Spurs…

Again, a laughing stock. Interestingly…
2 – The number of clubs out of the 92 in the Football League yet to win a league game this season. Grimsby are one. The other reside in North London.

In case you didn’t know…

You can watch all the weekend highlights on the Times Sport page. See below:
PREMIER LEAGUE HIGHLIGHTS
All the best bits from the weekend, including Luis Antonio Valencia’s stunning goal from 25 yards for Wigan, the two strikes that ruined Arsene Wenger’s weekend – one’s a beauty – and another show-stealing performance from Fernando Torres.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article2236741.ece

Weekend Results and Scorers in Full

Sunday, 28 September 2008

Portsmouth
2-0
(HT 1-0)
Tottenham

Defoe (pen) 34
Crouch 68

Bookings:
Diarra 38
Belhadj 57
Crouch 80
Hughes 84

Bookings:
Woodgate 26
O’Hara 32
Lennon 90+4

Sent off:
Diarra 88

Wigan
2-1
(HT 2-1)
Man City

Valencia 16
Zaki (pen) 34

Kompany 22

Bookings:
Valencia 26
Brown 57
Melchiot 72

Bookings:
Kompany 33
Robinho 33
Richards 70

Saturday, 27 September 2008

Arsenal
1-2
(HT 0-0)
Hull

McShane o.g. 51

Geovanni 62
Cousin 66

Bookings:
Sagna 76
Gallas 90+1

Bookings:
Ashbee 45

Aston Villa
2-1
(HT 2-1)
Sunderland

Young 18
Carew 33

Cisse 10

Bookings:
Petrov 86

Bookings:
McCartney 90+5

Everton
0-2
(HT 0-0)
Liverpool

Torres 59
Torres 62

Bookings:
Fellaini 9
Yakubu 48
Neville 64

Bookings:
Alonso [...]

Get Ahead of the Game

My Ahead of the Game Email just dropped from Times Online, reminding me how excellent it is.
Here is the main body, in full – you can sign up on the Times Website…
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Cricket County Championship – D Day.

Today is the last of the Cricket County Championship. Notts, Somerset, Durham – and to a lesser extent Hampshire – can all still win the title.
The games will be concluded on Saturday – click here to follow all the action on the BBC live text.

Lots of yummy kids…

Arsenal’s, obviously.
They beat Sheffield Utd 6-0 at Highbury last night, with Carlos Vela netting a hat trick, Nicolas Bendtner two, and Jack Wilshire finishing the rout. The Telegraph’s take on the youthfullness:
If Arsenal’s players had worn white nappies and carried red dummies, few would have been surprised. Their combined age was just 209 – 90 [...]

Hull vs Man Utd, Season Match Bet and laughing at Spurs

After gloriously, temporarily sitting in a Champions League spot, Hull are now revelling in 7th place. Man Utd sit in a lowly 15th, with 5 points from 4 matches. Hull, 10,000-1, are 8 places ahead of Man Utd, who were 6-4.
Also, brilliantly, Spurs are now two points adrift at the bottom of the table. In [...]

The weekend in 60 seconds

Stoke and Hull continued to prove that the newly promoted sides are no pushovers – in the process raising concerns for Liverpool and Everton, who only took a point each. They play each other next weekend. Man Utd and Chelsea dominated a half each and a draw was a fair result. Stuart Downing missed a [...]

Premiership Scores and Scorers

The weekend’s results in full:

Sunday, 21 September 2008

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

Kalou 80

Park 18

Bookings:
Obi 67

Bookings:
Scholes 35
Ferdinand 41
Neville 58
Berbatov 59
Rooney 79
Evra 86
Ronaldo 90+2

Hull
2-2
(HT 1-0)
Everton

Turner 18
Neville o.g. 50

Cahill 73
Osman 78

Bookings:
Fellaini 86

Man City
6-0
(HT 2-0)
Portsmouth

Jo 13
Dunne 20
Robinho 57
Wright-Phillips 68
Evans 78
Gelson 83

Bookings:
Diarra 90

Tottenham
0-0
(HT 0-0)
Wigan

Bookings:
Corluka 43
O’Hara 51

Bookings:
Boyce 29
Palacios 63

West Brom
1-2
(HT 1-2)
Aston Villa

Morrison 34

Carew 27
Agbonlahor 29

Bookings:
Morrison 36
Robinson 38
Borja Valero 52

Bookings:
Young 68
Carew 75
Young [...]

Champions League, Part 2

Man Utd 0-0 Villareal
Dynamo Kiev 1-1 Arsenal
Celtic 0-0 Aab Aalborg

Goals and excitement in the Tuesday games – torpor and boredom in the Wednesday ones. The highlight fro mthe games s above was Ronaldo making his long awaited and desperately needed comeback for Utd – they have lacked penetration and imagination in his absence, and immediately [...]