Well, the majority of games went as expected for me, Villa doing slightly better than I thought, but lets not dwell on mid-table mediocrity! Surprise results were Wigan winning at W.Brom, scrapping for their lives already (I wonder whether Martinez regrets leaving Swansea now!) and Norwich putting 4 past Toon, highlighting the fragility of the geordies squad. Pardew moaning about injuries already, but Ba continued his run with another brace. Anyway, as expected they're gone now, and the top six coming up to Christmas is as predicted...though not necessarily in that order! As mentioned in the pub, Caulker returned to the starting line up for the Swans, didn't make any headlines, but shows how much faith Rogers has in him. Caulker was in the side that kept a few clean sheets at the beginning, he got injured, and they started shipping a few, he returns today...clean sheet...coincidence!
With everyone winning around us the pressure is on to win tomorrow. Then onto Monday when chelsea can cause an upset and blow the title race open!
Now now Ens! he has the decency to turn up here after such a bombshell, you have to give him that. Good evening to you Luke, lets not get carried away here, I cannot believe your luck, if you could choose a fixture to ease the pain it would be Wolves at home, a tricky away tie would have been different, and I think you know that too. I predicted this change in fortunes way back on old 606...I shall now enjoy a short period of smugness.
Hull fan in peace. Happy Norwich managed to pull off that win against Newcastle. Will be watching Spurs hopefully hammer Stoke tomorrow
Look at it this way Ens, before, United were a big step up from us, they are now our immediate rival, I still have to pinch myself too! but there it is, we now have so much more reason to let him ave it, and he does take it as good as he dishes it out. ...Good thing?
It must be soul-destroying for the Gooners and Mickey Mousers to both win today, and to have to look up at us in the table still, and us with two games in hand. Absolutely soul-destroying.
First they roll over for Chelsea, now MUPLC - good to see Wolves replace us as the team guaranteed to donate three points to a club that's going through a rough patch...
Hm. Not sure that I would have wanted us to play United the very next game after they had been dumped out of the group stage of the CL. I think United would have given any team a kicking, tbh.
That annoyed me, Croydon. It looked like Wolves' defence were just watching Man Utd play and admiring it, at times. McCarthy must've been furious.
We will do very well to finish above either of Arsenal or Chelsea, to finish above both would be outstanding and the first time since 1993. Even then Arsenal had the last laugh on us when that horrible team of theirs beat us in the FA Cup semi-final and they won one of the worst FA Cup finals ever. They also won the Lge cup for extra annoyance factor!
In the New Year, RvP will probably pick up an injury, and the Gooners will plummet down the league table.
That we've had our worst start to a season for over 50 years, whilst Spurs have had their best start in 50 years - and we're only 2 pts behind you, speaks volumes
Taking a quick glance at the table, we've scored 2 less goals than you having playing 2 games less. That's despite RvP being in the form of his life atm. Regardless, Spurs lack a world class striker - Adebayor could be that man, as could Defoe if both were more consistent.
Realy? I'm sure we scored 2 and Spurs got 1, which means we deserved to win. Even Chris Foy agrees with me (I just saw him chatting to Tony Pulis in his car).
