Premiership Results 7th November 2009

Yes okay this is an old old post that went on my old crap blog but never mind, I'm posting it.


Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-4 Arsenal
As a passionate Wales supporter, I probably should really support a club team from the country of my birth. And I do. I was born in England and I support Arsenal. In this game, Arsenal actually scored two goals and Wolves scored three but luckily Wolves managed to put two of them in the wrong net. Aaron Ramsey made a rare start for Arsenal and stayed on the pitch for the entire game. He missed at least one opportunity to score but he was playing against Wayne Hennessey, who in my biased opinion is one of the best goalkeepers in the world. Wayne even managed to prevent Andrei Arshavin from scoring and not many keepers do that. David Edwards played 80 minutes for Wolves

Aston Villa 5-1 Bolton Wanderers
Aston Villa managed to thrash Bolton 5-1 despite the absence of James Collins in central defence. James has hurt his groin so I hope he gets that sorted out by Saturday. As Craig Bellamy has a habit of suffering mystery injuries when there’s a Wales friendly coming up, James might be needed to take his place as captain.
I like Aston Villa so I’m happy for them to win but unfortunately Sam Ricketts was playing for Bolton so I had to support them. Sam was replaced after 68 minutes which I’m sure was as a precaution to make sure he stayed fit for Wales, and nothing to do with any bad play on his part. Sam would have got an assist if Richard Dunne hadn’t got in the way.

Blackburn Rovers 3-1 Portsmouth
Jason Brown sat on the bench for Blackburn Rovers’ match against Portsmouth, which I’m glad to say they won 3-1. I think it was a good decision by manager Sam Allardyce to keep Jason on the bench. Jason’s chances of playing for Wales in the friendly against Scotland might be small, but we’re so short of goalkeepers already, the last thing we should be doing is putting them in dangerous places like between the goalposts where they might get hurt.

Manchester City 3-3 Burnley
Craig Bellamy made his first start for Manchester City since his controversial announcement that he would stop playing for Wales if Man City qualified for the Champions’ League. So that’s yet another good reason to make sure Manchester City know their place and stay out of the Big Four. (I admit it would be lovely to see them displacing Chelsea, but my priority is Wales, even if Craig’s isn’t.)
So I was all ready to support Man Shitty’s opponents today, only to discover they were playing Burnley. I hate Burnley. Not only did they knock Arsenal out of the Carling Cup last year, they had the cheek to fail to knock Tottenham out. Burnley did well today though – they got a draw which is an ideal result when you don’t want either of the teams to win. Craig threw himself into the action, bagging himself a goal and a yellow card.

Tottenham Hostpur 2-0 Sunderland
Gareth Bale sat on the bench throughout Tottenham’s 2-0 win over Sunderland. I’m really annoyed about that. If I have to suffer the agony of seeing Tottenham winning a match, they might at least put their star Welsh left back on. It would also have given Gareth some much-needed game time and hopefully helped his confidence too. But then again if Gareth had played, Tottenham would probably have won 5-0. And no Arsenal fan likes to see that.