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- Mandatory monthly Benayoun posting. Yossi re-ups with Liverpool until 2013. Israeli press
reports say he is now 3rd highest paid player at Anfield. Big ups. If he can start 30 EPL games
this season - he will be a bargain fantasy premier league midfielder acquisition in the 7.5m - 8.5m
range.
1: 1-1-8
2: 1-1-8
3: 1-1-8
4: 1-1-8
5: IBRACADABRA
6: 1-1-8(C)
7: 1-1-8
8: 1-1-8
9: 1-1-8
10: 1-1-8
11: 1-1-8
12: IBRACADABRA
13: IBRACADABRA
14: IBRACADABRA
15: IBRACADABRA
A fantasy Premier League Butt's Brain rundown from blogger One-One-Eight:
- 2008-2009 fantasy Premier League stud Brede Hangeland to replace Kolo Toure at Arsenal
[Telegraph]
- Martin O'Neill gives a drunken EPL prediction.
England international Shorey to Portsmouth
- Follow all the transfer deadline day dealings live as the clock ticks away [Telegraph]
- Aston Villa defender Nickey Shorey will be loaned to Pompey. The left back would have been
pushed down the pecking order with Villa's capture of Stephen Warnock from Blackburn [Goal]
- Portsmouth wins one, but loses a bigger one.
- Sir Alex Ferguson will regret not spending more of his Ronaldo cash [Football Corner]
- The LA Times ranks the top European clubs - no big surprises here [LA Times]
- Bolton's Megson and Everton's Moyes get stuck in [In the Stands]
- Berbatov warned by gangster over flithy texts [Off the Post and Dirty Tackle]
- Soccer commercials from around the world [The Best Eleven]
- A look at England's goalkeeping dilemma [The Football Blog]
- Fabio Aurelio (pictured above scoring a nice free kick against United last season) should
return to action this weekend for Liverpool. [USA Today]
- Portsmouth sign a former Manchester United star player. Unfortunately for Pompey, it's Danny
Webber - who was a star for United in the U-17 team - famously scoring 16 goals in 11 appearances
for United in 1998, including 5 against Fulham.
A touch of class
- EPL Foreigners, 1989 vs 2009 [The Offside]
- American's best player Landon Donovan has swine flu [Off the Post]
- Incarcerated Wigan to pick up dead animals off the side of the street on away games [In the
Stands]
- Sunderland's new signing Lorik Cana looks like he may just rival Screech Powers Fellaini for
the most bookings in the Prem this season [Dirty Tackle]
- Last day today to join the 2009-2010 Fantasy Premier League in time for the first week and a
chance to win some great footie shirts.
A nice opening weekend. As I watch Liverpool - Tottenham battle it out at White Hart Lane, I
thought I'd share some of my observations from the Premier League's first gameweek.
Due to a combination of multi-screen viewing and Tivo-ing (Setanta on my PC and ESPN / FSC on the
tele) I was able to take in 8 matches over the past two days.
- Portsmouth now loaded with some Arab money [Football 365]
- Footballers on Facebook. Nicky Butt likes this [In the Stands]
- Chelsea players booed by own fans at open training session [Unprofessional Foul]
- SAF's enemy Michael Carrick swapped for Luka Modric?
- Luka Modric breaks his leg - out at least six weeks. Will Harry go in for Kranjcar at
Portsmouth? [USA Today]
- Despite the win, Everton clearly miss Mikel Arteta. When he returns, the team should get back
to being a very tough side to beat [Unprofessional Foul]
- Vote for your favorite Goal of the Week [In the Stands]
- Wes Brown called into England squad.
- Will Chelsea take out Porto even without the suspended Drogba and Bosingwa? [Telegraph]
- Manchester United should dominate Turkish champs Besiktas [Goal]
- Adebayor faces FA charges for violent conduct. Get your Craig Bellamy (7.9M) transfers ready -
he's about to get a month's run in the side!
Nice technique with the left
- Who will be the next Liverpool player to have his house robbed while away on Champions League
duty? [Dirty Tackle]
- Robbie Keane to Celtic in January? Makes sense to me. Defoe + Crouch up front with a healthy
Modric back in the midfield, and Pavyluchenko continuing off the bench.
"My superman pose is better than yours." - Martin "No it's not" - Zavon
- Blog favorite Jimmy Bullard made it 2-in-2 as he scored for Hull's reserves yesterday in the
2-2 draw with York City. Bullard may even start against old club Fulham this weekend. I love this
guy [Vital Football]
- Another one of my man crushes, West Ham's speedy Zavon Hines, has impressed recently for both
club and country [EPL Talk]
- Dirk Kuyt admires big umbrella.
