Weekend Ramblings

Well folks,

After a week of news revolving around international games, where tensions have run high, pundits have gone batshit crazy and somehow The Guardian didn’t run a piece on how to play Gerrard and Lampard in the same team, we arrive back to the normality of the Premier League.

Saturday afternoon sees the beginning of the eight-week comedy festival that could be Alan Shearer marching Newcastle into the Championship. Expect black armbands over bad, shiny shirts in the Match of the Day studio until ‘Big Al’ comes back.

We also have Mark Hughes contemplating the idea of dropping Robinho and Fulham attempting to keep up their record of taking points off the big four. This morning Stevie Me signed a new contract and having scored a hat trick in his last game does anyone else sense a red card/cruciate on the horizon? Well maybe just me and some other Liverpool fans attempting to reign in the thoughts of overtaking United.

Then comes Sunday as a wounded Unireh take on a near dead Villa, the home side lacking Rooney, Scholes, Vidic and (probably) Berbatov; the away side lacking confidence and any semblance of how to defend. It’s all go basically, and in between you should…

(a) watch this

(b) read this or this

(c) listen to this, or this, or this

Saturday

Arsenal v Man City: I fancy City to do what they did to Pool and grab a draw here, Dickie Dunne is back in form and they may get a boost from Robinho being dropped. Though then again they may get a boost from him being in the side. City are like a woman in a strop at present, you never know what feckin mood they’ll be in so best not to ask and just see what happens. 1-1.

Blackburn v Tottenham: Robbie Keane to rob a few more goals in this one. 1-3.

Bolton v Middlesbrough: Liquid football galore. Surely Boro have to win a game sometime? Surely? 0-1.

Fulham v Liverpool: The less I say, the less I feel I can jinx Pool so I’ll stop here. Well here – 0-2.

Hull v Portsmouth: Something big will happen here. An injury; a sending off or six; ten goals; a spitting free for all; Phil Brown sporting an Hawaiian shirt now the good weather is here – who knows but something will happen. I’ll go for 3-2.

Newcastle v Chelsea: Goin down, goin down, goin down! Kriss Kross will make ya Jump Jump! The Shearer factor kicks in. 0-3. How long will it take ‘the best fans in the world’ to boo the manager? I’ll say half time.

West Brom v Stoke: Insert cartoons here. 0-0.

West Ham v Sunderland: ‘Sundlund’ need points bad, West Ham have gone off the boil. Logic says a draw. I say a draw. 2-2.

Sunday

Everton v Wigan: More cartoons, whoopee. 2-0.

Man Utd v Aston Villa: Villa have a shocking record at Old Trafford, there can be only one prediction despite my allegiances and the home team’s suspensions. 1-0 with a 76^th minute goal, if only to tease the rest of us with hope. Oh how I hate Man United.

On that bombshell, have a good one folks, JJ