Oh no! Its.....the Dec 31st Prem fixtures thread!

mike65

Saturday, 31 December 2005

Aston Villa v Arsenal, 12:45

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Arsenal
Charlton v West Ham, 13:00

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Draw
Chelsea v Birmingham, 13:00

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Chelsea
Liverpool v West Brom, 15:00----Liverpool
Man Utd v Bolton, 15:00

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Man Utd (just)
Mid'brough v Man City, 15:00----City
Portsmouth v Fulham, 15:00

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Fulham
Sunderland v Everton, 15:00

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Draw
Tottenham v Newcastle, 13:00--Spurs
Wigan v Blackburn, 15:00

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Wigan

Mike.

applehunter

Spurs vs Newcastle looks a great game.

I'd just favour Spurs.

therecklessone

applehunter wrote:

Spurs vs Newcastle looks a great game.

I'd just favour Spurs.

I am not confident at all.

King is out for up to four weeks, so Snoop Gardner will probably play in his place. Snoop vs. Owen...:(

I'm just hoping Defoe starts, cos he could cause the Barcodes defence some real problems.

Dont be at yourself

Gonna be a good few goals in the Spurs Newcastle game I reckon.

I'd fancy Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd to win, though Bolton will make it difficult for Manyoo.

Villain

I'm hoping the Villa can pull of a shock, it really depends if Mellberg comes back in time, news reports today reckon he might just make it.

I reckon Sunderland could get a win too.

OTliddy

Likely wins for MU, Arsenal, Liverpool and ChelC.
Portsmouth v Fulham. Fulham's shower of goals may come to an end here
Wigan v Blackburn. Hopefully 0-0 for my Fantasy Football team

d22ontour

Aston Villa v Arsenal, 12:45

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Away
Charlton v West Ham, 13:00

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Home
Chelsea v Birmingham, 13:00

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Home
Liverpool v West Brom, 15:00----Home
Man Utd v Bolton, 15:00

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Home
Mid'brough v Man City, 15:00----Draw
Portsmouth v Fulham, 15:00

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Home
Sunderland v Everton, 15:00

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Draw
Tottenham v Newcastle, 13:00--Draw
Wigan v Blackburn, 15:00

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Home

segadreamcast

Aston Villa v Arsenal, 12:45

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Away
Charlton v West Ham, 13:00

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Away
Chelsea v Birmingham, 13:00

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Home
Liverpool v West Brom, 15:00----Home
Man Utd v Bolton, 15:00

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Draw/Home...
Mid'brough v Man City, 15:00----Away
Portsmouth v Fulham, 15:00

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Draw
Sunderland v Everton, 15:00

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Away
Tottenham v Newcastle, 13:00--Away
Wigan v Blackburn, 15:00

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Home

Thanx 4 The Fish

Will be at Anfield tomorrow to hopefully see the pool beat a resurgent West Brom hot on the heels of their humping of spurs. I think we should be too strong for them and can also see wins for Charlton, Arsenal, Chelsea Man U, City, Fulham Everton, Spurs and Wigan.

Lemlin

I'm hoping Blackburn's extra few days rest, and the fact MGP should be chomping on the bit after being rested on Monday, will be enough for Blackburn to beat Wigan. The form that Wigan are in though, I'd definitely settle for a point.

Hopefully Bellamy will be back too after his run out against Boro on Monday.

Aston Villa v Arsenal, 12:45

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Arsenal
Charlton v West Ham, 13:00

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West Ham
Chelsea v Birmingham, 13:00

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Chelsea
Liverpool v West Brom, 15:00----Liverpool
Man Utd v Bolton, 15:00

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Draw
Mid'brough v Man City, 15:00----City
Portsmouth v Fulham, 15:00

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Portsmouth
Sunderland v Everton, 15:00

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Everton
Tottenham v Newcastle, 13:00--Spurs
Wigan v Blackburn, 15:00

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Draw

mike65

Crespo scores for Chelsea.

Mike.

Villain

Villa are doing well, but look shaky at the back without Mellberg.

mike65

Chelsea again, so thats that.

Mike.

mike65

Spurs score. The Finn fella.

Mike.

MrJoeSoap

Baros misses a chance in the exact same spot as Flamini did in the first half. Identical chances, identically wasted.

Ljungberg hit the bar with a screamer!

Töpher

Doing well enough, 0-0 be a fair result, or 1-0 Villa. But I can't help feeling that every time Arsenal go forward they are going to score!

Guy:Incognito

Has Henry ran yet?


Baros showing what a clinical finisher he is.

Töpher

Baros skews one over from 12 yards, 1v1 with 'keeper.

Villain

Dangerous free kick to Arsenal!!

Comes to nothing, phew!

mike65

Owen off with a knock. Pity Newcastle!

Mike.

MrJoeSoap

irish1 wrote:

Dangerous free kick to Arsenal!!

Comes to nothing, phew!

Cos the wall was about 3 yards away.

Villain

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Cos the wall was about 3 yards away.

Maybe 6 yards .

Bakke lashes over inside the box!

MrJoeSoap

Sol Campbell is doing his utmost to retain his "Most Stylishly Dressed" award!

Töpher

Villa's crossing seems to be their major downfall thus far, too deep most of the time, or failing to beat the first man (especially from corners and long throws).

mike65

Listening to reports from the Villa Arsenal game I'm glad we got rid of Baros.

