2010/2011 Premier League Thread

[d_phaneuf]

Originally Posted by NBC

Magpies 6 Villa 0.

What a strange start to the season.

24 games in a row without losing at home, and 19 wins in that span

I know it was in the championship but that is a great record

[Winsor_Pilates]

Any Villa fans here? Must be a sad day, what a shocking result.

[KevanGuy]

Wow, what an awesome early birthday present from the Toon. Hopefully the start to another perfect home record!

[chris_yk]

I wanna throw up.. jesus Villa

[I wanna be like Miikka]

Originally Posted by KevanGuy

Wow, what an awesome early birthday present from the Toon. Hopefully the start to another perfect home record!

Haha great game by Newcastle. A bit of a slowish start but once Barton hammered that shot the Magpies took off. The atmosphere and SJP looked awesome!

[Locke]

Originally Posted by KevanGuy

Wow, what an awesome early birthday present from the Toon. Hopefully the start to another perfect home record!

That was a great result, and Andy Carroll looks like the real thing, hes quality.

Of course, the media still cant get off Joey Barton's back. Unreal.

Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton has rejected accusations that he celebrated his goal in Sunday's 6-0 victory over Aston Villa with a Nazi-style salute.

Barton opened the scoring for the Magpies with an excellent effort at St James' Park and after celebrating with his team-mates raised his right hand to his lip and his left arm straight up in the air.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...ngland&cc=5901

Yes. Joey Barton did a Nazi salute. Of course he did. Because hes a Nazi. Or are you just really, really, reaching?

[NBC]

Anyone remember this?



At White Hart Lane of all places. What was Bosnich thinking?

[Locke]

Some fun at Spurs' expense:

Young Boys 2-0 Tottenham... Perhaps Spurs could play some Younger Boys next time?

Spurs giving Young Boys a right pounding following half-time breather

Young Boys couldn't keep it up - Pavlyuchenko scores a blinder: 3-2

Well, as the man said, Young Boys rarely keep clean sheets

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns...global&cc=5901

[rubecube]

Joe Hart having another great game today. Shame that England didn't have a keeper of his caliber on their World Cup squad...

[SeeBass]

I dont remember this many blowouts in a whole season yet alone this early.

Is th egap in the EPL getting too big?

I wouldnt expect this result from Liverpool vs Man City

[Locke]

Liverpool didnt come to play. That was a pretty sorry performance. Torres was horrible.

In the end though, City are now, what? a £300M team?

[Addick]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

I dont remember this many blowouts in a whole season yet alone this early.

Is th egap in the EPL getting too big?

Considering that two of the three recently promoted clubs won two of these early blowouts, one might say the opposite. At the same time, Chelsea scoring 27 in their last four matches could be worrying. However, since I'll be at Stamford Bridge this Saturday it will be 27 in their last five.

[SeeBass]

^^Good point.

and I'm jealous.

[NBC]

What a great result today for Wigan. After getting hammered 6-0 and 4-0 at home, you go away to Spurs and collect all 3 points.

I wonder what the excuses will be this time round?

[d_phaneuf]

Smalling has been very good for United today in the 15 minutes he has been, with Rio permanently injured I think Smalling could get a few more starts this season

looks like a solid prospect

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by NBC

What a great result today for Wigan. After getting hammered 6-0 and 4-0 at home, you go away to Spurs and collect all 3 points.

I wonder what the excuses will be this time round?

No excuses. They deserved the win. Outside of the first game against Man City, Spurs have been pretty unimpressive so far.

[d_phaneuf]

ya they didn't deserve to win today, based on the run of play they didn't really deserve to lose either

but Wigan parked the bus and Spurs couldn't get through

[Locke]

Originally Posted by diane_phaneuf

ya they didn't deserve to win today, based on the run of play they didn't really deserve to lose either

but Wigan parked the bus and Spurs couldn't get through

While true, I wouldn't say that Spurs didn't deserve to lose, Wigan had several beautiful chances that they squandered.

And yeah, they parked the bus, but if you're a team whose entire goal is to avoid relegation and you've got a 1-0 lead at WHL you park the team coach in front of the net. Astute moves from the Wigan coach as well.

As I've related to rubecube, this Spurs team is right back to midtable without an elite striker and some support for King. King had a spectacular game today, take him out and Spurs lose embarrassingly.

Not to mention, based on what I've heard I don't know how heavily they can keep leaning on Defoe.

It was an entertaining match though. Great fun to watch.

[d_phaneuf]

with the way they dominated Man City (outside of Joe Hart) I wouldn't say they are back to mid table, the problems defensively came when they started pushing 2 of the defenders up higher (especially Bale) and Wigan got chances

I have no problem with Wigan parking the bus, I was just pointing out that they did and it couldn't be broken down it was a problem Spurs had last season as well with Wolves and Hull

They need to bring in a striker if they want to keep up with the other top 5 or 6 teams, there are no doubts about that

I don't see any problems at CB though with Gallas brought in, King/Dawson/Gallas/Bassong is a good foursome. Dawson having a bad game at young boys doesn't erase the great season he had last year, I didn't think any of the defenders were bad today except BAE

[chris_yk]

Big win today over Man City, won't be able to see it until 5 when it's on repeat but nice to see a 90th minute penalty given our way for once!