Apologies for the late post
OK week 2 Saturday started with the North East or derby between Newcastle United and Sunderland. Although Sunderland had most of the possession it was Newcastle United who would end up the victors with a 1-0 win thanks to a free kick by Richard Taylor in the 62nd minute. Arsenal's poor start continued as they went down 2-0 to Liverpool at the Emirates stadium. Wojcich Szczesny was forced into an Andy Caroll save in the first half and despite a few chances it was Liverpool with an own goal by Arron Ramsey and Luiz Suarez latching on a calamitous defence to take the points. Also new player Emmanuel Frimpong was sent off Arsenal already with two red cars this season. Aston Villla managed a 3 -1 over Blackburn Rovers with goals from Gabriel Agbonlahor,Emille Hesky and Darren Bent. Morten Gamst Pedersen scored for Blackburn Rovers. Queens Park Rangers got their first victory in the Premiership the first since the 1995/96 season with a 1-0 win over Everton at Goodison Park Tommy Smith shooting the ball into the corner of the net in the 33rd minute. Despite a few chances including a header from Tim Cahill hitting the bar in the first half it was a frustrating afternoon for Everton. Swansea City grabbed their first point at home in the premiership with a win over Wigan Athletic. A penalty save from Michel Vorm who saved from Ben Watson secured the point. The evening match saw a 2 - 1 win for Chelsea over West Bromwich Albion but it was West Brom. who would score first with a goal from Shane Long. However Chelsea upped gears in the second half and goals from Nicholas Anelka and Florent Malouda secured the win.
Sunday saw 3 games first Norwich City agonisingly missed out on 3 points as Stoke City grabbed a late equaliser Norwich had gone in front from Ritchie Da Laet in the 37th minute before Kenwyne Jones' goal in the 92nd minute. Wolverhampton Wanderers managed a 2- 0 win over Fulham with goals from Kevin Doyle and Matthew Jarvis.
Manchester City managed a 3-2 victory over Bolton Wanderers it was Manchester City who scored 2 goals first from Silva and Gareth Barry before Ivan Klasnic replied for Bolton Edwin Dzeko made it 3-1 on 47 minutes before Kevin Davies pulled a goal back on 63 minutes.
Monday night saw a 3- 0 win for Manchester United over Tottenham Hotspu.r TottenhamHotspur held Manchester United in the first half but goals from young England player Danny Welbeck plus an Anderson goal from a Tom Cleverly flick and a Wayne Rooney header gave Manchester United victory.
Wednesday 24 August 2011
Tuesday 16 August 2011
Premiership Review Week 1
Hopefully I'll remember to do this each week. At least something else to talk about after all this is an experiment.
Well what a baptism of fire for QPR a 4-0 defeat by Bolton Wanderers and a bizarre second goal which was deflected by Daniel Gabbidon not helping matters, other goals were scored by Gary Cahill, Ivan Klasnic and Fabrice Muamba QPR did score but it was disallowed. Plus a sending off for Clint Hill before the games conclusion Elsewhere Norwich City fared better against Wigan Athletic with a 1-1 draw a Ben Watson penalty followed by a Wes Hoolihan goal just before half time sealing matters. Aston Villa and Fulham could only manage a draw at Craven Cottage Marc Albrighton and Stilliyan Petrov amongst the better chances for Aston Villa, Damien Duff Dickson Ethu and Clint Dempsey with some of the chances for Fulham.
Liverpool managed to throw away a chance of victory at Anfield a missed penalty by Luis Suarez didn't help although he did make up for things by latching on to assist to make it 1 -0. However Sebastian Larsson equalised in the second half. Two of last seasons struggler's Blackburn Rovers and Wolverhampton Wanderers met at Ewood Park a 2 -1 win for Wolves. Goals from Formica for Blackburn Rovers and Fletcher and Ward for Wolves.
Newcastle United and Arsenal could only muster a point A point gained for Newcastle United you would feel given the struggles for Arsenal not helped by the loss of Cesc Fabrigas to FC Barcelona and Samir Nasri's future in doubt. Also the main talking point being new signing Gervinho who Joey Barton had felt slapped him after claims that Gervinho had gone down for a dive to claim a penalty and the conduct that Joey Barton in which the situation developed. There was also a claim by Barton for a foul by Alex Song earlier in the match.
Sunday saw what would be seen as a great result for Stoke City as they drew with Chelsea at the Britannia Stadium A game with few chances saw Fernando Tores being Chelsea's best player There was also an appearance for Jonathan Woodgate who has come over various career threatening injury's.
Champions Manchester United manged a win over West Bomwich Albion at the Hawthons with Goals from Wayne Rooney an equaliser by Shane Long capitlising on new signing David de Geas mistake in the first half before Ashley Young shot and the ball deflected off Steven Reid.
Monday night saw Swansea City making there Premiership debut as they took on Manchester City at the Etihad stadium. Swansea city gave a good account of themselves in the first half but the second half Manchester City upped the gears and the introduction of Sergio Aguero who scored two goals along with Edwin Dzeko and David Silva gave Manchester City into a 4 - 0 win.
