Joint best defence and second highest goalscorers. Not bad for a **** start to the season with no

[Monty91]

proper strikers and a shambolic defence.

[7evens]

Haven't you learned anything from the last ten years http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Berni]

Damned decent of them, really.

I think it's fair to say that a season where Palace are fourth with eight games gone, with Leicester and West Ham not far behind them is pretty bloody odd.

[Pat Vegas]

start. United looking ok but we just beat them they are still a long way off, City look the strongest but not that convincing either.


It's a good chance. Though I say that every year.

[Monty91]

Of course the big anomaly so far is Chelsea.

Other than their lowly position, I don’t think the table is looking that odd at all. You usually get a couple of outliers "in and around" the top four at this stage.

[Berni]

episode in his interview with MOTD on Saturday, which was heartening.

But then a narcissist being publicly confronted with his own failures and shortcomings usually results in some sort of comical meltdown.

[7evens]

On a sobering note, we're only 8 games in and United are largely in a false position.
I can see them dropping points at Everton and City in their next two games.

[redgunamo]

if you want me to stay, start winning.

[Berni]

The best thing about it is that it's likely to get worse as he continues to alienate his players. :cloud9:

[Monty91]

football.

How can it be that in such a lucrative and high profile industry, no-one was there to explain to Mourinho that saying what he said was fundamentally and on every level a singularly bad idea?

I include Wenger in this too. At a time when Arsenal fans pay such high ticket prices while money sits in the bank unspent, he is playing a very dangerous game to treat them with such contempt .

Contempt that they deserve, obviously, but that is another matter.

[7evens]

[Berni]

listen to any such advice or wield too much power within their respective clubs for a mere PR to be authorised to advise them.

Also, can you imagine what our fans would say if it turned out we were paying someone a quarter of a mill a year plus just to tell AW not to say stupid ****? Tim Payton would be all over Sky Sports News moaning about it.

[redgunamo]

So much so, in fact, that you could say it's his MO.

[Monty91]

history of football.

[Classic Jorge]

Saying "Shelsee never get penalty"

[Berni]

get f**ked off with him being going increasingly mad and being an embarrassment. It'll happen again with Chelsea - even though they're a club with a higher embarrassment threshold than most due to having virtually no reputation to besmirch.

[redgunamo]

Yeah, I think our obsession with money, especially other people's money, has been the biggest strategic error we've made.

[Berni]

winning the f**king league would make you.

[redgunamo]

[Monty91]

that is so detrimental to their club and personal reputation.

[Classic Jorge]

Always looking for percieved injustices

[Berni]

shown to dive a yard away from any contact with the goalkeeper :hehe:

[Brentwood]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

That was bizarre too. The bit about Costa being 'found guilty by images'. What the f**k does that mean? Is Mourinho now complaining about actual rock solid evidence being used by the FA in their decision making? :hehe:

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[Pat Vegas]

Cech 11m Per 8M Cazorla 15m?

I wonder what we paid for Walcott and Ramsey in total in the end.

[Monty91]

and to say we have "the best chance in years" doesn't feel like it does due justice to that fact.

[redgunamo]

or even Arsene Wenger, for that matter.

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

[Pat Vegas]

[redgunamo]

Which is the point apparently.