As the new season kicks off i thought i would start a thread,This is the first season i will be away from the UK fir the footie.Being a Man Utd fan im ganna be biest(Sp) and say there ganna win the Title,but i see chelsea being up there again of course.What do you guys think!

Bring on the good times

Hmm prediction-wise I'll go for the obvious

1. Chelski
2. Arsenal
3. ManUre

with Liverpool, the "Champions of Europe" :rolleyes: finishing at 5 or 6.

COME ON THE ARSENAL!

I hope arsenal stuggle,I cant see how they can replace Viera

Personally I'm glad Viera finally f*cked off, and wish that mercenary Cole had gone aswell. F*ckin mercenaries. The boy Fabregas and the new guy Hleb will handle the midfield and Patrick's absence will hardly be noticed.

If I were a ManUre fan I'd be worried about Ruud's impotence in front of goal as well as the midfield and goalkeeping problems.

Thats why we have brought Van der saar,ruud will be back to his usual self i think this season,The title race will be closer this season

So what part of Cornwall are you from then, De Niro ?

How about a League 1 discussion. I'm still getting over the shock of paying £14 to stand at Glanford Park. But so far we're looking comfortable in the division. As the new boys of the division I'll take 4 points from 3 games even though we deserve more. Our home record should keep us up this season.

The Premiership, yeah I've been looking forward to that too. It's the best league in the world - better than La Liga and Serie A without a doubt in my mind.

The Dr: Alexandre Hleb is going to turn out to be the steal of the Premiership this season. Wenger does it often but this is a great buy at relatively low price. Cesc Fabregas has been getting a lot compliments in the footballing world and rightly so. He'll be awesome this year but only if he's used sparingly. If there's an injury in the midfield he'll end up getting played too often and I think he's a wee bit too young for that yet.

But it's Chelsea's season again. Even their second team could finish in the top 6.

My god. I haven't been this bored with football since before I even knew about it. It's silly. A financial business not worth the money you pay for to see a match. I despise the players, and many of the supporters, who go for a day our and not to watch and support the teams. Last major match I went to was like a library in decibels.

Anyway, Newcastle are shit. I reckon a bottom half place this season for sure, judging by our team right now. Souness will be gone by November, if he doesn't bring anybody else in. Strikers, please. Shearer can't score every goal this season. Well, perhaps he can...

Anyway, come on Arsenal. I want them to win the league, not Chelsea. If Newcastle don't, that is.

Mick

I dunno about a steal... he cost quite a pretty penny. But from what we've seen so far, it certainly looks like Wenger's spent wisely. As for young Cesc - he'll probably share the work in midfield with Flamini, he's also quite tough and I reckon could handle 35+ matches.

My main worry - surprise surprise - is our performance in Europe...

Entirely agree, Capo. Overpaid arrogant twats and very poor sportsmen. Appalling behaviour both on and off the pitch from many of them. Shocking to believe that these embarrasing thugs are paid more in a week than many honest hard-working people earn in a year - even more shocking and sickening to have our tabloid press dub them "heroes" at whim.

Chelsea will win the premiership this season I reckon...they basically have 2 first teams

I used to watch the Scottish Football league all the time untill they switched it to a channel you had to pay for Celtic's out of Europe already so its not started very well for my team!!

Oh yeah and I forgot to mention that if Chelsea don't win the league (that's a big 'if') then coaching will be to blame. They've got the players to do it but judging by the Wigan game they've got to be mentally and physically prepared for the season and not get complacent. As much as I love Mourinho (what a breath of fresh air he's been to the Premiership) I think he's the only one to blame if the title is not retained.

I used to hate the wages the players get but I've grown accustomed to it now. The wages are put into perspective when you consider that the average Premieship wage is roughly £15,000 a week. Still more than I earn in a year but it's not all Rio £120,000/week. Mind you, he's paying 40% of that in taxes. You get TV presenters earning the same as Premiership players and they're in the same business - the entertainment industry. Plus where else is the money going to go? Into the pockets of the directors and board members. It certaintly isn't going to go to charity. But I'll agree with the earlier players behaviour comments. There's a bad majority of them that are absolute children and get away with murder.