Mike.

MrJoeSoap

mike65 wrote:

Listening to reports from the Villa Arsenal game I'm glad we got rid of Baros.

Mike.

He's not doing great but he hasn't been bad. Villa laying siege to the Arsenal goal for the past 10 minutes.

I'm a bit late but....

Aston Villa v Arsenal, 12:45

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Arsenal
Charlton v West Ham, 13:00

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Charlton
Chelsea v Birmingham, 13:00

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Chelsea
Liverpool v West Brom, 15:00----Liverpool
Man Utd v Bolton, 15:00

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Man Utd
Mid'brough v Man City, 15:00----Draw
Portsmouth v Fulham, 15:00

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Draw
Sunderland v Everton, 15:00

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Everton
Tottenham v Newcastle, 13:00--Spurs
Wigan v Blackburn, 15:00

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Wigan

mike65

Charlton 2 West Ham 0 Shock!

Mike.

Hobart

Saturday, 31 December 2005

Aston Villa v Arsenal, 12:45

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Draw
Charlton v West Ham, 13:00

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Charlton
Chelsea v Birmingham, 13:00

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Chelsea
Liverpool v West Brom, 15:00----Liverpool
Man Utd v Bolton, 15:00

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Man U
Mid'brough v Man City, 15:00----Draw
Portsmouth v Fulham, 15:00

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Fulham
Sunderland v Everton, 15:00

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Everton
Tottenham v Newcastle, 13:00--Newky
Wigan v Blackburn, 15:00

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Blackburn

PHB

Jesus, everyone is so confident about United winning, I'm nowhere near as sure.
I expect us to be in the driving seat, but Bolton are always a tricky tie.

p.s.
Watching Villa vs. Arsenal
The finishing is absolutely woeful.
Baros is having a fantastic game, except for his finishing

mike65

Mido scores Spurs 2 up.

Mike.

Guy:Incognito

What time is the Utd kick off? Fantasy premier league are showing a point for Van Der Sar and O'shea in my team already.

Töpher

3:00

mike65

Arsenal held, Villa seem to be picking up points while being pretty poor.

Mike.

mike65

Riise and Luis Garcia to start to Pool, Horsfield and Campell lead the WBA attack.

Mike.

PHB

United Line-up:

VDS

Neville-Ferdinand-Slyvestre-Richardson

Ronaldo - Fletcher - O'Shea - Giggs

Saha - Rooney

Villain

Villa weren't poor today mike65, infact all the commentators agree that Villa deserved a win, even Frank (an Arsenal fan) on Soccer Saturday said if it was a boxing match Villa would win it on points.

Baros had a very good game except for the one real chance he got. If Villa keep playing like that they will ease to a mid table finish. Villa have only 1 defeat in 7 now!

mike65

I understood that Baros ran offside about 6 or 8 times (Cisse style)! Still I was relying on radio reports.

Mike.

Töpher

Watched it on PPLive, ESPN China. Villa played well. They're certainly performing a bit better now, Baros had a good game running the lines again. Milners crossing was sub-standard, but he's normally great so can't hold that against him. Even the BBC reports say Villa were much more deserving of a victory.

Villain

Oh he did in the first half but that was more to do with Arsenal holding their line so well.

Arsenal really don't like when you get at them, Villa were well up it and got stuck in, Henry was very quite considering we had Ridgewell and Delaney at the heart of our defence.

Also Davis really is doing well now, I just hope we can hold onto him.

So newcastle lose again, how long will Souness get??

Hobart

PHB wrote:

Jesus, everyone is so confident about United winning, I'm nowhere near as sure.
I expect us to be in the driving seat, but Bolton are always a tricky tie.

After seeing the team, I'm not as sure as I was. Whats the story with RVN being dropped? Is he injured? If not, wtf is fergie doing breaking up such a potent partnership? Saha is'nt fit to clean RVN boots imo.

Villain

Goal Utd

OG N'Gotty!!

RVN is on the bench but no sign of Ole.

mike65

Saha scores

Mike.

PHB

**** yeah, booyeah!

Some great crosses coming in from the left, and an unfortunate OG.


Saha is quite good imo, and Ruud needs a rest, has played pretty much non stop for ages, and you could see it coming through at the end of matches lately.
And its paid off so far

Davei141

Its an own goal by n'gotty.

Hobart

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Aquos76

mike65 wrote:

Owen off with a knock. Pity Newcastle!

Mike.

It has now been confirmed that he has a broken toe. Expected to be sidelined for up to 2 months. There are also concerns over Shay Given, he may have a suspected broken finger.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4572082.stm

Guy:Incognito

Utd 1-1 Bol

Speed.

There goes my ff clean sheet for VDS and O'Shea

Aquos76

Man U1-1 Bolton Speed

Shred

Leonard wrote:

It has now been confirmed that he has a broken toe. Expected to be sidelined for up to 2 months. There are also concerns over Shay Given, he may have a suspected broken finger.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4572082.stm

Just listening to the commentary on LFC.TV and they reckon it's a broken metatarsal and Owen's out for 5 months:eek:

Villain

Sky Sports just said 2 to 3 months it is a broken metatarsal, Souness has said it is a very dark day for the club!!!