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Premier League Team of the Season (so far)
With Sven winner of August’s manager of the month award and Micah Richards receiving the player of the month gong, I thought it might be interesting to try to build a complete ‘team of the first month and a half’. Many questions arise when considering such a team: should it just be a collection of…
Reading- The Latest Team to Experience SSS?
At the start of the 2006/07 season most assumed that Chelsea and Manchester United would compete for the title; they also assumed that the teams that had come up from the Championship would struggle. Of the three teams that came up, two did as expected. Watford finished rock bottom of the table, six points below…
Weekend Predictions: Arsenal – Liverpool – Tottenham – Manchester United – Newcastle United – West Ham – Manchester City – Fulham – Aston Villa – Bolton Wanderers – Portsmouth – Chelsea – Wigan – Middlesbrough – Sunderland – Everton – Reading – Blackburn Rovers – Birmingham City – Derby County
The Premier League weekend is likely to be overshadowed by Jose Mourinho’s exit (dismissal) from Chelsea, something that has also overshadowed the minor injury crisis at Liverpool as Daniel Agger and Xabi Alonso are out for 6 weeks following metatarsal injuries. No chance to breath though, as we’ve got some exciting close fixtures, 2 one-sided…
Weekend Predictions: Arsenal – Liverpool – Tottenham – Manchester United – Newcastle United – Chelsea – Manchester City – Fulham – Aston Villa – Bolton Wanderers – Portsmouth – West Ham – Wigan – Middlesbrough – Sunderland – Everton – Reading – Blackburn Rovers – Birmingham City – Derby County
Back from international week and the Premier League is raring to go with Liverpool, Everton, Chelsea and Arsenal all on 10 points and all teams looking to increase their lead at the top of the table. As usual, we’ve got the weekend predictions and previews – you can also make your own predictions by copying…
Weekend Review: Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, West Ham, Manchester United, Newcastle, Chelsea, Manchester City
The top 12 are separated by 3 points, the top 4 are on 10 points and theoretically speaking, Manchester United are only, at most, 5 games off the pace while Chelsea are 3 points off. However, Liverpool are top on goal difference (courtesy of Derby) followed by Arsenal and then Everton, and for these teams,…
Carling Cup 3rd Round Draw (2007/2008)
See the latest Carling Cup 3rd round draw here. The article below refers to 07/08′s draw. The Carling Cup 3rd Round draw was announced today, and it threw up some interesting matchups:
Premier League Predictions: Arsenal, Tottenham, West Ham, Liverpool, Newcastle, Manchester United to win
Must be a tough day for managers today. Almost every club is looking to sign or sell players and to add to the drama, they have to prepare their teams for the weekend games as well. This is why managers have assistants to deal with most of the team’s training and preparation and in some…
West Ham will be a bad move for Reading’s Shorey
The Beeb reports that West Ham have made a 5m bid for Reading left-back Nicky Shorey. Shorey’s a good player and West Ham will improve thanks to him, but I don’t think that moving to West Ham would turn into a good career move for Shorey. This has nothing to do with whether I like…
Normal service resumes in the Premier League
It’s back to familiar terms for Manchester United this weekend as they claimed their first win of the new season, albeit a nervy (and controversial) one against Tottenham. The rest of the fixtures provided their usual entertainment and by now most viewers would have realised that no matter what happens, most of these teams tend…
Premier League Predictions (25th/26th Aug): Will your team win?
Back with another issue of Soccerlens Premier League predictions – to make your own predictions, jump to the end of this post, copy-paste the list of fixtures and make your predictions in the comments.
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