Sadly Tottenham Hotspur against Everton had to be postponed owing to last weeks rioting.
Well what a baptism of fire for QPR a 4-0 defeat by Bolton Wanderers and a bizarre second goal which was deflected by Daniel Gabbidon not helping matters, other goals were scored by Gary Cahill, Ivan Klasnic and Fabrice Muamba QPR did score but it was disallowed. Plus a sending off for Clint Hill before the games conclusion Elsewhere Norwich City fared better against Wigan Athletic with a 1-1 draw a Ben Watson penalty followed by a Wes Hoolihan goal just before half time sealing matters. Aston Villa and Fulham could only manage a draw at Craven Cottage Marc Albrighton and Stilliyan Petrov amongst the better chances for Aston Villa, Damien Duff Dickson Ethu and Clint Dempsey with some of the chances for Fulham.
Liverpool managed to throw away a chance of victory at Anfield a missed penalty by Luis Suarez didn't help although he did make up for things by latching on to assist to make it 1 -0. However Sebastian Larsson equalised in the second half. Two of last seasons struggler's Blackburn Rovers and Wolverhampton Wanderers met at Ewood Park a 2 -1 win for Wolves. Goals from Formica for Blackburn Rovers and Fletcher and Ward for Wolves.
Newcastle United and Arsenal could only muster a point A point gained for Newcastle United you would feel given the struggles for Arsenal not helped by the loss of Cesc Fabrigas to FC Barcelona and Samir Nasri's future in doubt. Also the main talking point being new signing Gervinho who Joey Barton had felt slapped him after claims that Gervinho had gone down for a dive to claim a penalty and the conduct that Joey Barton in which the situation developed. There was also a claim by Barton for a foul by Alex Song earlier in the match.
Sunday saw what would be seen as a great result for Stoke City as they drew with Chelsea at the Britannia Stadium A game with few chances saw Fernando Tores being Chelsea's best player There was also an appearance for Jonathan Woodgate who has come over various career threatening injury's.
Champions Manchester United manged a win over West Bomwich Albion at the Hawthons with Goals from Wayne Rooney an equaliser by Shane Long capitlising on new signing David de Geas mistake in the first half before Ashley Young shot and the ball deflected off Steven Reid.
Monday night saw Swansea City making there Premiership debut as they took on Manchester City at the Etihad stadium. Swansea city gave a good account of themselves in the first half but the second half Manchester City upped the gears and the introduction of Sergio Aguero who scored two goals along with Edwin Dzeko and David Silva gave Manchester City into a 4 - 0 win.
Sadly Tottenham Hotspur against Everton had to be postponed owing to last weeks rioting.
Wednesday 10 August 2011
Where is this country going 2?
Given how angry I feel about the way things have gone I feel compelled to write a second part to this post.
The supposed mayor of London has finally arrived and unsurprisingly talking to the local residents in Croydon was out of his depth all I seem to remember is Boris and his broom. I suppose David Cameron had to say something outside Downing Street but lets get real how is there going to be proper justice done when the prisons are full and the root cause is not being addressed.
I hear rightful condemnation of this scum, but I also ask what is being done to prevent this developing further. Has it not been obvious for some time with the constant stabbings and shootings that have taken place that there are underlying issues.
I also wonder what the point is of having community forums when residents and citizens views don't seem to be taken account. In fact it seems like this is becoming a tick box exercise.
Have many of these policy makers or influential people ever had a chance to visit these deprived areas and have they bothered to listen to these residents properly instead of pretending to listen and then ignoring the views.. There have been more mindless attacks in Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Liverpool and even in other towns including Cheltenham for goodness sake.
I along with many law abiding residents young and old all races are fed up with having our shops and services being denied to us because these scum have taken advantage of a vacum which has been left by a government which talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. All I have ever seen or heard from successive governments are sticking plaster solutions including ASBO's what the heck were they all about.
What also gets me is why senior bankers or politicians seem to get away or get light prison sentences for what I see is theft of ordinary tax papers money but yet if the ordinary public was to do the same they would get severe sentences.
Yesterday where I live in London there were shops and services closing at 6 p.m. because of advice to be careful. I ask what sort of country has been allowed to develop.
My heart goes out to the residents and small business owners who have lost everything because of moronic scum who have dumped on the doorstep.
Apologies if this blog has gone in different directions but I am extremely angry that this ticking time bomb was allowed to explode.
The supposed mayor of London has finally arrived and unsurprisingly talking to the local residents in Croydon was out of his depth all I seem to remember is Boris and his broom. I suppose David Cameron had to say something outside Downing Street but lets get real how is there going to be proper justice done when the prisons are full and the root cause is not being addressed.
I hear rightful condemnation of this scum, but I also ask what is being done to prevent this developing further. Has it not been obvious for some time with the constant stabbings and shootings that have taken place that there are underlying issues.
I also wonder what the point is of having community forums when residents and citizens views don't seem to be taken account. In fact it seems like this is becoming a tick box exercise.
Have many of these policy makers or influential people ever had a chance to visit these deprived areas and have they bothered to listen to these residents properly instead of pretending to listen and then ignoring the views.. There have been more mindless attacks in Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester, Liverpool and even in other towns including Cheltenham for goodness sake.
