Weekend Premiership fixtures - ( may contain scores )

Rikand

Saturday, 08 April 2006

Charlton v Everton, 15:00 - Draw
Portsmouth v Blackburn, 15:00 - Draw
Sunderland v Fulham, 15:00 - Away
Tottenham v Man City, 12:45 - Home
Wigan v Birmingham, 17:15 - Home

Sunday, 09 April 2006

Aston Villa v West Brom, 12:00 - Away
Chelsea v West Ham, 12:00 - Home
Liverpool v Bolton, 14:00 - Home
Man Utd v Arsenal, 16:00 - Home
Middlesbrough v Newcastle, 15:00 - Home

MrJoeSoap

Saturday, 08 April 2006

Charlton v Everton, 15:00 - Home
Portsmouth v Blackburn, 15:00 - Draw
Sunderland v Fulham, 15:00 - Draw
Tottenham v Man City, 12:45 - Home
Wigan v Birmingham, 17:15 - Home

Sunday, 09 April 2006

Aston Villa v West Brom, 12:00 - Draw
Chelsea v West Ham, 12:00 - Home
Liverpool v Bolton, 14:00 - Home
Man Utd v Arsenal, 16:00 - Draw
Middlesbrough v Newcastle, 15:00 - Away

PHB

Charlton v Everton, 15:00 - Everton
Portsmouth v Blackburn, 15:00 - Blackburn
Sunderland v Fulham, 15:00 - Draw
Tottenham v Man City, 12:45 - Spurs
Wigan v Birmingham, 17:15 - Draw

Sunday, 09 April 2006

Aston Villa v West Brom, 12:00 - West Brom (:o)
Chelsea v West Ham, 12:00 - Draw(i'm praying, but I imagine a home win)
Liverpool v Bolton, 14:00 - Draw (although I'm not sure, could go either way)
Man Utd v Arsenal, 16:00 - Utd
Middlesbrough v Newcastle, 15:00 - Newcastle

Rikand

Spurs take the lead on Man City
Salteri 44th min

MrJoeSoap

David James has made two amazing saves, but had one howler. His second save fell to Stalteri, who scored. Good game so far.

mike65

Saturday, 08 April 2006

Charlton v Everton, 15:00 - Draw
Portsmouth v Blackburn, 15:00 - Away
Sunderland v Fulham, 15:00 - Away
Tottenham v Man City, 12:45 - Home
Wigan v Birmingham, 17:15 - Draw

Sunday, 09 April 2006

Aston Villa v West Brom, 12:00 - Away
Chelsea v West Ham, 12:00 - Home
Liverpool v Bolton, 14:00 - Home
Man Utd v Arsenal, 16:00 - Draw
Middlesbrough v Newcastle, 15:00 - Away

Mike.

andrewie

2-1 Spurs. Carrick 49 min, Samaras 52 min

Lemlin

Portsmouth vs. Blackburn is on RTE at 3 according to Paddypower.com.

mike65

Suddenly watching nags being pushed to within an inch of thier lives seems attractive!

Mike.

WhiteWashMan

good win for spurs. keeps the pressure on everyone else now.

and can you keep it on topic please mike. off to the horseracing forum if you want to watch blackburn and portsmouth

PHB

Portsmouth really pushing, might even get a win out of this

A-Trak

I was just checking the scores on livescore.com and is states that the Sunderland v Fulham game has been suspended after 14mins, no other details.

Nothing on BBC sport yet.

Anyone any ideas? Surely not flood lights or weather!

6ix

heavy snow ==> waterlogged pitch

A-Trak

Well thats me told.

*Maybe should've done some sneaky editing on previous post.*

DEmeant0r

lol this is ridiculous, we're gonna have to start from 0 mins and 0-0, Riley is such a **** ref...

6ix

A-Trak wrote:

Well thats me told.

