Thu 17 Aug 06
When Saturday Comes…
Sky Sports has its preview of the upcoming English Premier League season. Although we had that little tournament in Germany to distract us, it’s high time to get back into things. Can’t wait!
Sky picks no Manchester clubs to finish in the top 3 spots, btw.
As for Everton, Sky foresees an 8th place finish. That’s about right. If you polled most Evertonians, including David Moyes, I bet they would be happy with that. The big anticipation for Toffee fans is how AJ will do ~ we wanna see that hamburger chomp or whatever he does when he scores (anything beats Robbie Keaneian rolls and fist thrusts, if you ask me). I’m interested in seeing what happens at the back — David Weir has the captancy, but will we see youth and strength of Joseph Yobo and Joleon Lescott paired together. Nuno Valente had a solid World Cup and should get off to a good start (he looked a bit shaky at the outset of last season).
Does anyone else think Kuyt is a bit overrated? I just have a feeling he won’t do much this year.
This Saturday, Canadians can see the Reds/Blades, Magpies/Wigan, and Bolton/Spurs on Rogers Sportsnet. As far as I can tell, there’s nothing lined up on Fox Sports World Canada; there must be a Bolivia 2nd division playoff match on or something.
Mike C.
If the Blades want to shut down Lurch as a scorer, why not just put in the goal end some angry Yorkshire peasants kitted with pitchforks and flaming torches? Works in the movies,from what I can tell.
BTW the FWSC coverage of EPL is on Sundays; they do Bundesliga on Saturday. It’s GolTV that’s got the Bolivian rights nailed down.
In my local cable listings, they had an Arsenal which I didn’t think was scheduled, so I thought they were running something from last season.
Anyway, I just logged on for an edit; was sitting here and realized I was wrong about the top 3 stuff! D’oh!