to Saints) on a betting site.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31037565


Wahey! No ITV highlights coming up!

 

Chelsea cancelled prematch conference tomorrow...wonder what that is about. If it is Mourinho sulking again (about Costa this time), then he can expect more fines coming his way.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

 

Be interesting to see when Mane gets back. Allardyce says players always try and sneak in a couple of extra days and Senegal is very close to Guinea (where the tournament is being held). At the very end, it says Southampton deny they were part of a group trying to share a private plane.....of course they aren't....Mane would have his own plane

 

Disagree with their team. Think we should play Gardos as hasn't put a foot wrong.

 

Except for in the last game where Koeman dragged him off at half-time because he "wasn't concentrating"

 

Gardos hasn't been as good as some people have made out. He hasn't had much game time, so harsh to criticize, but he certainly hasn't been as good as some say.

 

Perhaps Senegal are giving the bird to Big Sam and Sakho ... can't blame them really.

 

Well, he has put the odd foot wrong, it's true. But I think he's a good defender at heart who is still improving. Not good enough yet to be the obvious number one or two in this season's defence pairing. Any other season and that might not be so.