We Go Again! The 2014/15 Premier League Thread

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Missed the game today great result!

City have bought terribly since they won the title in 11/12, 100s of millions and no real certain starters or class players introduced.

They've prospered in a relative decline of the pl, picking up the top players from the non top 4 and the sub elite Europeans was good enough as a base but they didn't kick on and it has showed in Europe and this season.

6 wins in a row for United, city, Spurs and Liverpool in that run.

Top 4 all but secured, big test next week against chelsea.

[NickisBHAFC]

WHAT A SAVE!

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Is Rafael injured? Is there really no one who could be doing better than Valencia?

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Wilson or Januzaj should be coming on.

[Hammersmith harrier]

Out for the rest of the season, this is so painful to watch, genuinely think we're going to miss out on top 4.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Speroni gifts it to Fella

[Hammersmith harrier]

Young deserves that after toying with Ward for the last 5 minutes, praying to god we hold on to this now.

[NickisBHAFC]

Palace continuing to take the pi*s out of Brighton by doing an impression of us defending a cross.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Blind, Mata, Young and De Gea have played well. Fellaini done his job. The rest are painful to watch

[Hammersmith harrier]

Phew, getting there slowly but surely.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Huge 3 points. Ground out, some very professional ball keeping come the end. Mata my motm, just above De Gea and Young.

[Hammersmith harrier]

Carrick being injured alters everything; Young has less support down the left when Blind is in the middle, the service to Fellaini is both poor and from the wrong angle, the interplay between the three on the right is lost as the service to them is again slow. That all makes Rooney a passenger, the slow build up play gives the opposition hope on the counter too, if it's quick then space opens up. Hopefully Gundogan will help with that, I do like Blind as a player but the more I see him in central midfield the more I see him as a left back.

[wadey101]

Dolph is the biggest Man U fan I've ever seen. He can deny it as much as he wants but he loves man u

[Hero]

Dolph very much does not love Utd, if he does he keeps it exceptionally under wraps as he's ribbed me enough over the past few years.

[Hero]

I think it's more the ability to watch other teams and not be a dick about them.

[Crimey]

I think it's more the ability to watch other teams and not be a dick about them.

Unless it's Liverpool.

[Hero]

thats allowed though

[mystiroakey]

[FootballLight]

It hit his arm where's the debate?

Hardly blatant, some ref's wouldn't have given it....

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Dolph is the biggest Man U fan I've ever seen. He can deny it as much as he wants but he loves man u

They are my favourite of the "big" teams, admittedly, but I enjoyed their season of Moyes as much as anyone (although I felt for Moyes), and I detest many aspects of Manchester United. I adore watching Mata, Carrick and De Gea play and I'm a huge Rooney fan.

Arsenal make me purr on occasion but the weak underbelly grates on me. If Van Gaal becomes possession obsessed I will probably find myself enjoying their play less.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Hull are gone now - no way they win one of there final two

[Fernando]

Depends how bad Spurs want to avoid the Europa League....

[NickisBHAFC]

Annoying that Newcastle are staying up thanks to hull bottling it.

Bruce to leave and takeover at Newcastle?

Hopefully him and Dyche remain in the Prem next season.

[westisbest]

Hull are gone now - no way they win one of there final two

Lets hope not.

Although wouldn't surprise me if they beat spurs.

[westisbest]

Only need 1 more win Tim.
Not 2.

Lets make sure its saturday, then finish of Burnley.

Then take care of Arsenal in the cup and then its been a great season, well the last couple of months anyway.

[Hammersmith harrier]

Hull are gone now - no way they win one of there final two

We've lost to relegation threatened teams on the final day before Olly.

[Guest]

Annoying that Newcastle are staying up thanks to hull bottling it.

Not as annoying as Championship fans commenting in the PL thread

[westisbest]

Annoying that Newcastle are staying up thanks to hull bottling it.

Not as annoying as Championship fans commenting in the PL thread

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Hull are gone now - no way they win one of there final two

We've lost to relegation threatened teams on the final day before Olly.

I can't see you losing to Hull, draw at worst. They're an awful side are Hull, dreadful summer signings - why you'd sign Michael Dawson and Jake Livermore is truly beyond me, let alone sign Jake Livermore to play alongside Tom "I kick the ball hard so people rate me" Huddlestone

[westisbest]

Interesting, that they showed the bottom 7 on MOTD, and how much they had spent.

Burnley were the lowest spenders, then ourselves.

Think Hull had spent a sh1t load as had QPR.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

This will hopefully get ugly quickly

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Oh it is and it's glorious

[kingraf]

Thank you Aguerooooo. Pretty much confirmed the golden boot

[Hero]

Chelsea defenders have scored more goals in the league than Liverpool strikers, ouch.

[Crimey]

Liverpool playing alright here, Mikel is not very good, surely he'll finally leave this year?

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Laminated signs are the biggest threat facing football today

The state of Chelsea fans

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Brendan Rodgers brought Gerrard off so he could get an ovation.

Just ignore that bit where it was 1-1 and you needed to win then Brendan...

[Guest]

Lucas for Gerrard was mind-boggling. I thought Liverpool lacked any urgency in the last 10 mins, as for Sterling, he's just so average, if I was a Liverpool fan & City bid £30m, I'd snap their hand off, given his contract situation.

[Crimey]

Yeah it was disappointing to see a lack of urgency late on, especially after Rodgers did the opposite against QPR. It was a lack of belief, which is really disappointing to see, especially considering this is the club that so often achieves the unlikely.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Does it? Or just once?

[Crimey]

Does it? Or just once?

There's Istanbul obviously, but also the entire run, including the Olympiakos match. But then there's the last minute Gerrard goal in the FA Cup final. There's beating Real Madrid 4-0. Beating Ronaldinho led Barcelona 2-1 in 2007. More recently most of last season was very unlikely, such as thrashing Arsenal, Everton.

[Fernando]

5 - Arsenal have named the same team in five successive PL matches for the first time since January 1994.

[Fernando]

Swansea & Fabianski (We sold the wrong Pole) Are putting on a heroic display to stay 0-0.

[Fernando]

Arsenal 0-1 Swansea - Bafetimbi Gomis

Heroic defending works

[NickisBHAFC]

Really has been a cracking season for arsenal hasn't it.

[Mad for Chelsea]

goal-line tech works too

[Guest]

great for newcastle. if united can beat arsenal next weekend, it means united will still mathematically be in with a shot of 3rd when they play hull last game of season, i think. HH/CR is that correct?

[Fernando]

FT Arsenal 0-1 Swansea

Well deserved the way they defended. Wouldn't be a season without finishing 4th so had to drop form

[Hammersmith harrier]

You would be correct John but still expect to see McNair, Blackett, Wilson and a few others to play.

[Liam]

Cracking performance by Swansea. Monk for me is manager of the season. He's taken Swansea to another level and made them adaptable, as proven tonight. This is despite losing their top scorer in Bony half way through the season. See Wenger is complaining again about a team playing defensively against Arsenal. What does he expect? a team to come out all guns blazing and be picked apart by one of the best attacking line ups in the league? yeh, dream on. Well done the swans, just hope we can beat arsenal next week to give ourselves a chance of 3rd so we miss out on the qualifier.

[Azzy]

5 - Arsenal have named the same team in five successive PL matches for the first time since January 1994.  

Er my gerd. That's incredible. You'd have thought that Wenger went 38 times unchanged with his Grimandi-Garde team.

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