As a new Premiership season draws ever closer one of the favourite pastimes of pundits and fans is to opine on who will be the first managerial casualty of the campaign. Alan Curbishley (West Ham), Kevin Keegan (Newcastle), Gary Megson (Bolton), Roy Hodgson (Fulham) an... Read More

Last Season – Finished 10th in the Premier League – 49ptsManager – Alan Curbishley INS:DF Holmar Orn EyjolfssonMF Valon Behrami – 10m USGK Jan Lastuvka – LoanST Balint Bajner – Undisclosed OUTS:FW Bobby ZamoraRB John PantsilFW Nolberto SolanoMF Fredrik Ljungberg Possibles:FW Eidur Gudjohnsen – BarcelonaLB Nicky Shorey – ReadingMF James Harper – ReadingMF Jimmy Bullard – FulhamGK Neil Alexander – RangersCB Mikael Silvestre – Man Utd What’s Left in the Kitty – 10m US What Lies Ahead:Aug 16 Wigan (H)Aug 23 Man City (A)Aug 30 Blackburn (H)Sep 13 West Brom (A)Sep 20  Newcastle (H)Sep 27 Fulham (A)Oct 4 Bolton (H) Possible Starting XI:GK Robert GreenRB Lucas NeillCB Matthew UpsonCB Anton FerdinandLB George McCartneyRMF Valon Behrami/Lee BowyerCMF Hayden Mullins/Kieron DyerCMF Mark Noble/Scott ParkerLMF Matthew EtheringtonFW Carlton Cole/Craig BellamyFW Dean Ashton How They’ll Stack Up:Alan Curbishley added some decent faces to the line-up last season – but due to injury issues we didn’t get a good look at Bellamy, Ljungberg, Parker and Dyer with Hammers.  Hopefully they can hold their fitness for most of the season this term – and if they do, look... Read More

Jonathan Wilson and the "Death Match"Curbishley and the Charlton syndrome. The ISL trial is underway in Switzerland.Johnny Giles thinks that the Italian game is in terminal d... Read More

Neophyte -  Question for all the Arsenal supporters and for Bobby, why did Arsenal not keep Baptista? Do they think Adebayor is better than the "Beast"? Bobby – Arsenal didn’t keep Baptista because apart from a couple of Carling Cup performances he didn’t play very well. Adebayor is quicker than Baptista, better in the air and is younger. Baptista is more versatile tha... Read More

An incredible number of postings this week - thanks as always - particularly for keeping the tone civil. For the other semi final I will post a couple of stories and open it up for your thoughts... Read More

Premiership and Championship teams take a break from league action this weekend as the focus turns to the third round of the FA Cup. While it is at this stage when most fans turn their attention to the oldest knock out competition i... Read More

Only one of the teams that finished 11th through 15th last season showed an improvement on the previous season. Even then, Fulham could only look to an improvement of one place from 13th to 12th and that was not... Read More