Browsing all posts from August, 2008.
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Marcus Trescothick

I watched Marcus Trescothick smash a fantasic 50 from 20something balls yesterday for Somerset against Worcestershire. Such clean hitting, all round the wicket, with the minimum of bodily economy. Its such a shame he’s completely mental, because he is one of the best one day openers in the world.
This on the back of a magnificent [...]

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Champions League Qualifiers

Liverpool (just) and Arsenal (comfortably) qualified for the Champions league proper last night. Liverpool scraped a 1-0 AET victory thanks to a 118th minute Dirk Kuyt goal, while Arsenal coasted through on the back of a possible ‘coming of age’ performance from Theo Walcott.
Newcastle and Everton remain the only clubs to suffer the humiliation of [...]

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Hull

From the excellent Football 365:
Hull City
Last season it was possible to retain Premier League status with 36 points. The year before, 38 was the magic number. So let’s say that 37 ought to do it this year. In which case, Hull already possess 11% of the points required to stay up after playing 5% of [...]

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The Weekend’s Results and Scorers in Full

Monday, 25 August 2008

Portsmouth
0-1
(HT 0-1)
Man Utd

Fletcher 32

Bookings:
Diop 18
Defoe 80

Bookings:
Brown 44
Fletcher 90+3

Sunday, 24 August 2008

Man City
3-0
(HT 0-0)
West Ham

Sturridge 65
Elano 70
Elano 76

Bookings:
Behrami 23
Noble 33

Sent off:
Noble 38

Wigan
0-1
(HT 0-1)
Chelsea

Deco 4

Bookings:
Cattermole 49

Bookings:
Terry 14
Carvalho 74

Saturday, 23 August 2008

Blackburn
1-1
(HT 1-1)
Hull

Roberts 38

Garcia 40

Bookings:
Ashbee 43

Fulham
1-0
(HT 1-0)
Arsenal

Hangeland 21

Bookings:
Murphy 71
Teymourian 88

Liverpool
2-1
(HT 0-0)
Middlesbrough

Pogatetz o.g. 86
Gerrard 90+4

Mido 70

Bookings:
Arbeloa 27
Keane 78

Bookings:
Mido 79

Newcastle
1-0
(HT 0-0)
Bolton

Owen 71

Bookings:
Taylor 62

Bookings:
O’Brien 28
McCann 39

Stoke
3-2
(HT 1-0)
Aston [...]

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The Chelsea Juggernaut

Chelsea are just the wrong side of evens for the Premiership titles. Two games, two wins. Five for, none conceded. Rock solid defence and keeper, Deco an artiste in centre mid, Lampard and Ballack either side of him, two world class strikers, not to mention Essien, Joe Cole, and the possible acquisition of Robinho – [...]

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England v South Africa, August 26th, 14.30, Trent Bridge

Prior, Bell, Shah, Pietersen (c), Flintoff, Bopara, Wright, Patel, Broad, S Harmison, Anderson
Was the team for the last one-dayer, and is likely to be so for tomorrow after the excellent performance in the first. Can England kick on and take a 2-0 lead? The team looks balanced, with a very strgon batting line up (Broad [...]

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Fantasy Football – Massively Average…

Bad week. 40 points. No clean sheet for Arsenal or points for my captain Adebayor, Bentley disappointing, Elmander forced off injured… Lescott, Young and Yakubu my only real points scorers. Just to revisit my ‘tips’:
Deco 9.1m – Looked good last week, plus Ballack is out so he’s almost certain to start
Bentley 8.0m – Spurs will [...]

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Fantasy Premier League – The First Post of Many…

Fantasy Premier League is amazing. Its by far and away the best Fantasy Football game I’ve played. If you haven’t already, get a team in now.
In the first week I got a respectable 58 points. Just the one change this week, Ballack out for Bentley. I was considering Deco but irritatingly he’s gone up by [...]

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England

Dear oh dear. So much for a brave new world under Capello. England were as boring and disappointing as ever last night, completely underwhelming and totally underperforming. Rooney dropped off too much, Defoe looked short of international class, Gerrard didn’t play like he does for Liverpool, David James raised the same old questions, etc etc [...]

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Twenty Twenty Game Cancelled

England’s Twenty Twenty Game against South Africa tomorrow has been cancelled .
Good use of my first non-football post.

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