Dougie.....Sunderland are in safe hands with Steve Bruce ! He is a decent manager and on the whole Sunderland are a fairly decent team. They get the odd poor result but also manage to get the odd suprise one too !! Although behind Newcastle at the moment i think Sunderland will finish above the magpies come May !

IMO.. Spurs have enough goals in them i do not see the need for another striker there is plenty of firepower there and Van der Vaart is scoring freely. I would maybe slightly disagree with midfield situation.. i do feel a little bit more steel and energy is required someone who can take the game by the scruff of the neck and get in amongst it. Defence does need to be strengthened only if cos of injuries.. tho i do hope Arry persists in playing Hutton i really liked the lad at Rangers and Spurs paid good money for him !!

Nothing can be taken for granted this season.... Man U still unbeaten !

Spurs already have a couple of players in this role i.e. Palacios and Sandro. Now I'll admit that Wilson is a bit off form and hopefully will get some back soon. He can certainly put it about.

Sandro, despite his error against Bolton, will, I believe, become an important player for Spurs - good at getting hold of the ball and, unlike Palacios, good with the ball. Style wise, he reminds me of Viera, though obviously has a long way to go to be as good as the great man (what a player). Some in the Brazilian media see him as the long term replacement for Gilberto Silva, although Thiago or Ramires may have something to say about that.

It's quite amazing really that less than a month ago Liverpool were in 18th spot, but as it stands right now they're in 5th place!!!.........just show's how close things are in the Premiership right now 

After dropping 2pts at Wigan their good run has come to an end

Arsenal have an excellent away win at Wolves

Chelsea win 1-0 against Fulham

City and Utd 0-0 last 5 mins

Managed by an Italian.. played like Italians. Shiteh at home set their stall out for a point and they got exactley that. Most boring game i have watched for a long time and not one memorable bit of footy played. Glad i didnt pay for the dis pleasure of the muck that these teams served up

Sounds almost as bad as when they played us at WHL with THREE holding players in midfield. Joe Hart stole two points for them that day.

City certainly arent that attractive to watch are they zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2010/11/10/2208328/arsene-wenger-says-cesc-fabregas-dangerous-tackle-was-accidental-

Totally agree

Apologies for being off topic here but I could not find any reference to the Scottish Leagues anywhere. Apparently the last time Rangers and Celtic where beaten by their Edinburgh counterparts Hibs and Hearts on the same day, was in 1972.

Excellent piece by Martin Samuel as to how far Citeh still have to go to fight with the big boys. It is amazing, given the millions spent, just how dismal this team is under Mancini. But of course Mancini is probably the problem.

Grinding out goalless draws with your perceived competitors, especially at home, isn't going to get Citeh a CL spot. I expect Mancini to be gone by the end of the season at this rate, if not by January.

At least Woy has the 'luxury' of telling his owners he doesn't have a tremendous amount of talent at his disposal. Mancini's fingerprints are all over Citeh, which on paper should wipe the floor with the likes of Liverpool. It should also be giving Utd a run for its money, instead of acting like rabbits in front of car headlights.

Until Citeh's visit to WHL earlier in the season I couldn't remember the last time a team employed three holding midfielders. This is 'parking the bus in front of goal' territory.

Citeh fans will no doubt be wallowing in the glory of being the world's best financed club. But then again, it counts for diddly squat if the manager is scared of his own shadow and has balls the size of a gnat.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1328595/Martin-Samuel-Roberto-Mancini-needs-learn-master-gambler-door.html

In the MotD interview, what he said was [not verbatim] "I've spoken with Cesc and he says it was accidental"

He may have given a further interview where he said "I think it was accidental..... it was completely accidental." Or Goal.com may have 'sexed-up' what he actually said to get a headline.

I know MotD highlights don't always tell the full story, but it seemed to me that for most of the game Liverpool were outplayed. Roy not getting his tactics right.

It was never going to go from rubbish to brilliant overnight, I still thik with Torres back among the goals they are going the right way

Joey Barton back to his old ways again. Him and Andy Carroll on a night out with Lee Bowyer would be one to avoid

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/9181246.stm

Bit of a shock this one and the reasoning is unkown... has Ray been made a scape goat for the recent indifferent form..? Ray Wilkins is probably the nicest bloke in footie never has a bad word to say about anyone and is a thoroughly nice chap !

Well he's got what he deserved, a three match ban.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/9181426.stm

Knife out for Rafa, albeit not from within Inter.........yet.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/3276/serie-a/2010/11/11/2209516/inter-should-have-appointed-arsenals-arsene-wenger-in-the-summer-

Just in case (like the ref) no-one saw it.

He has changed you know, he's almost angelic now, saintly even

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/9181246.stm

Bit of a shock this one and the reasoning is unkown... has Ray been made a scape goat for the recent indifferent form..? Ray Wilkins is probably the nicest bloke in footie never has a bad word to say about anyone and is a thoroughly nice chap !

llamedos wrote:

Not much notice taken of this ......a casualty of the ruthless Abramovich machine  

future_is_orange wrote:

Depending on the replacement I suppose it will encourage Chelski to be more attack minded - after all, Wilkins was renowned for never playing a forward pass in his entire career.

I think this weekends games for Man U and Arsenal are crucial. Both very tricky away matches which are must win games..drop points and i feel Chelsea may well start to go into overdrive and be out of sight.