Premiership
Transfer round up 22/8/08
Plenty of transfers to catch up on this week as the transfer window nears its final week with the shock move being Arsenals swoop for Manchester United full back Mikael Silvestre. Beyond Arsene Wengers love for everything french the whole world is scrathcing their head trying to come up with a good reason why Wenger [...]
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Manchester United v Newcastle video highlights 17/8/08
Manchester United’s title defense got off to a shaky start as they dropped 2 points at home to a resurgent Newcastle side who they beat 6-0 in the corresponding fixture last season. United were without Ronaldo and Tevez and their attack was suitably numb with Rooney looking unlikely to breach a new look Newcastle defence [...]
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Aston Villa v Manchester City video highlights 17/8/08
Aston Villa stormed past Manchester City in a 6 goal second half shoot out at Villa park thanks largely to a Gabriel Agbonlahor hat trick. City had lost highly rated Bulgarian striker Valeri Bozhinov in a freak accident in the warm up which will now see him miss another six months of his fledgling Premier [...]
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Chelsea v Portsmouth video highlights 17/8/08
Chelsea romped to an emphatic home win over FA cup holders Portsmouth in their first competitive game under new boss Luiz Felipe Scolari. Pompey boss Harry Redknapp chose to field an attacking 4-4-2 formation partnering new signing Peter Crouch with England striker Jermain Defoe in what turned out to be a costly opening day gambit. [...]
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Hull City v Fulham video highlights 16/8/08
Hull City marked their first ever top flight game in their 104 year history with a win over Roy Hodgson’s new look Fulham side. Seol Ki Hyeon put Fulham ahead with an excellent leap and well executed header before Hull drew level through Brazilian Geovanni who now holds an amazing record of having scored in [...]
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Middlesbrough v Tottenham video highlights 16/8/08
Tottenham were expected to steamroll a young Middlesbrough team at the Riverside stadium but Spurs new signings failed to live upto the hype and Juande Ramos’ decision to leave Dimitar Berbatov on the bench soon seemed foolish. Boro had a perfectly good goal ruled out early in the first half after Wheater had headed in [...]
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Everton v Blackburn video highlights 16/8/08
Paul Ince ended Blackburns 8 games winless streak against the toffees scoring a shock opening day victory over Everton at goodison park. The game was one of the most thrilling openers to the new EPL season seeing 5 goals netted in a game that see sawed one way then the other. Rovers had taken an [...]
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Arsenal v West Brom video highlights 16/8/08
Samir Nasri marked his Premier League debut with an early goal as Arsenal yet again started another season with another home win. The fixtures computer is very kind to Arsenal on the opening day sending them out of north London only 4 times in the history of the Premier League and often pitching them against [...]
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Sunderland v Liverpool video highlights 16/8/08
Fernando Torres was the difference between the 2 sides as Liverpool travelled to Sunderland on the opening day of the new Premier League season. The game had looked like heading towards a goalless draw when the new strike partnership of Keane and Torres botched the best chance of the game. Gordon had agilily reacted to [...]
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Premier League results 17/8/08
Sunday saw three games in the opening weekend of the new Premier League season as champions Manchester United and runners up Chelsea both got their seasons of the ground at home. We have all the results and goalscorers here.
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