Football Focus

[Sandperson]

Arsenal 2 West Brom 1

Bolton 1 Stoke City 0

Everton 1 Blackburn 0

Hull City 0 Fulham 1

Middlesbrough 0 Tottenham 2

Sunderland 0 Liverpool 2

West Ham 0 Wigan Athletic 0

Aston Villa 1 Man City 1

Chelsea 2 Portsmouth 0

Man Utd 2 Newcastle 1

[Keef]

Everyone seems to think Liverpool will win comfortably too. I obviously hope we do, but I think we're going to get a tough match! Diouf will probably blind us all with spit and score a hatrick!

[Ladygooner]

Two hours to go - the pressure is on! Lets hope West Brom are not too good for us today!

[Jah Lush]

With all due respect Ladygooner:- Come on the Baggies! And, Come on you Spurs!

[Keef]

Exciting stuff, have missed getting up on Saturdays, having a late breakfast (pancakes today), and settling in for footy focus!

[Annasfield]

And so it begins...... :)-D (It's been a long Summer)

[Keef]

Lawro not holding out too much hope for the reds, thinks we're still 3 players short. We definitely need someone down the left, but if Keane and Torres hit it off, we could be dangerous!

[Annasfield]

So the Gooners are currently top of the league. How long will it last.....

[bon3yard]

Great Start for Spurs, even better than last season...top of the league...no, hang on!

[????]

Seriously I really think Spurs are going to break into the top 4 this season....................BWAHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAA.

Hammers top at the end of September.....

[SimonM]

Immensely satisfying to tonk the Poor Billionaire's Chelsea (i.e. QPR) 3-0 today.....but it's a long time to May!

[Annasfield]

Oh my, Chelsea are going to take some beating this season. Cole and Deco both had a fanastic game.

Didn't realise Tevez was out today, doesn't look like that it's causing Utd too many problems at the moment. :(

[Annasfield]

Annasfield Wrote:

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> Arsenal 2 West Brom 1

> Bolton 2 Stoke City 0

> Everton 1 Blackburn 0

> Hull City 0 Fulham 1

> Middlesbrough 1 Tottenham 3

> Sunderland Liverpool - You know I don't answer

> that one ;-)

> West Ham 1 Wigan Athletic 0

> Aston Villa 2 Man City 2

> Chelsea 2 Portsmouth 2

> Man Utd 2 Newcastle 0*

>

> *Go on Keegan, prove me wrong (please)

Man I hate being wrong. >:D<

[Keef]

7 minute hatrick for the Villa any who's name I can't remember. Does that beat Fowler's old record against Arsenal?

[Annasfield]

Agbonlahor Keef?

God's was quicker.

[Keef]

Good stuff, just saw the news on my phone whilst in the car, and couldn't remember how quick God's was. 4 mins 33 seconds, can't see that record being beaten anytime soon actually.

Still, Agbonlahor done pretty well!

Whilst we're talking about it,Arsenal fans look away now!!!

Speaking of Arsenal fans, is Atila coming back soon? I know he lost his rag a bit a few times, but generally I found his passion quite impressive!

[Sandperson]

Anna, we still have a fiar few to come back into the team. Don't worry about us too much just yet.

[ratty]

I am no longer into football!

[mockney piers]

Good start to the season. Congrats to Hull, commiserations to Stoke, hats off to Newcastle, who frankly didn't look like Newcastle, and well done Sunderland who were a bit unlucky not to grind a draw out of that, Richardson looking good for them (is he on loan or signed?).

If Villa can keep consistency I think they've the makings of a very good side, building on good improvement last year.

Deco looking like signing of the season already, but poor old Pompey, unsettled by rumours of a Redknapp return to Upton Park perhaps? Not sure how I feel about that. He's a great chap and all, but he ran out of ideas at West Ham and don't think a return would suit anyone.

And lastly I loved being proved wrong re Wigan.

[Annasfield]

Sandperson Wrote:

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> Anna, we still have a fiar few to come back into

> the team. Don't worry about us too much just yet.

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I'm not - I just love it when you lose (or draw. ;-)

[Sandperson]

Me too. It lulls you bin dippers into a false sense of security...:))

[Keef]

Glad we got the 3 points this weekend, but we didn't look great. That said, I predicted 1-1, didn't think Sunderland would be a push over, I think they'll do better this year than last.

Early early days, but Chelsea looked pretty scary, and Deco had a great game!

[Annasfield]

So who's going to be the new England captain? I'm a thug JT or I forgot to go for my drugs test because I took too many disco biscuits the night before Rio Ferdinand. :-S

Going to the game on Wednesday night - will be interesting to see how we perform following our absence from the Euros.

[Keef]

I would hope that Stevie G has a chance, but I think you're right that it may come down to one of those 2, in which case I would definitely go for Ferdinand.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm no fan of Terry or Ferdinand but if I was the sort of lazy-ass English player who needed a captain to motivate me then I would probably go for Terry - he does seem more visibly "bothered" by below-par performances.

(Mind you so does Gallas @ Arsenal and he just seems to annoy everyone else...)

Not sure about keepers being Captain, but James' columns in The Observer every fortnight show a depth missing from most other footballers