Premier League — Matchweek 4

WHU lead 1-0 thanks to the Luton ‘keeper doing a Pickford, staying on his then mishandling Bowen’s header two mistakes for the price of one.

A brilliant pass into the six yard box is wasted by Adebayo. That pass though.

R Barkley substituted

Bill Gall,

There's a good player in there …. Young Ross

Woohoo, we are up to 19th! Bring it on!

UTFT!

I didn't even realise Barkley had gone to Luton.

Great header for the first from Bowen, although the more I watched it back, and as much as I don't like to slate keepers, I think Luton's could have done better.

And Zouma. How I wish we could have retained him on a permanent deal.

Looking at our financial mess based on over paying for fools like Gbamin.

Just imagine Chelsea in about 2 years trying to unload their billion pounds worth of under performing deadwood all with lucrative 8-year contracts to satisfy FFP. They are screwed.

Ferguson, Brighton - just WOW!

And only 18 years old!

Ferguson now joint 2nd in the PL with 4.

Striking contrast to Gordon, who leads the PL in yellow cards with 4.

Only two points behind the Saudi trillionaires now. What an embarrassing club playing in the National colours of a foreign nation. Have they no shame?

They’d better stay well away from any invitations to the Saudi embassy/consulate.

Gordo flushed his shot horribly wide. I’m trying to figure out why Newcastle is so inept today

Quite enjoying Brighton taking the p!ss here

Colin, I'd now be suspicious of what's in that big basket that goes from the N'castle dressing room to their coach tonight.

And the pace of that Lamptey kid, just skinning the N'castle defender. Just love to watch Brighton.

there'll be a long sticky trail of slime up the A1 tonight

Just watched Holgate play his part in saints horror show at Sunderland. Boy he just did what we have all seen before.

Drag for him. That was last chance saloon

Do we think that Eddie the Beagle will be around for Barcodes opening Champions League games?

So jealous of Brighton lads - unbelievable what they have done and are doing there. Playing great football and have made buckets loads of money selling these gems their scouting network are picking up and another name steps in !
Probably could be a step too far for them but I hope they can have a go at the top four this year.

Oliver, they obviously copied Bill’s business model.

Eddie How? is about to get the slipper from the Arabs

Would like that too Oliver. Can't wait to see them with the Barca lad with Mitoma out wide and Estupinan overlapping, and I haven't mentioned Ferguson!

Eddie (Dunn): Quote from a Southampton fan site:

"I might be very reactionary here but I don't think I ever wanna see Mason Holgate start in a Saints shirt again."

Hysterical from Eddie Howe: that could have gone either way.

Paul, the downside being its only a loan when I feel we should have said buy only. Leeds played hardball with Gronto, we never seem to do.

Hey, we did get a high pay back/buy back clause in the Cannon switch!

Nick,
I suspect you could be right about Howe - there will be.
"Invisible transfers, long distance calls, Hollow laughter in marble halls "
Dogs of War of course.

What is the percentage Paul?

I thinks Everton, Newcastle and Spurs are in that category of “nearly men”. Big teams, massive loyal followers but just can't crack, for various reasons, that select, elite group.

It might be a case of mentality or spirit or, simple determination and bloody mindedness but they win and the rest of us don't. We get close but fall at the final hurdle be it LasagneGate, the Keegan meltdown or having a useless, clueless, feckless owner and chairman.

Saying that, we are a far more successful (historically) club than either The Barcodes or Spurs — despite the shit they spout.

Not sure Oliver, sorry. I did see it somewhere on line - I think here - and it was not insubstantial (20%ish). I really wish him well.

Newcastle self-proclaim themselves to be as big as Manchester United. They were doing it in the 90s under Keegan.

And Sky adore them.

It will be interesting to see how much patience their Oil owners afford Howe.

Can he do an Arteta and turn around a bad start? Or does he become their Manchester City Mark Hughes as soon as something better comes along?

Watching the highlights, the tactics were defensively all over the place. The gap between the centre backs was as wide open as our midfield has been recently.

Paul (Ferry), we put up with him for long enough -now it's Southampton fans who can squirm.

Unless I missed it, this news took me by surprise.

Arsenal's Premier League trip to Everton later this month has been rescheduled to Sunday 17 September, the club have announced.

The fixture was originally scheduled to take place on Saturday, September 16 at 5:30 pm. However, it has now been moved to the following day after Newcastle United's home game with Brentford being bought a day forward due to their Champions League campaign kicking-off the following Tuesday.

Source: Football London

Way to go, Digne. Give the new guy plenty of space.

[Score witheld due to offence]

Emery looks like he is just trying to get to halftime without conceding another. Surely some changes then, this is painful although they did finally get a pass in the box. That back line is getting worked.

Villa only ever look amazing when they play against us.

Wolves look shit, Palace doing to them what we should have done last weekend.

Can't believe they won at Goodison Park!

Wolves are truly crap.

Soren (40) guess who Wolves play in 2 weeks ? Yep another weekend when the RS win and we probably lose.

Was just about to post the same Soren, but it just shows doesn't it how much we needed Beto to kill off teams like Wolves and against Fulham.

Sheffield Utd18th
Wolves 19th
Luton 20th

That is my best guess from what I've seen so far.

Why are Manchester United dressed like Newcastle?

Danny @44,

I think it's a tribute to very early Manchester United kits, but the pinstripe is a lot narrower than it was then, it's green and white rather than black and white isn't it?

How can you let Rashford have that shot when you have help?

That was a response. 1-1

1-1?
How come I'm paying for Sky, watching it live and you in the USA see a goal before I do in the UK?

Drag, sorry. Should I wait? That was pissing some off on the live forum.

Dale @48
I'd expect it to happen when using jarg links, but I'm a bit miffed when I'm a paying customer and find out someone has scored before I've seen it, only about half-a-minutes delay from when you posted and I saw the goal. I'll leave TW for the duration of live matches in future, so carry on posting Dale.

Kicked him in the head from behind. A yellow?

I thought England were very good last night, yes they were only playing Scotland but the passing and movement around the opponents box was terrific. I really struggle to see why Foden isn't an automatic starter both for City and England, you can see he has spent a lot of years on the training ground working with David Siva and of late Bernardo Silva, 2 players who had great first touch and brilliant awareness. Bellingham put on a master class, I am sure our neighbours fans will be asking how come we found £111 million to bid for Cacedo yet couldn't find £105 million for Bellingham. Still only 20 and has absolutely everything you would wish for, and the great thing he is only going to get better.
For the first time in a long time I believe England have a team capable of winning trophies.

Brian, those two stood out, Foden is a great player to watch full of energy skill pace, always ready to attack, a good bit of aggression too.

Bellingham is a class act, that position last night suits him perfectly, Scotland could not deal with that level of player. As a lip reader, the only thing he got wrong all night he sang ‘god save the queen' at the start!

Also, some credit to Rice and Phillips in midfield, they kept a lid on McTominay and McGinn, two really tough midfielders.