Football Focus

[Ladygooner]

Arsenal 2 Everton 0 (even with a long injury list and Fabregas with a broken nose!)

Aston Villa 1 Portsmouth 1

Bolton 0 Blackburn 0

Fulham 2 Sunderland 1

Liverpool 2 Wigan Athletic 1

Man Utd 3 West Brom 0

Middlesbrough 2 Chelsea 0

Hull City 2 West Ham 1

Stoke City 2 Tottenham 1

Newcastle 2 Man City 2

[SimonM]

Arsenal 3 Everton 1

Aston Villa 2 Portsmouth 1

Bolton 1 Blackburn 0

Fulham 1 Sunderland 1

Liverpool 2 Wigan Athletic 0

Man Utd 4 West Brom 0

Middlesbrough 0 Chelsea 2

Hull City 1 West Ham 2

Stoke City 1 Tottenham 1

Newcastle 1 Man City 1

[bon3yard]

Once more unto the breach eh Jah? No Pavlyuchenko again.

[bon3yard]

What an awful day with both The Scummers winning and Chelsea wiping the floor with Boro. I'm glad to see The Scallies have develpoed some staying power and hopefully they'll give Chelsea a run for the title this year. All I've got to look forward to is a relegation 6 pointer tomorrow. Grim. :-S

[Annasfield]

Scallies?!

Shame I was too drunk to remember the first half. Or maybe that is a good thing.

I don't think my heart my can take another trip to Anfield.

[????]

Isn't the Premiership sooooo exciting...the top 4? The usual suspects and as sickengly their legion of plastic fans going on about their 'footie' teams..

*pukes

[Annasfield]

Bah humbug.

Hull have still to play, so the "top four" could be no more after that game.

And less of the plastic insults thanks.

[????]

er....if the Hammers beat Hull I think they go above Man U....

Annasfield I know you're not a plastic

[SimonM]

As a non-plastic aficionado let it be noted that tomorrow sees the first of this season's Sheffield derby games, live from the Sty on Sky!

[????]

A pity the football's crap because the Championship's far more exciting and unpredictable.....C'mon you Owls ;-)

[bon3yard]

Mmm, John Smiths.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

"League 1" is better still.

If only this had been at the OLD Den....Millwall 0 Leeds 1(td)..followed by 1-1:-$...and 2-1:)) and finally 3-1B):)-D>:D<

[????]

Yes, I have happy memories of the Old Den....avoiding bottles on the Old Kent Road..."Chimminee, chimchiminee, chim, chim cherooo..we smashed your pub up at quarter to two" etc....

..I miss the old football (no irony)...but I wouldn't have taken my kids!

[SimonM]

Not often you see a player red-carded after he has been substituted!

[Annasfield]

Could there have been anymore drama. That was mental.

Unlucky Spurs.

[Sharon_H]

I hope the player who was taken to hospital is ok.

[????]

the utter despair and utter joy of football illustrated in this afternoon's results....."unlucky Spurs"

*tries to keep straight face, fails

HA HA HA HA

[Sandperson]

And another weekend goes by with Liverpool only having to play ten men so all's well with the world.....

[Keef]

Not liverpool's fault if a guys flies in to a stupid 2 footed challenge a couple of minutes after getting, an admittedly very harsh, first booking. That Wigan striker who's name escapes me is a bit bloody good isn't he!

[Sandperson]

I was merely stating a fact Keef. :)) I thought he won the ball...only joking!

Agger's performance must have had you missing Skirts though?

[Annasfield]

Valencia got the red card and Zaki is the premiership's top scorer for this season to date. I hear that Man Citeh are trying to sweep him out from under Brucie's nose.

Valencia is the fourth player to foul Xabi and be sent of this season. How he is still walking around I will never know. Shocking tackle and defintely a good call by the ref.

I could have throttled Agger yesterday afternoon, but he soon made up for his mistake without that excellent run for Kuyt's first goal. He's been out for nearly 13 months now, so it will take him a bit of time to rebuild that understanding with Reina and Carra. Still really rate him as a player.

[Sandperson]

Zaki and Torres up front would be some combination. ;-)

[Annasfield]

Quite happy with Keane and Kuty atm.

[Jah Lush]

It's bloody painful being a Spurs fan at the moment and coming into work on a Monday morning after another terrible performance and listening to the ribbing from certain colleagues (Bastards!). I watched the continuing horror that is our season in the CPT and it was so awful it was embarrassing. Luck or lack of it had nothing to do with it. We were rubbish from start to finish.

We have Udinese up next in the UEFA Cup on Thursday followed by Bolton, Arsenal and Liverpool in the Premiership. If we can't beat teams like Stoke City then I certainly can't see us winning any of those matches especially the last two. If things don't change very very quickly I can see the prospect of relegation becoming a stark reality.

Meanwhile, Martin Jol's Hamburg side continue to sit at the top of the Bundesliga. If he is enjoying a certain feeling of schadenfreude at the moment I wouldn't be at all surprised and I wouldn't blame him either.

[mockney piers]

I don't know, there were glimmers of hope in that performance, especially in the first half. Plus I don't think the first red should have been a red, it wasn't a dangerous or professional tackle, just rubbish.

Second red mind you.....