[Archived] Other Premier League Happenings

[Ricky]

Cheeky loan bid from Rovers for him in January when we're puching for champions league and spurs are relagation fodder

[Hughesy]

No thanks. He has burned his bridges when he hardly acknowledged our club for helping him get to where he is now.

We saved him, progressed his career and made him a better player, but he didn’t acknowledge it.

Enjoy spurs Bentboy!

[Wild Irish Rover]

Saw this on the BBC text commentary on the Spuds game yesterday.St Totteringham's Day.- gave me a chuckle..

Link sorted now...

I suspect St Totteringham's Day will fall early this season

[Al]

Link doesn't work.

[ABBEY]

No thanks. He has burned his bridges when he hardly acknowledged our club for helping him get to where he is now.

We saved him, progressed his career and made him a better player, but he didn’t acknowledge it.

Enjoy spurs Bentboy!

not often i agree ith you fella but stuff bents ,stuff spuds and stuff his drunken blackburn bashing.

[ultrablue]

No thanks. He has burned his bridges when he hardly acknowledged our club for helping him get to where he is now.

bottom of the league you mean?

man I love those comedy clubs

[Driftpeasant]

Saw this on the BBC text commentary on the Spuds game yesterday.St Totteringham's Day.- gave me a chuckle..

Link sorted now...

I suspect St Totteringham's Day will fall early this season

Do we have St. Walker's day, defined as the day when Burnley cannot possibly catch us? Or is that just every day?

[CrazyIvan]

Do we have St. Walker's day, defined as the day when Burnley cannot possibly catch us? Or is that just every day?

Yeah, it's the day we know they can't get promoted i.e. the first day of the new season!

[philipl]

Ok not Premier League but a Murray League latest score:

Brighton 3-2 Cheltenham L

Murray 1

Murray 7

Murray 47

...................Murray 2

...................Murray 45+2

[Grabbi Graeme]

Sunderland have took the lead against Arsenal, would be Arsenal's 3rd defeat this season

[ffan]

The sooner clueless Hodgson buggers off the better.

[Frisky Jim]

The sooner clueless Hodgson buggers off the better.

Playing players out of position by any chance?

[Hughesy]

Cracking comeback by the scousers - anyone else watch it? Hughes & Co booed off after leading 2-0 to lose 3-2 ha ha!

Skirtel looked a bad injury, broken leg surely!

[benlloninho]

Was it broken? I saw the slow motion replay and I thought he just twisted his knee. Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me, leg breaks make me feel pretty woozy.

Wow, didn't mean to rhyme like that.

[RoverRich]

Our draw against Hull looks a better result every week! Fair play to them, they are doing well and Geovanni was an inspired signing!

[92er]

There was an interesting article by Patrick Barclay in the Sunday Telegraph today with the headline " Govt must act now to avoid meltdown".

He showed a table, based on the 2006/7 finishing places to highlight the Premier League's top 10 debtors that also showed the annual wages bill. I show debt first, followed by the wages bill

MU £605m, £92m

Chelsea £620m, £133m

Liverpool £57m, £78m

Arsenal £268m, £90m

AV, £63m, £43m

Middlesborough £85m, £38m

Newcastle £69m, £62m

MC £103m, £37m,

WHU £142m, £44m

Fulham £182m, £35m

Apart from wondering if Platini will be able to introduce a level playing field, I was shocked at the total indebtness of the clubs, and surpried at the amounts owed by Middlesborough and Fulham.

[philipl]

There was an interesting article by Patrick Barclay in the Sunday Telegraph today with the headline " Govt must act now to avoid meltdown".

He showed a table, based on the 2006/7 finishing places to highlight the Premier League's top 10 debtors that also showed the annual wages bill. I show debt first, followed by the wages bill

Updating the figures-

MU £605m, £92m NOW £850m+ £110m

Chelsea £620m, £133m NOW £650m £160m But owner debt so can be cancelled

Liverpool £57m, £78m NOW £320m £90m with stadium project imploding

Arsenal £268m, £90m NOW £250m £100m debts linked to property and low interest rate bonds

AV, £63m, £43m But owner debt so can be cancelled

Middlesborough £85m, £38m But owner debt so can be cancelled

Newcastle £69m, £62m Mike Ashley found it was massively under-stated; NOW £150m,£80m

MC £103m, £37m, Also under-stated - what it is now is anybody's guess!

WHU £142m, £44m And Iceland is about to go completely bust taking several UK companies with it. Wages went up to £58m

Fulham £182m, £35m But owner debt.

Rovers NOW £0m, £40m

Apart from wondering if Platini will be able to introduce a level playing field, I was shocked at the total indebtness of the clubs, and surprised at the amounts owed by Middlesborough and Fulham.

This is the Patrick Barclay article.

Looking at it realistically, the Man U and Liverpool debts are enormous problems for their owners who might well take a deep bath when they fail to rollover their borrowings but the clubs would only struggle if the Government/UEFA suddenly move quickly to act on debt.

That would only happen if there are some spectacular bankrupcies. As things stand Hearts and West Ham (Barclay mentions Tevez as a prime case of the football authorities failing to regulate) could provide the spectacular crashes that change the climate. Poor old Sheff U might have won their case but never get their cash in the end.

[Rovermatt]

Awesome, awesome result at Spurs. Come on Bents, what's gone wrong eh?

[LeChuck]

Very poor goalkeeping from Friedel for Anelka's goal. He's always had a problem with pushing the ball back in to a dangerous area, he had two chances to push that to the side and messed it up both times.

[Flopsy]

I'm still trying to work out how Hughes could possibly question the sending off of that man Citeh player.

I am still laughing at the Spurs result.

[grizfoot]

Spurs and Citeh losing somewhat brightens up my otherwise pretty crappy weekend.

[Billy Castell]

I seriously hope someone pulls the plug on the Premiership (and the 'Champions' League). It's too shallow, unequal, bloated and rotten. If you take Hull's success out of the equation, there is more interest in the board rooms than on the pitches.

For example the BBC newspaper round up has as much on takeovers involving Everton and Newcastle, as transfers and normal stuff.

[Eddie]

We are a while from the transfer window, so news is bound to be a bit slow.

[philipl]

It will be interesting to see if Sepp Blatter's intervention will give cause for concern amongst prospective buyers of football clubs.

With all the other uncertainty swilling around, I doubt anybody is going to be buying football clubs at the prices the sellers hope for. There are going to be too many better bargains of all sorts lying around.

[Hughesy]

Uefa Cup seems to be getting alot more high profile, with much tougher teams in there:

Group A

Schalke 04

Paris St Germain

MANCHESTER CITY

Racing Santander

FC Twente

Group B

Benfica

Olympiacos

Galatasaray

Hertha Berlin

Metalist Kharkiv

Group C

Sevilla

Stuttgart

Sampdoria

Partizan Belgrade

Standard Liege

Group D

TOTTENHAM

Spartak Moscow

Udinese

Dinamo Zagreb

NEC Nijmegen

Group E

AC Milan

Heerenveen

SC Braga

PORTSMOUTH

Vfl Wolfsburg

Group F

Hamburg

Ajax

Slavia Prague

ASTON VILLA

MSK Zilina

Group G

Valencia

Club Brugge

Rosenborg

FC Copenhagen

Saint-Etienne

Group H

CSKA Moscow

Deportiva La Coruna

Feyenoord

Nancy

Lech Poznan