Premier League — Match Week 1

A few of these smart arse pundits and journalists tipping Frank for the sack and I think they should look a bit further down the East Lancs Road...

Still can't believe Chelsea signed Cucurella for 㿪M, after City offered 㿊M. Potter must still be laughing.

Ten Argh has ten days left.

Just seen the Man Utd score.

I'll watch the second half, see if they can claw something back from this game.

Two rather nice first-half goals for Patrick Gross and Brighton away at Old Trafford. I enjoyed them!

I think we're currently better than Man Utd.

Tremendous block by Sanchez to stop Rashford from scoring off a great Ronaldo cross!

Reminds me of the loyalty oaths campaigns in Catch-22.

Man Utd didn't have a clue how to break down Brighton's determined defence. Not much of a game to watch.

Yellow cards dished out for some minor offences with similar offences ignored, refs making their minds up to please themselves.

So now let's see Davey's knife...

Guardiola is quite contrary sometimes, he was willing to let Ake go a few weeks ago, now he's picking him ahead of Stones, which is the opposite to what he's done previously.

Now that's a scary Sky Specials stat:

Successful passes after 25 mins:

West Ham – 25

Man City – 198!!!

Get yer bloody knife out, Davey!!!

Surprising, Michael - but then, a quarter of City's have been from pass tennis, bit OTT at times.

So far I'd say City's balls/crosses into the box are lower standard than we showed yesterday.

Hmmm... so that's what "pass and move" looks like!

Pretty conclusive from Haaland. Not a lot you can do about that.

We're off and running, and Everton sit proudly in 15th place in the first Premier League Table of the season, well out of the relegation zone and just 3 points behind Champions Manchester City.

[Sorry, Danny, just couldn't resist!]

Haaland describing himself as “a bit shit”.

Funny how different players (Beattie for example) rate themselves.

Apologies for the delay. I'm on Texas time for the next couple of days. So expect random timings from me.

Man Utd are suffering for wreckless overspending on lesser players in the transfer market for several years after Ferguson left and Moyes choked and froze at the big gig.

God that all sounds familiar!

But we seem to be fixing our situation. Ten Haag has got a similar job on his hands to what Lampard inherited, that's for sure.

I'll take that, Michael. Even though I'm not looking at the table until December!!!