Premier League Round Up (Oct 3-4 2015)

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It’s mad, I’m writing about last weekend’s games but it feels like it was months ago as so much has happened this week. It’s weird watching MOTD and Brendan is still in charge of us, but the worst part of this is I’m having to watch all these jabroni teams who don’t have Jurgen Klopp as manager. Imagine following a team that doesn’t have Jurgen Klopp as manager? It must be miserable as shit. I’d pity the fools if they weren’t all bad “let’s sing about Steven Gerrard” type knobheads.*

* Crystal Palace being the one exception to that rule, but they have their own Mr Charismatic in charge and therefore don’t need any sympathy from anyone.

Anyway, the big story of the weekend before Brendan got the bullet was Chelsea’s continuing woes. Them losing 3-1 at home to Southampton was just fucking hilarious, but Mourinho’s interview afterwards took it a stage further. I’ll get to that in a sec, but first the game itself.

Chelsea took the lead with another flukey free-kick from that turd Willian. Four games in a row he’s scored from free-kicks, and two of them were meant to be crosses. That gave them the perfect start but they didn’t build on it and Southampton hit three goals without reply to pile the pressure onto a clearly rattled Mourinho.

While all the talk is about how suddenly shit Chelsea have become, let’s give some praise to Southampton, who were fucking ace. Sadio Mane has really stepped it up this year, he’s a real handful and has added end product to the nuisance value he brings. Loves a dive though doesn’t he? That might be why he was denied a clear pen in this one, if refs have been watching MOTD they’ll have his card marked. Pelle took his goal brilliantly and they could easily have had more than three as they blitzed Chelsea with quick counter attacks.

Matic was brought on at half time and was subbed soon after. I’m not sure that’s as big a deal and some are making it out to be. I know generally you don’t “sub a sub” as it’s deemed insulting to the player, but was this not just a case of sacrificing a holding midfielder for a striker when you’re 3-1 down? Not that I’m arsed, I hope there is more to it and that Matic downs tools like his mate Ivanovic who has almost overnight turned into possibly the worst player in the Premier League. He’s fucking horrific and it’s becoming a weekly highlight tuning into MOTD to see him getting savaged by the pundits. It’s almost like he’s deliberately being shit. Maybe he misses Eva? Hell, maybe they all miss Eva?

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[buster69]

Was it not Leon Barnett or something that complained about Suarez diving? Definitely wasn't Bassong anyway.

[Trumo]

I thought the guy's name was Barnett or Bennett or Burnett too. At that time all Norwich's players had names like Barnett, Bennett or Burnett. Except for Holt. And Hoolahan or course.

[Through Ball]

Yeah, pretty sure it was Leon Barnett. Piece of shit.

[Nunavut Patrick]

Nah it was Leon Spinks

[dave u]

I realised the next day it was Barnett and not Bassong as his name was mentioned on the radio. He got sent off or gave a pen away or something at the weekend playing for whatever lower league side he's at now.

 

Bassong defo did something though, he's in my bad books but I can't remember exactly why.