Kenny Dalglish Won't Be Delivering the Module: English Premiership 2011-12

Adebayor looks like he wants it.

He usually does, at first

Anyone watch Arsenal?

I did, they weren't great.

Flatmate was. Said Swansea had much the better of the second half

Single goal from a goalie(?) error against the might of Swansea doesn't sound too hot

very thrilling ending at the emirates. great pressure from swansea and graham nearly made it 1-1 with a volley but it went just above the bar. arteta looked good though, loss of cesc hardly the issue.

i haven't seen any stats but feeling is swansea had more shots on goal, at least in the second half?

RVP missed at least one chance he'd normally put away. They sat deeper in their own half than usual and shifted the balance of their offense toward counterattacking. Benayoun looked good when he came on late, I think what he provides is going to be needed more than Arteta.

lovely one-touch stuff for Aguero's 2nd today

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/sergio-aguero-2-wigan-15390661/

The video on 101gg suggests Petrov's goal was the most nondescript 30 yarder ever

Well we had a pretty decent spell after that first goal. ;_;

Uh, is it just going to go on like this all season? City could regret not taking proper advantage of Wigan earlier.

Hernandez's movement really is something else. Love this team right now

^ indeed. This has been a fantastic start to the season.

rampant... like chelsea at the beginning of last season

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55282000/jpg/_55282804_manutd.jpg

Who's that lass second from the left?

oh my... need a GIF of anderson's no-look pass just then

you can tell he feels sexy again
― r|t|c, Monday, 22 August 2011 20:24 (Yesterday)

i'm going to get a pumping in the fantasy football this week. no outfield man u players. no kun. fucking asamoah gyan in my team :/

got aguero as captain, rooney as vice

am a dick

Kun was such a done deal this week

All of my other players have done fuckall so I'm gonna be at the bottom of the Kun pile, thanking God that I'm not one of the hapless No Kun guys but wistfully wondering what might of been

This Utd team is just fucking riotously entertaining

For such a talented player, Nani can be a frustrating twat at times.

ferguson is clearly in bed with the devil. maybe he is the devil. there's no other explanation for how the players he has keep doing things like this.

I think i love Phil Jones

otm

Cleverly's foot possibly broken, Davies you cunt

I don't think I can remember a better start to the season (for United). I don't mean statistically (although four wins and eight-six goals or whatever is pretty impressive), just the style, the way everything seems to be clicking. I can remember we won the first ten games in 1985, but none of it was televised so I have no idea what that looked like. Scoring 4 goals in the opening 20 minutes against Fulham in 2006 was damn good, but I can't remember what happened after that.

Infostrada Sports on Twitter: "Wayne Rooney becomes the 4th player in Premier League history to score consecutive hat tricks after Les Ferdinand, Ian Wright and Didier Drogba.

OptaJoe on Twitter: "18 - Man Utd have now broken the PL record for the most goals scored after four games of the season (18). Extraordinary."

Agreed NBS, and i don't think it's a coincidence that Berbatov isn't getting in the team.

Bit of a shame, that. Still, at least Owen's not playing.

city are gonna walk this aren't they?

need to see them against someone decent

tbh i think it's hoovering up points against the 14 other teams that'll push them over the line, obv premature but it's looking like the best 2 horse race in ages.

Since last year in Spain, the way things are going.

Two things are interesting me underneath:

• how long can Chelsea keep going? If they can keep winning, and then eventually do click as avb prods around, we may get a three-horse race yet.
• how good are Stoke and what can they do? Liverpool pummelled them a bit today but they were strong enough to survive reasonably well. You can see them beating any of the 'other fourteen'. Are they actually top six contenders?

stoke are an absolute nightmare to play. i think a lot of the coverage of DIRTY DIVING CHEATS masks the fact that the likes of stoke get away with a hell of a lot of nasty, snidey bullying and niggling. shawcross, jeez... to think we were linked with that fucker.

was last year in spain a 2 horse race? i should pay more attention but from a distance it didn't really feel like real got barca off the bridle.

I didn't see the Spurs game but this is a strange pattern of play for a central striker, must have been interesting to watch.

Barcelona dropped points in the fall iirc and had to chase for a while.

There were four points in it but Real didn't get close to Barca in the games between them.

barca didn't run away with it by any means. i expect the same this season.

Well Real have taken the advantage today. Just about

ade trying hard to please by the looks of it, blimey. xp not that barca ran away with it but just had the feel of NEVER IN DOUBT. a bit like liverpool 08/09 ;_;

Jeez Louise, I can't believe people are making this into a two horse race already. There's still 34 games to play. I can totally see Man City disintegrate later on this season due to having a shit coach and not being as cunning and automatic as ManU, say. If Chelsea keep hanging on they are well in this still.

And don't rule out Wolves ffs.

Pundits giving it the 2 horse race theory already are quite funny.

To be fair it was obviously a three-horse race before the season started, calling it two-horse now is really no more than saying Chelsea ain't all that.

i'm no pundit.

Chelsea ain't all that.

They're still picking up the points. And last season their form was insanely erratic: I don't think I've ever known a team go from being so dominant to so shit (and then sort themselves out again). There's no reason to think they'll be any more consistent this season - who knows what they'll be playing like in a few months' time?

As long as they keep Torres on the bench eh?

how was meireles, anybody?

i wasn't thinking of pundits on here so much as professionals. but no way are Chelsea write-offable yet and we've seen teams go from unstoppable to stuck in a rut season in season out.