Premier League week 5 - 18/19 September 2010

COTR wrote:Carragher has been 'complacent' for about 3 seasons now the sod

Luis wrote:
Aston Villa

Lucky to beat Everton, unlucky to lose late on to Stoke, now an unispiring send off for Kevin MacDonald with a 1-1 draw with Bolton. Houllier has a big task on his hands, that's for sure. Villa just don't seem to have any cutting edge this season. Albrighton will become a very good player but he must be getting a bit tired out. Carew isn't the physical threat he used to be and Agbonlahor doesn't even look as hungry at the moment. Villa's biggest problem is their lack of options from the bench. At the weekend their bench contained:

* 22 Guzan,
* 21 Clark,
* 24 Cuellar,
* 20 Reo-Coker,
* 25 Bannan,
* 10 Carew,
* 18 Heskey

Hardly anything to scare opposition defenders.

Glennjo Shelvey wrote:Glynn's winner and loser of the weekend

Winner - Dimitar Berbatov

The languid Bulgarian has proved his doubters wrong. During a game of two halves Liverpool were at sixes and sevens, and at the end of the day Liverpool supremo Hodgeson will be as sick as a parrot.

You can’t win the title in August but you can certainly lose it and it was end to end stuff from the start as United set out their stall against a Liverpool side looking to gatecrash the Top 4.

There are no easy games at this level and despite being 2 goals up Ferguson was left red-faced when a Gerrard brace made it all to play for, Evans was lucky not to be send off, and Scholes was booked for a typical forwards tackle, but Berbatov proved that he hasn't just got good feet for a big man by netting the crucial late winner.

Loser - Everton

On paper Everton are too good to go down but football is a funny old game and although Moyes' men tend to finish the season strongly they can't afford to drop many more points at home. They're fighting for their lives and need to take each day as it comes. The Toffees have an honest team who will run their socks off but goals change games and without a regular 20-goal-a-season striker they may struggle. A must-win game, six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Allez les rouges wrote:Luis's footballing and literary masterclass of the week

"had United on the ropes and just needed one more killer knockout blow"

Luis wrote:But before anything else, he needs to form a search party to find Maxi Rodriguez.

stinger wrote:I feel like idiot "not getting it", so no problem feeling even more idiotic - could someone explain me what is so brilliant in Glenn's paragraph regarding Everton?

Also, before Everton fans can complain about not having 20-goals per season striker, they would complain about unability to keep clean sheets (we were tough team to break down in the past) and also not creating so many chances (except game against Aston Villa).

fcb wrote:

stinger wrote:I feel like idiot "not getting it", so no problem feeling even more idiotic - could someone explain me what is so brilliant in Glenn's paragraph regarding Everton?

Also, before Everton fans can complain about not having 20-goals per season striker, they would complain about unability to keep clean sheets (we were tough team to break down in the past) and also not creating so many chances (except game against Aston Villa).

Basically he's strung together as many football cliches as possible, and the fact that it takes some noticing illustrates just how pervasive cliches have become in football journalism.

And it's not just Everton, his Berbatov section too.

debaser wrote:Ach, don't be too mean..

Luis wrote:But before anything else, he needs to form a search party to find Maxi Rodriguez.

was a pretty good punchline to the Liverpool section

fcb wrote:

stinger wrote:I feel like idiot "not getting it", so no problem feeling even more idiotic - could someone explain me what is so brilliant in Glenn's paragraph regarding Everton?

Also, before Everton fans can complain about not having 20-goals per season striker, they would complain about unability to keep clean sheets (we were tough team to break down in the past) and also not creating so many chances (except game against Aston Villa).

Basically he's strung together as many football cliches as possible, and the fact that it takes some noticing illustrates just how pervasive cliches have become in football journalism.

And it's not just Everton, his Berbatov section too.

Alberto wrote:WTF is a "get to the second ball" as them English dumb ass commentators say?

Is that when their shite football is lumped forwards 60 metres in the air, they run like fags after it, and they pray to catch the scraps and nick in a goal?

"get to the second ball".

Alberto wrote:WTF is a "get to the second ball" as them English dumb ass commentators say?

Is that when their shite football is lumped forwards 60 metres in the air, they run like fags after it, and they pray to catch the scraps and nick in a goal?

"get to the second ball".

Hlebagone wrote:Stoke have never managed more than 50% possession in a Premier League match.

Ade wrote:

Glennjo Shelvey wrote:if the Mancs don't return after this result then they really are all dead.

What time does Toy Story 3 finish at?
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Classy stuff from Berba. O'Shea should have been sent off though, thus wouldn't have provided the cross for Berbatov's 3rd goal and this win the match

We should have really pushed on for that winner when United were on the ropes IMO though.

Our defence bar Reina is very poor and that's very disheartening compared to a few years back.

Oh well.

Deluded F*ck wrote:Translation: Batman watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pearl Harbour & 50 First Dates back to back, followed by 16 Blocks, King Kong & the Spiderman trilogy