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Chelsea 2 – 0 Arsenal :  You could apply the same comments  to both teams as you could two years ago.  Arsenal can’t shoot or save and what Does Michal Ballack do apart from foul other players?

Hull 2-1 Man City:  To loose to the Championship team that is Hull should be an embarressment to a sqaud with such ambitions and money.  Mancini has a lot to prove now.

Man Utd 5-0 Portsmouth:  That Portsmouth are to be relegated is now a given.  And the title will be given to Man Utd if teams can’t start to play against them properly.  3 own goals are bad enough, game over.  For the league to have a squad that relies on the clogging ability of  Neville, Brown and Fletcher and that this team can be top shows how bad the rest are.  If not the players then the managers.

So a transfer deadline passes with barely a whiff of interest.  Apart from Robbie, I used to support that club as a kid, Keane heading off to Celtic.  His journey north has always been expected but probably not at the very end of a January Transfer window.  One suspects a ploy to generate interest in the move of a player very much on the wane right now.  His move to Liverpool and back to Spurs and his subsequent lack of return to form is well know.  However what is less commented on is the Transfer polcies of Spurs and Harry Rednapp.  That ‘Arry was always going to plunder Defoe from Portsmouth was a given, but much of the rest of his transfers are questionable to say the least.   Wilson Palacios is the pick of the bunch who has been good, sometimes supurb as the motor in midfield.  But Crouch flatters to decieve and what on earth is Younis Kabul doing back in the squad?  He might have looked good at Portsmouth but I suspect he will be a bit dodgy, again.  Looking at it you can’t see much rhyme or reason to the signings, Eidur Gudjohnsen has been signed why exactly?

Well new season and the only real surprise is that Spurs managed to stay top.  If that Lennon fella keeps playing like that he should get a shout at a place in the England squad.

Liverpool are uninspiring to say the least.  They really only beat Bolton because they were a man up.

Same for Man Utd who were lucky to win (aren’t they always?) and Arsene Wenger was stupidly sent to the stands, where he had to stand in front of the ManU supporters, who obviously extended him a warm and friendly welcome.

Stoke I suppose are the other surprise, playing well one week and getting tonked the next.  If they can level out thier form and play reasonably consistently they will stay up for sure as they seem to have much more about them than the other so called “lesser” teams.

Please can Hull get relegated.  Awful football.