We don’t claim to provide in depth match reports or results – you can find that somewhere like the BBC, who have teams of reporters. We provide unique comment and content, a more abstract look at the footballing world.
It was a good weekend for Manchester United, who chose the perfect time to come into form and send Chelsea, tail between their legs, back down to London. That result was also a blow to Rafa Benitez, who desperately needed results to go his way to vindicate his outburst – they didn’t. Arsenal and Villa [...]
From the Christmas period can be found here and here respectively.
Tonight sees Aston Villa take on Hull in the last of the Christmas games. There are no more Premiership games until the 10th January because of the FA Cup First round.
Without Man Utd, newly crowned World Champions, and Wigan, with never a trophy in their history, and Chelsea playing Everton tomorrow, let’s have a quick round up of the rest of the results. Saturday afternoon saw four 3 o’clock kick offs – the first looking decided was Bolton-Portsmouth, with the home side going two up [...]
As we always say, in-depth reports and stats are better found elsewhere – we usually recommend the BBC, but after the Strictly Come Dancing fiasco they can no longer be trusted… so try Times Online instead. Our mini-round up starts with the Big Four – a couple of weeks after they all failed to score, [...]
Spurs beat West Ham 2-0 at Upton Park last night thanks to goals from Ledley King and a fine strike from Jamie O’Hara. It could have been so different – the much maligned Heurelho Gomes made a great double save in the dying seconds with the score 1-0, before Spurs swept up the other end [...]
Arsenal produced a thrilling comeback to beat Chelsea 2-1 at Stamford Bridge in the second live game of the day – controversy here as Robin Van Persie, in bringing Arsenal level, was a clear yard offside – Scolari was fuming afterward, particularly as Kalou was denied an opportunity early on when he was, in fact, [...]
A wholly uninspiring set of results yesterday. You can can get full match reports and details of the tedium elsewhere, so we’ll focus on a more abstract element of each game. Stoke 1 Hull 1 A debatable 73rd minute penalty, won and converted by Ricardo Fuller, cancelled out Marlon King’s excellent strike on the stroke [...]
Thanks to Sky there was a double header this afternoon. First up: Spurs won this 1-0, thanks to a Roman Pavyluchenko goal set up by the excellent Aaron Lennon, a clear MOM. The home side dominated throughout but were never safe with a one goal margin – Blackburn always seemed to be in it despite [...]
