Pre-Season
14 July 2011 832 comments
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The pre-season has shifted into gear over the past 48-hours as some of the Premier League’s top sides begun their preparatory campaigns. Showpiece matches could be found across the globe with venues ranging from the shores of Malaysia, the United States of America and a barren training ground pitch in Cobham.

Both Arsenal and Liverpool played in Asia yesterday with youngsters Aaron Ramsey and Andy Carroll putting in the first eye-catching performances of the summer. Meanwhile, over the Atlantic, Man United started their stateside tour against New England Revolution and came out on top thanks to the intervention of their bench-warming strike duo – Michael Owen and Federico Macheda.

West Brom are also in the US and their defensive fragility was on show again as they fell foul of an audacious 90 yard goal in a 2-1 defeat to San Jose Eathquakes – Jerome Thomas fetching the Baggies goal.

Chelsea continue their relentless pursuit of the Luka Modric but playmaker Yossi Benayoun issued a timely reminder of his flair and talent, impressing in a behind closed doors friendly with a sumptuous double-flick lob as the Blue saw off Wycombe by a 3-0 margin. Sunderland and Fulham also had fixtures this last week and Cottagers are in action again tonight as they take on Crusaders in their UEFA Europa League second round qualification tie.

A reminder that full details of all these games can be found in our Pre-Season Form Guide linked at the top of your page as we track the form of players and teams going into the big kick-off.

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  1. Boom!!!
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 5 months ago

    NEW POST!

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  2. Soop
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 5 months ago

    Is it odd that:

    1: The people who worked at the NotW have been fired for something that happened before most of them worked there
    2: The woman who's fault it [probably] was, has been made to resign from an unrelated, different job, because of something she did 5 years ago

    Obviously there is the argument that she's is a morally inept cretin and so should not be in a position of power, but I think it's more of a "we don't like you very much, so you should resign".

    I find the symbolism and subsequent stigma of being forced to resign very strange. I doubt that happens very many places outside of Britain.

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    1. TommyK
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      • 16 Years
      14 years, 5 months ago

      She could potentially have faced criminal investigation, so it's hardly a surprise they dropped here in the end imo.

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    2. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
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      • 16 Years
      14 years, 5 months ago

      You have this so, so wrong ... 😐

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    3. Goodfish
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 5 months ago

      I think you miss the point of their play. It's all smoke and daggers. NotW knew their game was up a while ago, which is why Murdoch's gang was making noises about making The Sun a 7-days-a-week publication. The NotW is a sacrificial lamb - "Look, we stopped the rot at that paper, we're all nice and shiny new now...". Rebekah Brooks had to fall on her sword for Murdoch's sake. No doubt she will resurface a year or two down the line a la Peter Mandelson...It would just be nice if Murdoch's whole empire crumbled, and all those responsible were held accountable (Murdoch included). However, that's very unlikely...Look at all the deaths on Bliar and Bush's hands...What has been their punsihment?

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    4. Marknlard
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 5 months ago

      The NOTW staff weren't fired, their publication was pulled. That's different.

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  3. Soop
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 5 months ago

    Pomegranites are in fact, inside out. This is to deter predators from eating it's luscious skin.

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  4. Bouncebackability
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    • 16 Years
    14 years, 5 months ago

    Just logging in to the Metro game and are my eyes deceiving me or are we allowed a different formation this year 🙂 I swear there was only four available last time.

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  5. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 5 months ago

    RMT!!!

    Given/QPR
    Baines/Kompany/Clark/Hangeland/NTaylor
    NZogbia/Ramsey/Malouda/Dempsey/Sinclair
    Torres/Bent/Zamora

    about 5 mil over budget!

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