I agree Turi! Did you see that program that was on a while back about the ex-footballers going off the rails when they retire because most of them join clubs in the childhood and are taking care of from the word go by the clubs, they get doctors, dentists, their cars washed at the click of their fingers!! So when they wake up the day they reitre its like they are lost because most of them have had everything done for them! Probably the cause of why most of them turn to drink..

What's a "Premiership"? The UKers never seem to post about cricket. What's your take on that as a sport? Where does it rank with football (soccer of course)?

Cricket sucks.
Soccer sucks.

But I can follow soccer, and probably will once the season gets going, but I'm sick of it.

The Premiership is the top soccer league over here, MC. As Turi said, it's probably the best in the world--but only because of overseas imports, who play with as much passion as a worm.

Mick

I rate the Primera Division (Spain) above the Premiership.

Barcelona, Deportivo, Villareal, Real, Valencia, Sevilla!

Serie A is probably just as strong as the Premiership: Milan (best team in the world), Internazionale, Juventus, Lazio, Roma.

I think the Scottish Premier League is the best league in the world!

I really hope that was ironic !!!
Please... Celtic out in 2nd qualification round for CL, and Rangers? Buffel and Prso, but for the rest?

Yes Enzo i was taking the piss a smidgeon with that one

What makes you think im from Cornwell,Nottingham more like Good start for man utd lets hope we can keep it up

Saturday, 20 August 2005
Barclays Premiership

Birmingham v Man City, 17:15
Blackburn v Fulham, 15:00
Charlton v Wigan, 15:00
Liverpool v Sunderland, 15:00
Man Utd v Aston Villa, 12:45
Newcastle v West Ham, 15:00
Tottenham v Middlesbrough, 15:00
West Brom v Portsmouth, 15:00



Sunday, 21 August 2005
Barclays Premiership

Bolton v Everton, 13:30
Chelsea v Arsenal, 16:00(The first big game of the season)Lets hope its a draw

Lets hope the Toon can sneak a win against the "mighty" Hammers
I'll be there but i'll not be too confident...

Why did Chelsea had to buy Essien? And for 38 million euro?

They already had 6 central midfielders for 2 positions, and still.

Btw, those central midfielders are now Lampard, Makelélé, Jarosik, Tiago, Essien, Diarra, and Geremi.

And they shouldn't've taken Crespo away from where he wanted to be, the great AC MILAN!

Because they can.

By the way ... is Enzo Scifo still playing?

Nah, he retired in 2000, I think. He had a great technique, and he could be with the best, but some wrong career movements made he was "only" of the best Belgians in the 80's and 90's, which of course doesn't say much cause it's only Belgium. :rolleyes:

I just have to say I can't believe Scunthorpe beat Notts Forest on Saturday. As if I could have ever imagined saying that 2,3,5,10,20 years ago. Haha, love it and it was a cracking Billy Sharp goal.

The only downside is that I should have been there, all my mates went but I pulled out because I'm skint. The home games are expensive enough.

0-0 against 10 men
I'm not a happy man at all!
By the way Enzo...along with your good self i used to like Jan Ceulemans & eric gerets.
Good players all!

Thanks Yogi.

Nowadays it's a bit less than in those days, but we have a new, very talented player. His name is Vincent Kompany, 19 years, and all the big teams want him. Milan, Juventus, Inter, Real, Barca, Chelsea, ... But he costs £15 million / € 20 million.

Hey Enzo i have heard of him due to Chelsea (&Man. Utd's) interest!
Of course i am forgetting Phillipe Albert too...a great player for the Toon
Maybe Newcastle could try & sign this Kompany kid?
Of course pigs might fly too

Yeah. The day Alan Shearer stops, Newcastle is pretty much ... doomed.

I just have to say I can't believe Scunthorpe beat Notts Forest on Saturday. As if I could have ever imagined saying that 2,3,5,10,20 years ago. Haha, love it and it was a cracking Billy Sharp goal.

The only downside is that I should have been there, all my mates went but I pulled out because I'm skint. The home games are expensive enough. [/b][/quote]Funny you should say that cause you where the first person i thought of when i seen the score on the net scunnie could make the play offs i think if there lucky