For the first time for nearly a century all of the current big 4 – Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd, and Arsenal – failed to score on the same weekend. Arsenal were the only side to lose, 3-0 to Man City, to further compound their misery and disarray. This is the most testing period Arsene Wenger [...]
Everton won – thanks to our good friends at http://sportsas.blogspot.com for that one. The rest of the weekend results are below; the highlights a superb victory for Spurs despite constant battery from Liverpool, an entertaining but concerning 4-3 win for Man Utd at home to Hull, Arsenal crumbling under an aerial battery from Stoke (both [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
Sunday, 14 September 2008 Stoke 2-3 (HT 0-1) Everton Olofinjana 55 Jagielka o.g. 63 Yakubu 41 Anichebe 51 Cahill 77 Bookings: Fuller 64 Faye 68 Bookings: Arteta 82 Saturday, 13 September 2008 Blackburn 0-4 (HT 0-2) Arsenal Van Persie 8 Adebayor 45+1 Adebayor (pen) 81 Adebayor 90+2 Bookings: Warnock 80 Bookings: Denilson 60 Fulham 2-1 [...]
Derby finally won a game on Saturday, beating Sheffield Utd 2-1 to record their first victory since a 1-0 triumph over Newcastle at home on 17 September 2007. They now proudly hold the football league record for the longest winless streak. But – who would back against them kicking on now? I’d suggest a cheeky [...]
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 [...]
