While the opening round of Premier League fixtures hasn’t yet concluded, Football Daily can’t be alone in having jerked both knees to the point of dislocation based on the evidence of what little we’ve seen thus far. Newly-promoted Hull City look the most likely contenders to challenge Arsenal for the title. Ipswich Town’s Julio Enciso already looks a shoo-in for the Ballon d’Or.
Eddie Howe will be head coach of Manchester United by the end of the next international break – if Aston Villa don’t nab him first. And judging by James Trafford’s endearingly heartfelt post-match soliloquy on Match of the Day, Leeds United’s gain is very much the Royal Shakespeare Company’s loss. Of course while Trafford is correct in his assertion that things don’t always go swimmingly for even the best of teams, Tottenham fans were genuinely buoyed by optimism going into their curtain-raiser after two seasons of watching their under-performing club circling the drain.
Excited by the sight of their owners hosing a bazillion pounds upon a Supermarket Sweep-style summer transfer market trolley-dash that shows little or no sign of abating, even the most pessimistic among them couldn’t have envisaged the absolute monstering their team would endure at the hands of Brentford. The Italian was completely overshadowed by his Brentford counterpart Mamadou Sangaré, who was immeasurably more effective than Tonali for considerably less than half the transfer fee. Football’s a soap opera, that’s the reality of it – stories within the narrative.
There’s goodies, there’s baddies and you need to live with that, whatever you’re dealt.” And of course, every ongoing soap needs its comic relief and for the third consecutive season, despite stiff opening weekend competition, that role already looks destined for Spurs. Join Rob Smyth from 8pm BST for hot Premier League match updates from Fulham 2-2 Chelsea. Here’s a primer on the Blues.
Now on BlueSpace, TikBook, Instachat, all the lesser disgraces. I read his words in the Bristol press earlier this week when he said, if they give me some proper stick, I’ll celebrate … if they’re not giving Bobby some outrageous chants, then I don’t think Bobby would have been running 100 yards. He had to come off afterwards.
He was very tired” – Bristol Rovers boss Steve Evans defends Bobby Kamwa after the winger scored against Newport County – who he left earlier in the summer – and went the full Adebayor. Last year’s relegation of West Ham and Wolves had them starting at the foot of the no-points, alphabetical order league table. Then some early promise – without even kicking a ball, by 5pm on Saturday they had risen up a whole quarter of the table, to 15th.
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