……

…..18 years!

18 years!

18 years! 18 years! 18 years!

so ive heard its been a while since youve won the league.

pure pedigree. pure pedigree.

scousers being twats. what else is new?

cunning stunts.

This is a good post. You wrote it not that wanker Michael, that is why!

What on earth have you let your site become? A place where a bumbling
19 year old, a ‘writing wannabe’ no-wit, and ‘a writer’ who’s stupid
poses make vomit want to induce on itself can come to make what was a
good site make writing from a five year old pleasant.
This rubbish is too much for true fans of the game. You always had done an outstanding job of presenting opinion and views about the Premier League but now leave your writing to a 19 year who knows less about football than my pet ferret.
I am not much for the Americanizing of the opinion here but at least when BC John, Kartik and Bill E Shears used to post even though they are Americans they gave repsectable, reasoned opinions. Michael is a total non-nothing wannabe wanker.
Besides, with you having no more podcasts, this place is worthless to
any fan. Speaking of your podcasts, why they suddenly stop, is michael taking that over as well, and his lack of contacts and knowledge of football but his love of Hockey and lecturing us how the NHL works is now the standard for EPL Talk?
I know you have had your health problems and all, but just give it up if you are going to leave this site to no nothing 19 year old.
If you want to be a blogger and just blog on what you see on TV fine, but don’t pretend you know all of it. Your
site is now worthless to anyone who cares about the world’s game. My holiday has been ruined by seeing what this site has become.
Gaffer get well and run this site the way it used to be run. Otherwise I will be simply the first out the door of EPL Talk.

Don’t delete this. Let your readers decide whether they want Michael posting and ruining EPL Talk any further.

Yes I can argue that and in fact I just did. Did a crucial decision make Senderos go AWOL when Hypia scored? Did a crucial decision prevent Torres from scoring a wonderful goal? Did a crucial decision make Adebayor miss an absolute sitter? Did crucial decisions prevent Arsenal beating Liverpool a single time in three attempts, two of which were at home?

No. Rafa did a job on Arsenal.

You can complain about referee decisions all you want, but all that does is deflect attention from larger problems at Arsenal, such as despite having an excellent team there is some dead weight that needs cutting from it. Arsenal were in the market for Torres and Babel but passed on them for being overvalued – and guess what, they end up at Liverpool, scoring in the quarter final.

Also Rafa/Liverpool seem to have that European magic touch while Wenger/Arsenal patently do not.

If you want to get all micro about it you could argue that losing Sagna or losing Flamini cost Arsenal the tie. Or that preventing Gerrard from skinning his man and supplying the cross that created the crucial away goal in the first leg was the #1 crucial moment.

Penalties get the headlines but they do not tell the whole story.