With the season starting slightly earlier this year due to the World Cup, most teams in the Premiership have played 8 league games already. Last season, the 8th round of matches was played two weeks later, on the weekend of October 18th/19th. By the end of it, Tottenham were staring up at every other team [...]
In British newspaper match reports of Aston Villa’s 2-1 away win against Tottenham Hotspur, almost all of the stories lead with sentences similar to this one found in The Sun: “Calamity keeper Heurelho Gomes messed up to leave Spurs rooted at the foot of the table.”
True, yes, but it doesn’t provide a complete accurate picture [...]
We thought it’d be fun to pick our all-star injury football team featuring those Premier League players that always seem to be injured. Thanks to the EPL Talk readers who participated in last weekend’s EPL Talk Chat for the idea.
Chris Kirkland
Gary Neville
Mikael Silvestre
Jonathan Woodgate
Ledley King
Owen Hargreaves
Kieron Dyer
Tim Cahill
Craig Bellamy
Michael Owen
Louis Saha
Subs:
Andy Johnson
Mark Viduka
Valeri Bojinov
Emile Heskey
Didier [...]