I along with many law abiding residents young and old all races are fed up with having our shops and services being denied to us because these scum have taken advantage of a vacum which has been left by a government which talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. All I have ever seen or heard from successive governments are sticking plaster solutions including ASBO's what the heck were they all about.
What also gets me is why senior bankers or politicians seem to get away or get light prison sentences for what I see is theft of ordinary tax papers money but yet if the ordinary public was to do the same they would get severe sentences.
Yesterday where I live in London there were shops and services closing at 6 p.m. because of advice to be careful. I ask what sort of country has been allowed to develop.
My heart goes out to the residents and small business owners who have lost everything because of moronic scum who have dumped on the doorstep.
Apologies if this blog has gone in different directions but I am extremely angry that this ticking time bomb was allowed to explode.
Tuesday 9 August 2011
Where is this country going?
Well what happy times this country is in not. After the events of the past few days in London of feckless youngsters who probably wouldn't know what manners or indeed the person who has been shot it brings into focus the idea of the supposed "Big Society"
Now as far as I understand the "Big Society" was supposed to be a government initiative to encourage others in communities to help others.
The will is there to help but where are the resources. Already a centre in North London known as South Hampstead Life Long Learning where I presently help members of the community does not know if it will be able to carry on when it resumes in September after the summer term. due to the local borough Camden making huge cuts to services.
Before that I actually worked in a Community Centre in West Hampstead where again I helped people with computer lessons, assisting those who had never had experience of using computers, I also did general administrative duties as well.
The social cohesion that was created by running these courses cannot be measured. In fact far more was done to engage these communities then the claptrap that this present government witters on about. services
There are other schemes from around the UK which have also done similar initiatives ranging from doing simple computer programs such as Microsoft Word or being able to use to World Wide Web to access areas such as benefits advice or looking for social housing or even being able to use e-mail to contact relatives.
But how are communities meant to be providing these schemes when libraries and voluntary groups in the third sector are facing cuts. Premises that could be used to provide services are left unused as discretionary rate relief and peppercorn rents are effectively done away with, crippling. these communities.
I wonder if we have gone back to the 1980's although too young to remember the events of Brixton, Toxteth or St. Pauls to mention just a few areas effected by rioting I can remember bits of what I saw as a youngster.
Whilst the events of the weekend have been caused by yobbos with no manners I feel that this has been a ticking time bomb waiting to happen. I ask what can be done to reform these ...... well you decide what to call them. It is all very well to rightly criticize them but there must be a way of reforming them seeming as the old methods cannot be used, mind I am not sure that those methods would work.
By the way I wonder if it was worth Boris Johnson coming back or indeed Nick Clegg visiting Tottenham, still just a thought.
Welcome to the "Big Society" every one and given the way things are going this is great for the UK isn't it, God help us all. Still what do you expect from spin doctors and some politicians chasing votes thinking that there more important than other ordinary folk.
Mind on a positive note at least the people in the communities affected are getting together to clear things up people who have far more initiative then these supposed leaders of the UK.
Now as far as I understand the "Big Society" was supposed to be a government initiative to encourage others in communities to help others.
The will is there to help but where are the resources. Already a centre in North London known as South Hampstead Life Long Learning where I presently help members of the community does not know if it will be able to carry on when it resumes in September after the summer term. due to the local borough Camden making huge cuts to services.
Before that I actually worked in a Community Centre in West Hampstead where again I helped people with computer lessons, assisting those who had never had experience of using computers, I also did general administrative duties as well.
The social cohesion that was created by running these courses cannot be measured. In fact far more was done to engage these communities then the claptrap that this present government witters on about. services
There are other schemes from around the UK which have also done similar initiatives ranging from doing simple computer programs such as Microsoft Word or being able to use to World Wide Web to access areas such as benefits advice or looking for social housing or even being able to use e-mail to contact relatives.
But how are communities meant to be providing these schemes when libraries and voluntary groups in the third sector are facing cuts. Premises that could be used to provide services are left unused as discretionary rate relief and peppercorn rents are effectively done away with, crippling. these communities.
I wonder if we have gone back to the 1980's although too young to remember the events of Brixton, Toxteth or St. Pauls to mention just a few areas effected by rioting I can remember bits of what I saw as a youngster.
Whilst the events of the weekend have been caused by yobbos with no manners I feel that this has been a ticking time bomb waiting to happen. I ask what can be done to reform these ...... well you decide what to call them. It is all very well to rightly criticize them but there must be a way of reforming them seeming as the old methods cannot be used, mind I am not sure that those methods would work.
By the way I wonder if it was worth Boris Johnson coming back or indeed Nick Clegg visiting Tottenham, still just a thought.
Welcome to the "Big Society" every one and given the way things are going this is great for the UK isn't it, God help us all. Still what do you expect from spin doctors and some politicians chasing votes thinking that there more important than other ordinary folk.
Mind on a positive note at least the people in the communities affected are getting together to clear things up people who have far more initiative then these supposed leaders of the UK.
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