Ruthless

Opening weekend - Saturday, 14 August

Aston Villa v West Ham
Blackburn v Everton
Blackpool v Wigan
Bolton v Fulham
Chelsea v West Brom
Liverpool v Arsenal
Man Utd v Newcastle
Sunderland v Birmingham
Tottenham v Man City
Wolverhampton v Stoke

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We should totally give the Prem its own thread next season OH WAIT WE ALWAYS DO THAT.

C'mon, Joe - sharpen up. You were only gone a year.

So I'm not supposed to put what I was thinking in the what are we thinking thread? So if I'm not supposed to put what I was thinking in the what are we thinking thread just where am I supposed to put what I was fucking thinking then if not in the what are we thinking thread?

Twerp.

Ahem. Bones, instead of castigating wor Joey, why didn't you, as a Mod, split the thread?

Cos eeeeees a fuckin disgrace.

Joe could have used his own mod powers to spl.... hahaha, oh I crack myself up sometimes.

I don't think the Prem deserves any threads any more, it's kind of sunk into irrelevance I reckon.

I guess week 1 is as good a time as any to face the Arse. With any luck, RVP will be struggling to get over his 250 minutes of WC exertions ( ) and Cesc will be sold or unsettled. We will be horrific in the first game as we always are, and without Masch, Torres or Gerrard the four 17-year-olds in our starting XI will miss their leadership. Here's hoping for a 1-1. Similarly, I hope that Citeh's new 500m-pound strikeforce hasn't gelled yet by week 2 and that Torres feels sheepish about destroying his old employers and subconsciously decides to put in a weak shift.

Nice to see Blackpool eased in gently at home to Wigan: hope they stay up. I felt the same way last season about Burnley until 2 months in, when they became tedious and shit.
Holloway should keep them from becoming tedious for a while.

As long as Blackpool don't fuck themselves silly spending money they don't have,enjoy their season in the sun and don't break any Arsenals players legs, then good luck to them.
I wish them well.

at your

edit:

So Landycakes supposedly knocked up some girl when he was at Everton.

Permanent move to the Prem here we cum.

Holy shit, I didn't know it started anywhere close to that soon. Awesome.

My father is convinced he's gay.

Ok, so uncle Woy takes charge of Liverpool. How do our resident plastic scousers feel about this? What does he need to do, and what are your realistic expectations?

Do they mean that Gilberto Silva?

The others seem solid buys - Murphy always played his best stuff for Liverpool, Hangeland is better than anyone else they've got at centre half and all their forwards are shit apart from Torres, so adding van der Vaart won't hurt.

Barca eye Ozil (Via the BBC, I don't read the tabloids ).

That's just being greedy, boys. That said, him and Fabregas in the middle with no defensive cover is the last thing Arsenal need.

Speaking of which, Cesc is reconsidering life in the Barcelona reserves, apparently.

What? They're both from the BBC site.

Also, you missed the, er, deliberate of me posting in the wrong thread.

I think he's the best option we have given the financial constraints. My realistic expectations are for us to be better, basically. I'd be over the moon with a top 4 finish or a trophy, but it's hard to tell.