*Maybe should've done some sneaky editing on previous post.*

... I saw the BBC live text update at around 3pm and it said

'Sunderland.... kick off in heavy snow at the Stadium of Light'. Thought the abandonment might happen after that.. Was stupid to start it in the first place.

mike65

Great goals from Bellamy and Lua Lua (who should get extra marks for his celebration!)

Mike.

Pepe LeFrits

Points dropped for Blackburn, leaving them 4 points behind Spurs and 1 point ahead of Arsenal, who have 2 games in hand over both (against Man United and Portsmouth). Important week coming in the race for 4th...

mr_angry

mike65 wrote:

Suddenly watching nags being pushed to within an inch of thier lives seems attractive!

Mike.

Stenoslav Todorov is not attractive in any circumstances.

segadreamcast

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

Points dropped for Blackburn, leaving them 4 points behind Spurs and 1 point ahead of Arsenal, who have 2 games in hand over both (against Man United and Portsmouth). Important week coming in the race for 4th...

Sorry to ruin your hopes Pepe - but with each game that passes, it really looks more and more certain that Arsenal will get it. Wish it wasn't so - as I love to see variety but - this won't be the case!

Pepe LeFrits

Um, I'm an Arsenal fan... :P

segadreamcast

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

Um, I'm an Arsenal fan... :P

Oh right then - well, basically, take my message and change the sympathetic tone to one of congratulations then .

WhiteWashMan

congratulations?

i wasnt aware they awarded places in the league with 5 games still to go...

Lemlin

Blackburn did well today to get a point. I can't see Portsmouth going down. They treated today like a cup final and I'm sure every game will be like that from now on.

Bellamy was superb again. They compared both his goals to something like Henry would score on RTE 2 and I'd have to agree. He's reaching top form and just at the right time. Its a pity that MGP looks to be burnt out after a terrific season.

Rovers are now four points behind Spurs but I've just had a look at the run ins:

Spurs play:
Everton (A)
Man United (H)
Arsenal (A)
Bolton (H)
West Ham (A)

Blackburn play:
Liverpool (H)
Birmingham (A)
Charlton (A)
Chelsea (H)
Man City (H)

From those two, I'd definitely prefer Blackburn's but nothing is set in stone yet. Anything can happen as Birmingham showed by beating Bolton on Tuesday night.

Arsenal play:
Man United (A)
Portsmouth (A)
West Brom (H)
Totenham (H)
Sunderland (A)
Man City (A)
Wigan (H)

The easiest run in of the three by far IMO. That said, alot depends on their game against Tottenham and tomorrow evening.

I'm still going for Arsenal to finish fourth and Blackburn and Spurs to battle it out for fifth.

WhiteWashMan

well, i dont see blackburn getting any points out of liverpool or chelsea.
and lets say spurs lose against arsenal and utd, that still leaves you 4 points adrift with 3 games to play. you have to win all of those, and spurs only have to win 1.
however, they arent played yet, so who knows.


and arsenal still have to win those games they have in hand. personally id rather have points in the bank than games in hand. ive seen too many teams drift away at the end of the season.
who knows, bolton sure werent expecting to lose 3 league games on the trot,and i dont think too many of us here predicted it either. arsenal may just lose 4 on the trot, and spurs may lose all last 5 games...

therecklessone

Just in the door from the Lane this afternoon, delighted with the 3 points, and happy with the overall performance.

Tainio in for Davids made a huge difference in the middle, the lad works his socks off every game I see and deserves a place in the starting XI. The back four worked well together, Stalteri was solid at RB after returning, and YP Lee had a fantastic game at LB. Keane was fantastic throughout.

The one problem I had was with the CMs, Carrick had a poor game (again) and Jenas doesn't have the presence or physicallity to impose himself on a game the way Davids did before Xmas. I'd have gone with Lennon on the left, Jenas on the right and Tainio in the centre with Carrick to snuff out Musampa for Citeh (who had loads of possession and space to work with).

