Premier League Round Up (Dec 30 - Jan 4 2017)

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That Sunderland result was obviously frustrating but going into the Festive fixtures I’d have been happy to come out of it in second place and still only trailing Chelsea by six points, so for us to still be second and having shaved a point off their lead is a more than satisfactory outcome. We’ve got Spurs to thank for that, but I’ll get to that in due course. 
 
I’ll get the weekend’s games out of the way first. The Blueshite played on Friday night at Hull. They probably thought that would spare them from the ignominy of being last on MOTD again, but it didn’t. Last again, as they should be. Losers. They needed a really late equaliser from breeze block head Barkley to spare their blushes after Hull had led twice through Dawson and my boy Snodgrass, who having previously been denied by the bar, sent a glorious free-kick fizzing into the top corner.
 
He’s got six goals so far this season and he really should be playing for a mid-table side rather then being in relegation battles year after year. Everton’s first equaliser came when Hull keeper Marshall punched into his own net from a corner. Otherwise known as “doing a Westerveld”. Maybe there was ice on the ball? 
 
Onto Saturday, and Chelsea made it 13 wins on the spin but they didn’t have it all their own way against Stoke and were twice pegged back before eventually winning 4-2. Cahill headed in from a corner to put them ahead but Martins Indi levelled just after the break.
 
Soft shite Motson debated with himself for a good 30 seconds whether the goal should be credited to Martins Indi or whether it was an own goal off a Chelsea defender, even though no cunt touched it and it went straight in. It’s 2017, why is this hysterical old fuck still on telly? 
 
 
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[UnwelcomeinPeru]

Burnley actually beat Sunderland 4-1, I believe Emre Can scored for the Mackems (I assume that's why you neglected to mention it). 

[DaveT]

Great stuff, as usual. No mention, though, of the laughable red card for the Bournemouth lad against Arsenal, given by the hapless Michael Oliver, who, in my book, called every big decision wrong. He wasn't helped by Xakha, who pulled a 'Phil Jones' and looked like he'd had his leg broken when he was barely touched, Amazingly, that's gone under the radar. But Arsenal players don't do that kind of thing, do they?!

[dave u]

I didn't watch the Bournemouth / Arsenal game and as there was no MOTD on Tuesday or Wednesday I was relying on highlights I found on the internet. I saw everyone on twitter going mad about the sending off, but when I saw it I could understand why Oliver thought it was worse than it was.

 

He got it wrong but it did look bad on first viewing.

[MafioSol]

Dave. HNY.

Luvin’ your reports. Luvin’ your ‘drop-da-mic’ endings.

Saddened that you’ve jumped on the media bandwagon (unlike you ;)) and labelled Mkhitaryan and Giroud’s recent efforts as ‘scorpion’.

I take issue with this as:

1. In truth, they were diving overhead back-heel flicks (easy for me to say)
2. A scorpion has only one tail to flick
3. The true and ‘original’ scorpion (both legs forming a flicking ‘tail’) was performed (and correctly executed) by Huguita.

Tomayto, Tomahto (as exotic fruit/vegetable venders would say).

Moving onto Giroud, during his equalising ‘scorpion’ dance his buffoonery did not sink in with me until I heard Charlie-Charlie and Merse slating him (and Arsenal) and now yourself.

What a plum! Pick the ball up, run back to centre-circle, and go for a winner like any other team with title credentials (and ungrateful fans) would! (Still didn’t prevent me from putting him in my FFL team ahead of next week though (*ahem*) …

Re Chelski’s loss at Spurs, it just goes to show how well we played at WHL earlier in the season. I’m ‘almost’ more disappointed not winning there then compared to the recent Sunderland result.

Roll on Old Trafford. I’d take a draw now, (a win - I’d rip your arms off!).

#YNWA
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