2012-13 EPL Thread

[Eastdog]

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Courtesy of BBC Sport here are the fixtures for the weekend coming up. I put the EPL fixtures up each week.


Saturday 25th August 2012 BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE

Swansea v West Ham 12:45 (9:45pm AEST)
Aston Villa v Everton 15:00 (12:00am AEST)
Man Utd v Fulham 15:00 (12:00am AEST)
Norwich v QPR 15:00 (12:00am AEST)
Southampton v Wigan 15:00 (12:00am AEST)
Sunderland v Reading 15:00 (12:00am AEST)
Tottenham v West Brom 15:00 (12:00am AEST)
Chelsea v Newcastle 17:30 (2:30am AEST)

Sunday 26th August 2012
BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE

Stoke v Arsenal 13:30 (10:30pm AEST)
Liverpool v Man City 16:00 (1:00am AEST)

[Twodogs]

Re: 2012-13 EPL Thread

Courtesy of BBC Sport here are the fixtures for the weekend coming up


Saturday 25th August 2012 BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE

Swansea v West Ham 12:45
Aston Villa v Everton 15:00
Man Utd v Fulham 15:00
Norwich v QPR 15:00
Southampton v Wigan 15:00
Sunderland v Reading 15:00
Tottenham v West Brom 15:00
Chelsea v Newcastle 17:30

Sunday 26th August 2012
BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE

Stoke v Arsenal 13:30
Liverpool v Man City 16:00

Off the top of my head that makes it around 10.30pm our time on sunday night. Or maybe 9.30pm.

[Eastdog]

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Off the top of my head that makes it around 10.30pm our time on sunday night. Or maybe 9.30pm.

10:30pm our time.

[Eastdog]

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Fulham have a longer break than us. This is a game as a Man United supporter that you have to been weary of as Fulham had a fantastic win last week but I think at home we should win as we have more quality.

[Topdog]

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Cazorla and Giroud will be handy up front also.

I don't think RVP's lose is going to make that much of a difference.

Hearing lots of Arsenal fans saying that. The word that describes it is deluded.

Replaced him with a guy that struggled in the only other big team he played for and an unproven Frenchmen. You will struggle to score goals this year.

[Twodogs]

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Hearing lots of Arsenal fans saying that. The word that describes it is deluded.

Replaced him with a guy that struggled in the only other big team he played for and an unproven Frenchmen. You will struggle to score goals this year.

Chef's a Chelsea fan.

[Eastdog]

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Ive also besides the UK time for this weeks matches I put our time (AEST) in brackets.

[Twodogs]

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Ive also besides the UK time for this weeks matches I put our time (AEST) in brackets.

That's great work-thanks for that.

[chef]

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Hearing lots of Arsenal fans saying that. The word that describes it is deluded.

Replaced him with a guy that struggled in the only other big team he played for and an unproven Frenchmen. You will struggle to score goals this year.

they've managed to pick up some decent players and i except them to grab another striker before the window closes. Llorente(spelling?) and sturridge(can't see him leaving) have been bandied around.

who's your team Topdog?

and I'll forgive you for calling me a arsenal fan.....only once.

[comrade]

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I've jumped off West Ham and jumped on the Southampton bandwagon this season. I love the story of their manager, Nigel Adkins; a no name player back in the day, a few years ago he was the physio for Scun-thorpe in League One until their manager was moved on and he was asked to stand in for the interim. He did a good job, got the gig full time and helped them get promoted to the Championship. Southampton (then in League One) came calling, he helped them get promoted to the Championship and then subsequently the Premier League back to back.

From League One physio to Premier League manager. Not bloody bad!

Their 3-2 loss against Man City was pretty enjoyable to watch, too.

[Topdog]

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they've managed to pick up some decent players and i except them to grab another striker before the window closes. Llorente(spelling?) and sturridge(can't see him leaving) have been bandied around.

who's your team Topdog?

and I'll forgive you for calling me a arsenal fan.....only once.

They won't get anyone else. Arsenal certainly won't be spending 25+m on Llorente.

Spurs fan here.

[Twodogs]

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They won't get anyone else. Arsenal certainly won't be spending 25+m on Llorente.

Spurs fan here.

I'm not taking the piss but how were your emotions during and after the Champions League final? It must have been a real kick in the guts to finish fourth and then have a spot in Europe pulled out from underneath you.

FWIW I'm getting a bit sick of constantly making the Champion's League and not winning any domestic silverware. As a club it seems we've lowered our sights and see qualifying for Europe as our primary focus instead of actually winning the Premier League or the FA cup. A decade ago we were on the same level as Man U-now we are happy to be on the same level as Liverpool and Newcastle. We've lost our way.

[Topdog]

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Didnt watch the final. It was destined to happen.

[Eastdog]

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Relieved Manchester United held on and got a 3-2 win over Fulham after being 1-0 behind. Its always nerve racking with a one goal lead. Its good to be on the board with our first 3 points of the campaign because a draw would put us further behind the early pace setters and in the EPL it is very important to get off to a good start. Van Persie, Shinji Kagawa and R.Silva were our goalscorers and for Fulham Damian Duff and a Nemanja Vidic own goal.

Other Results so far:

Swansea 3-0 West Ham
Aston Villa 1-3 Everton
Tottenham 1-1 West Bromwich Albion
Norwich City 1-1 QPR
Southampton 0-2 Wigan
Sunderland V Reading was cancelled
Chelsea 2-0 Newscatle

[chef]

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Another nice win and a good start to the season from Chelsea.

Torres getting in the goals again, he's looking like he's back in form. Of Chelsea's 8 goals Hazard has had the assist for 7 of them.