As for the run-ins...if Arsenal lose tomorrow the gap is back to 5 points with only 1 game in hand and the game at Highbury (sandwiched between two CL SF ties) becomes crucial. I agree with WWM about Blackburn's chances, I can't see Blackburn get anything from Chelsea or Liverpool (or for that matter more than a point against Brum) though his sums sound a bit off. Single points for Spurs away to Everton, and at home to Utd with the full 3 at home to Bolton should secure us fifth place.

I still think it will be Arsenal, Spurs, Blackburn in that order.

segadreamcast

WhiteWashMan wrote:

congratulations?

i wasnt aware they awarded places in the league with 5 games still to go...

You can phrase the games in hand whichever way you wish WWM, it should be fairly easy for Arsenal to achieve fourth now. That Newcastle loss will cost them badly.

mike65

Chelsea - West Ham KO

Chelsea
P Cech, N Geremi, W Gallas, J Terry, A Del Horno, C Makelele, N Maniche, F Lampard, M Essien, H Crespo, D Drogba
Subs: C Cudicini, A Ricardo Carvalho, J Cole, A Robben, S Wright-Phillips

West Ham
S Hislop, L Scaloni, J Collins, D Gabbidon, P Konchesky, Y Benayoun, H Mullins, N Reo-Coker, M Etherington, D Ashton, M Harewood
Subs: J Walker, T Sheringham, B Zamora, S Newton, C Clarke

I fancy West Ham suddenly

Mike.

PHB

P Cech, N Geremi, W Gallas, J Terry, A Del Horno, C Makelele, N Maniche, F Lampard, M Essien, H Crespo, D Drogba

Whats with that team?

Cech
Geremi - Gallas - Terry - Del Horno

Makelele-Essien
Maniche - Lampard

Crespo - Drogba

It's a very weird formation.

Come on the hammers

PHB

Go Gogogoogogogoogogoo Go Go Ogogoogogog West Hammamammamamamamammamam

mike65

West Ham scores!

Mike.

fade2black

Oh baby!

PHB

Jesus christ, off the bar!

therecklessone

West Ham are all over the place at the back, I expect Chelsea to socre before too long.

PHB

Maniche just got sent off!!!

1-0 down and a a man down!!!

Harsh red. It's over the ball, but I don't think it's intent. It's gotta be a misjudgement. To me that was like Ronaldo's red card this season, but it wasn't a red.

mike65

Maniche off straight red.

Mike.

fade2black

Looked more than a red to me. I thought the police were going to get involved. It was filthy PHB.

Chong

Please please West Ham win please, what I wouldnt give for the hammers to win.

arbeitsscheuer

Come On You Irons!!!

mike65

Chelsea scores. Drogba

Mike.

PHB

afffs that's terrible defending from West Ham

homerjay2005

maybe the heading tomorrow will be,

"jose as sick as a parrot, as united move within 4"

its a long way to go though, id still be happy with a draw in this game, but if west ham hold, it would be sensational. a draw in this one and a draw later on im thinking, hopefully bolton will take points next week and we hammer sunderland. go on the hammers

mike65

Crespo!

Mike.

PHB

typical chelsea

They always do this, get my hopes up then knock em down.

Chong

I have always said West Ham was my second favourite team.

Chong

God Damn chelsea.

Chong

I had my sky + box paused earlier and was like 7 mins behind, so I couldnt understand why Mike was saying Chelsea was scoring. Then I noticed the sky + box lol.

Oh well the ignorance was nice while it lasted .

homerjay2005

false hope eh?!

therecklessone

Told yis Chelsea would score before too long...

arbeitsscheuer

So. A goal behind, down to 10 men and those buggers just wouldn't die. Characteristic of champions, dare I say it... Disappointing from West Ham, but this is what Chelski were like up til a few weeks ago - devastatingly clinical.

Limerick Dude

cmon west ham, 2nd half