The Barclays Premier League Thread 2014/2015

[Hobo]

Apparently Simon Mingolet has kept more clean sheets than De Gea, Courtois, Lloris, Szczesny and Joe Hart!

[Lineker]

Hope you all like Alan Shearer. Not only is he a pundit on MOTD tonight but he's also on the Goals on Sunday sofa tomorrow morning!

[Baddar]

Goals on Sunday have their own soda? UNBELIEVABLE!!

[Lineker]

Bloody autocorrect...

[Baddar]

Should have left the typo there. I would have got likes. :/

[Lineker]

Doubt it.

[stokeriño]

Quality journalism from The Star. The caption to this photo is "Chelsea fans blast shameless Lampard".

I wonder if there might not be any REALLY OBVIOUS CLUES that indicate that they aren't Chelsea fans at all...

[Lineker]

journalism from The Star.

[stokeriño]

I know, I know...

I can't decide whether it would be worse if they were purposefully ignoring those obvious clues on the basis they expect no readers to notice...OR if they were too dimwitted to have noticed themselves when they put the article together. Or indeed, which of those two is most likely.

[Plubby]

Quality journalism from The Star. The caption to this photo is "Chelsea fans blast shameless Lampard".

I wonder if there might not be any REALLY OBVIOUS CLUES that indicate that they aren't Chelsea fans at all...

Ahh but the guy is wearing a jacket with a Chelsea logo, so clearly they are Chelsea fans trying to LOOK LIKE MC fans so that Chelsea fans get away with this blameless.

Checkmate.

[Adam]

Ridicule the Star for that all you like, but I noticed in a BBC article on Mourinho which talked about Lampard's return used that "shameless" banner in the same sentence as a Chelsea fan calling him a traitor. Didn't outright say that it was Chelsea fans who made the banner but implied it enough to emphasise the point.

[stokeriño]

Ahh but the guy is wearing a jacket with a Chelsea logo, so clearly they are Chelsea fans trying to LOOK LIKE MC fans so that Chelsea fans get away with this blameless.

Checkmate.

Those stewards are sly bastards, I'll admit.

[Plubby]

omg it comes from the highest levels!

[Lineker]

The teams are out and it looks like Olivier Giroud will lead the line for Arsenal, who include new signing Gabriel on the bench. Villa also have their new signing, Scott Sinclair, in their matchday squad if not the starting line-up.

Arsenal: Ospina, Bellerin, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Coquelin, Ramsey, Walcott, Cazorla, Ozil, Giroud.

Subs: Szczesny, Gibbs, Gabriel, Rosicky, Flamini, Chambers, Akpom.

Aston Villa: Guzan, Hutton, Okore, Clark, Richardson, Delph, Gil, Sanchez, Cleverley, Benteke, Weimann.

Subs: Sinclair, Baker, Bacuna, Agbonlahor, Westwood, Cissokho, Given.

Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)

[FLiam]

Scott Sinclair is number 9.

Gross.

[brenchill]

Scott Sinclair is number 9.

Gross.

Beats the invisible Helenius.

[stokeriño]

Scott Sinclair is number 9.

Gross.

No number 9 will ever top Khalid Boulahrouz.

[FLiam]

Scott Sinclair is number 9.

Gross.

No number 9 will ever top Khalid Boulahrouz.

Hands down the worst.

[Lineker]

http://www.thebesteleven.com/2013/09/premier-league-number-nines.html

Francis Jeffers. Steve Sidwell. Steve Marlet. Facundo Sava. Orlando Sa. Emile Mpenza. Valeri Bojinov. Ricky van Wolfswinkel. Grzegorz Rasiak. Roman Bednar. Ilan. Andreas Cornelius. Also all good shouts.

[brenchill]

Didn't Daniel Nardiello once have the Man Utd #9? He know he did on CM4.