Game Week numero uno in the Premier League and these are my predictions.
Arsenal vs Sunderland
All the chatter has been about the departure of Van Persie, but the more level headed in the audience may wish to dwell upon the arrivals of Olivier Giroud, Lukas Podoloski and Santi Cazorla which is about £40m worth of improvement into a side that finished as some of you might recall last time out finished top 4.
Sunderland haven’t spent a nickel, all the players that left them went to – without being overly unkind – no mark sides. Which is to say they didn’t even have any cherries worth picking.
Prediction? Possibly a gooner landslide 3-0 is 15/2.
Fulham vs Norwich
Poor old Martin Jol. Clint Dempsey has been struck down with ‘I’m Brilliant I Am Disease’ and is pulling the same sulky stunt as Modric. Dempsey looks half good at Fulham but the truth is so would my nan. In the wings waits Hugo Rodallega who could just do the business. Maybe.
Norwich were good value last season.Not so hot away from Carrow Road, but their fans travelled in number and it will be interesting to see if the series of low key/budget signings have been worthwhile. There’s a cut the mustard gag in there somewhere but I’m not going in looking for it.
Prediction? Fulham were occasionally perky last term but this Dempsey business will definitely have got under their skin. 1-1 is 6/1.
QPR vs Swansea
I was a quite pleased to see QPR come up. Loftus Road was one of the first away grounds I went to. But any charm soon wore off down to a whole host of issues. Hysterical pricing, Joey Barton er…Joey Barton. The fact they took Ryan Nelson and Rob Green in just about completes the picture of a side destined to get up your nose.
Their entire season was built around home form. So if that can be cracked I’d put a few sheckles on them getting relegated.
Swansea have been burgled. Manager gone. Joe Allen gone. Gylfi gone. Laudrup’s made some potentially canny low key signings. Jose Manuel Flores (Genoa), Jonathan de Guzman (Villarreal) Michu (Rayo Vallecano) but whether they sink or swim in the Premiership will ultimately decide if they were canny, or just moderately priced Euro trash. Prediction? A 1-1 draw awaits if Swansea haven’t already given up it’s 11/2.
Reading vs Stoke
Reading have been squirreling away a right old rag tag collection of transfer junk. Pierce Sweeney (Bray Wanderers), Danny Guthrie (Newcastle) Nicky Shorey (West Brom, free) and Chris Gunter (Nottingham Forest). Looks to me like they’re preparing to scrap it out. Presumably Stoke will play to type and hoof it up to 3MP. I won’t be frantically looking for a stream for this one Prediction? Stoke to nick it by a goal and 0-1 is 7/1.
West Brom vs Liverpool
West Brom’s ace in the pack for this and perhaps their entire season is Blue Racist loanee Romelu Lukaku. Liverpool fans will be fascinated to see what a Swanseapool side looks like in the flesh. If Rodgers really is planning to implement a revolution then this will be a big opportunity to show it off as West Brom are highly likely to be a quite gormless. Prediction? 1-3 is 14/1 possibly for a reason.
West Ham vs Aston Villa
How in the name of god do people follow rubbish clubs like this? West Ham are still trying to flog tickets for their first home game of the season. Yet they think they will fill Wembley. Absolute jokers.
Villa fans are still bemoaning the departure of Martin O’Neil. The ‘Ammers have of course spent the entire window so far linking themselves to every player going and in reality have signed the usual selection of inexpensive hackers. Villa’s premier signing is a £3m defender Ron Vlaar who took about a month to thrash out a deal for. Joyless, joyless, joyless clubs. Prediction? 0-0 is a banker at 9/1 sell furniture and invest in your children’s future.
Newcastle vs Spurs
Lots of ‘never an easy game’ mutterings coming from Spurs fans. The rage that will be unleashed online if we don’t at least get a draw will be a sight to behold. Newcastle haven’t really been very active in the market, Pards still saying he wants two or three more in before the close of play. But then he doesn’t have ‘t.b.a’ where his strikers names are.
With Defoe and van Der Vaart the only Tottenham men with passports state occupation as ‘Striker’ the onus will be on Bale to pull something out the hat here. Prediction? A shock win! 1-2 is 17/2 and would be a quality start.
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I can’t wait to see how we play in a competitive game. One thing is for sure, a positive start will be as refreshing as a choc ice in the Sahara after the lack of new strikers before the season opener. A win with the team we have now against a very good Newcastle team away would bode well for the near future when we do reinforce. Will have to wait and see though.
you know what is better than wait and see? say it with me, I believe in and have faith in the chicken badge! we head into battle with hearts filled with passion and pride, and bellies full of pies and beers, we kiss the badge and pray to footballing Gods. This is our day, we are the spurs from the lane! we will be victorious!
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Astro will be not melt in the heat?
I hope its our day.If Newcastle will push forwardI think we will do well on the counter with the speed we have.If they play more balanced I think it will be difficlut.Ill be happy with a draw
Will be happy with the draw myself Ronnie. For reasons i cant explain though, i’m feeling more optimistic as the day goes on, probably the rousing speeches from the fellow spurs on this site. The best fans in the world man!!!!!
An away draw against a top 6 side is a decent result, regardless of the season or circumstances, it’s not a damaging result by any means, and a damned sight better than a spanking that’s for sure!
There is no doubt that we ARE the best fans in the world.
I watch many of the away games on TV (dont live in the UK anymore) amd see our boys singing louder than the home fans everywhere.
back in the sixties we were more spoilt.We expected more.We were great when we won but not so great when we lost. Now our fans are top notch all the time.
Said this before,I missed out on the really good times, and and to settle for the Ian Moores, Ralph Coates and Terry Naylor’s of this world. I could never fault their endeavour and willingness, but talent?
Now,when you’re a teenager trying to support the team and you get constant comparisons to players who’ve graced the highest realms of the game, but you’re watching complete dross and all the while this ‘Old Git’ is whittering on about how great so and so was, it could get a little irritating to say the least. So I never compare, it’s just better to remember greatness for what it was,and hope the guy who adorns that shirt can eclipse the previous occupants performances- Whether we’re up or down-come Monday morning-I’ll still be a Yid, always have been, always will be-consistent are fans when all’s said and done.
dont worry lads my nans just read her tea leafs and its 3.0.spurs defoe hatrick…
has she been talking to Harry Redknapp???
No, you silly parson, it’s Redders whose the tea-leaf..well, he looks like one anyway…. allegedly
who’s ( for the pedantic amongst us)
Sweet! :-)
three sugars, shweet enough Astro?
Make it four and a breakfast roll essexian. Football season’s back, we can treat ourselves right?
Oh, yeah and some- ‘Full McDonalds breakfast,hot coffee, pancakes and orange juice.. times 25 please’ for away games. ‘oh, and a carton of sugar as I can’t be asked to tear those piddly packets open while I wait’
no just tea leafs and one of them funny fags shes always puffing on..
I’m gonna take that result as a dead cert then! :shifty:
Fuck the smoked salmon, I’m on the Puffa fish now (inhale)
We could use a Sumo up front
Mido’s at Barnsley Ron ;-) Pukka pie shares have rocketed up North
have southampton signed that winger keep hearing they want 16 mil
i think goons could go either way today
so true about west ham, been advertising season tkts and tkts for today in the Eve Stnd for last 2 weeks, sad v sad. they need 60k capacity at stratford though. mugs utter mugs.
COYS!