It’s back! We’re just one week away from the EPL big boys kicking off, but that doesn’t mean this weekend is footy-free. Far from it, in fact. Today and tomorrow bring a schedule bursting at the seams with awesomeness, including the Community Shield at 10am tomorrow.
We made it, folks. Soccer is back. It’s truly a wonderful thing.
Schedule after the jump. Norwich!
Championship (all kick-off 10am unless stated)
Cardiff City v. Sc**thorpe
Crystal Palace v. Plymouth Argyle
Derby County v. Peterborough
Leicester City v. Swansea
Preston North End v. Bristol City
QPR v. Blackpool
Reading v. Nottingham Forest
Sheffield Wednesday v. Barnsley
Watford v. Doncaster
West Brom v. Newcastle United (12.30pm)
League One (all kick-off at 10am)
Gillingham 1 – 0 Swindon (1st half)
Southampton 0 – 0 Millwall (1st half)
Brighton & Hove Albion v. Walsall
Bristol Rovers v. Leyton Orient
Carlisle v. Brentford
Charlton Athletic v. Wycombe
Leeds United v. Exeter City FC
MK Dons v. Hartlepool
Norwich City v. Colchester
Oldham v. Stockport
Southend v. Huddersfield
Yeovil Town v. Tranmere
Bundesliga (all kick-off at 9.30 unless stated otherwise)
Hertha Berlin v. Hannover
Borussia Dortmund v. Cologne
Werder Bremen v. Eintracht Frankfurt
Mainz v. Bayer Leverkusen
Nurnberg v. Schalke
1899 Hoffenheim v. Bayern Munich (12.30pm)
French Ligue 1 (all kick-off at 3pm)
AJ Auxerre v. Sochaux
AS Monaco v. Toulouse
Grenoble v. Marseille
Le Mans v. Lyon
Montpellier v. PSG
St. Etienne v. Nice
Stade Rennes v. Boulogne
Valenciennes v. AS Nancy Lorraine
Eredivisie
Ajax Amsterdam v. RKC Waalwijk (12.45pm)
Roda JC Kerkrade v. FC Groningen (1.45pm)
Coppa Italia – Round 1
Salernitana v. Benevento (2.30pm)
Sassuolo v. Alessandria (2.30pm)
Russian Premier League
FC Moscow v. FC Rubin Kazan (10.45am)
Spartak Nalchik v. Spartak Moscow (10.45am)
Kuban Krasnodar v. Saturn Moscow (1pm)
MLS
New England v. Los Angeles (6pm)
San Jose v. Columbus (8.30pm)
Real Salt Lake v. Seattle (9pm)
Colorado v. Chivas USA (9.30pm)
How many subs do you get in the CS?
“S”AF deploying the FIFA substitution technique. Let’s see if it works better than it did against ‘pool.
GET THE HELL IN! F-N LOVELY GOAL FROM DEFOE!
Ooh, classy from Olympiakos, as their captain comes in with both feet, studs up, on an engaged player. In a freaking friendly. Settle down, chief.
ROONEY!!!!!
Rooney through Owen. Just. F**king. Lovely.
Nice finish by Rooney
Actually through Giggs. Still, brilliant work.
Why is SAF dressed like Dwight Schrute?
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Earlier somebody said SAF looked like Sipowicz. But Dwight works too.
Michael Ballack is a first class POS.
Agreed. Ballack is a complete f**king a**hole.
All I can hope for is at least one woeful attempt from, well, anybody…
Lampard is a t**t.
that was s**tty
Shite effort from Giggs.
It is physically impossible for Spartak player to be classy about anything.
Wow. No chance for him, but Ben Foster looked terrible on Ballack’s kick.
I guess Ben didn’t bring his iPod.
Wow. All-time poor effort from Evra.
embarrassing PK from Evra.
Two of the worst penalties ever by us.
SWEAR I just saw Big Phil in the crowd.
Believe that’s the textbook definition of ‘bottling it’, Patrice.
and Autoglass settles into the bathroom for a 2-minute spell
see ya later fellas. f**k.
Well, that was fun while it lasted.
Thus dies the hope of a media created dodecahedrontuple.
NYK, any chance Toulouse drops their valuation of Sissoko a bit? They are wanting 20 mil+ for him.
Reigning PFA Player of the Year Ryan Giggs… Out-f**king-standing.
CHAMPIONS! Blue is the Colour…Football is the game!
;-)
Nice to shake the penno demon. I think that the Aneurism is going to be scheduling some penno practice.
So it seems it’s going to be harder for teams to capitulate to United with Vidic and VDS out for the first few games, but they’ll find a way Ian Malcolm style.
@phil – after yesterday I would say that they won’t go lower than 17-18 million. Not because of him (although he had a good game), but because of how much they need him
I could go without a ManU-Chelsea match-up for a few months now.
@NYK: Thanks. That means we’d have to sell to buy him, though Bentley may have written his own ticket out of London with his little mince down the tunnel. Prob have to sell both he and Pavs or Bale to finance a 17-18 mil move.
Agreed, EF.
@phil – probably, but you wouldn’t really be sad to see Bale go, would you?
I’m really on the fence about Bale. I don’t think he has much future as a fullback, but he could be a good one as a left-sided midfielder. If I’m really honest with myself though, it’s really only because he’s young. If they could get a decent enough fee, I’d drive him to the airport.
Phil, I have to agree with you about Bale. Definitely the best chance to succeed in midfield. I think they should give him one more season, although that’d reduce his fee even more if he wasn’t successful.
Lesson Number One: never trust someone named “Gareth.”
Lesson Number Two: sportsmanship, sportsmanship.
Nani dislocated his shoulder, ouch.
Georger- A-f**king-men to rule number 1