Is it Saha or Jo or neither? Everton Striker Arrested for Dealing Drugs
- Polish freestyle football by 19 year old Krzysiek Golonka "Clyde" [Youtube]
- Everton striker arrested on suspicion of dealing cannabis [Off the Post]
- Liverpool's season is over after 8 games [Football Corner]
- Portsmouth's O'Hara happy to leave Spurs and the club has more points after eight games (three)
than Tottenham did last season after eight games (two) [Tribal Football]
- Ipswich manager (or should we just call him former Manchester United legend - since he can't
manage) Roy Keane teaches us how to conduct an interview [Unprofessional Foul]
- 8th year anniversary of that Beckham free kick [In the Stands]
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- FIFA President Sepp Blatter takes an embarrassing tumble [101 great goals]
- Inter Milan take on the UCLA men's soccer team in a friendly today at 4pm if you are in LA. See
you there. Looks like NFL stud Chad Johnson is a big Zlatan Ibrahimovic fan... [Unprofessional
Foul]
- Frank Lampard seeing the benefits of being a top class fantasy footballer.
Manchester United Clock Challenge
- A fun article on deep lying playmakers. Will you have one in your fantasy football team this
season? [SoccerLens]
- Let's run it back two years to check out this obscure but excellent goal from Sweden [In the
Stands]
- Giggs grabs a hat trick as United score eight against Hangzhou Greentown, a team from the
(clearly not so) Super League in China [Football 365]
- Strange Ibracadabra airport video [Dirty Tackle]
- Streaker on the pitch with a decent dummy during an exhibition match yesterday [Off the Post
via 101 great goals]
Mark Hughes rings John Terry
- Roman Abramovich is a modest man [Dirty Tackle]
- Fantasy footie stud Stephen Ireland and Xerxes from '300' [Who Ate All The Pies]
- Luca Toni to the Premier League? [Tribal Football]
- Elano turns his back on City's 1-1-8 formation and moves to Turkey [ESPN]
- Bojinov turns his back on City's 1-1-8 formation too, goes to Parma [Football 365]
- Top 10 EPL strike partners [In the Stands]
- Boca Juniors manager Carlos Bianchi looks exactly like Larry David [Totally Looks Like]
- Arsenal target striker Marouane Chamakh, not a defensive midfielder like they actually need
[Off the Post]
- Will Beckham ever score in front of 90,000 fans again?
- Great goal celebrations. Adebayor not included [The Offside]
- Birmingham set piece taker James McFadden out for a month [Premier League]
- Mark Hughes could pick himself at striker for the United match [USA Today]
- Win a free Never Captain Nicky Butt T-Shirt [NCNB]
- If the Inter - Barcelona match continued.
Steven Gerrard: The Powerhouse
- Liverpool put club up for sale on Craigslist [Dirty Tackle]
- Arsenal / Tottenham in for Villa's bad boy Reo-Coker. But why? [Football Corner]
- SAF urges Jonny Evans to get married at United press conference [Off the Post]
- Liverpool out-Liverpooled in Europe yesterday.
A few quick random news items/thoughts to hold you over until The Champions League kicks off in a
few minutes:
- Fox Soccer Report gets a new look. (For those of you in North America).
- Martin Petrov is back with a vengeance. In my opinion, Petrov was the best crosser in the EPL
in 2007-2008.
- Samir Nasri breaks leg in training. Out for 3 months [SkySports]
- If you can't get an awkward, slowish, over-rated defender (John Terry), the obvious backup plan
is turning your attention to a younger, quicker, cheaper, and more versatile Harry Potter
look-alike. Lescott eyeing Man City move but Moyes isn't happy [Dirty Tackle]
- One Arab takeover is complete at Portsmouth (and the new owners keep Hart as manager) while
another Arab takeover at Notts County has rumors of Sven Goran Eriksson taking charge of the lower
league club.
Ashley Young is fast and Lucas is slow
- Aston Villa take on Liverpool at Anfield today [Sky Sports]
- Everton's demise is confusing [Football Corner]
- West Ham's Calum Davenport stabbed in both legs, fighting to avoid amputation [Off the
Post]
- Joleon Lescott signs for Man City.
- Adidas and Puma, founded by two feuding brothers, buried a 61-year-old grudge by playing a
soccer match this week [NY Times]
- Some relevant Carling Cup injury news from Tuesday's matches. Stoke's Ricardo Fuller injured
his groin, while Burnley's heroic goalkeeper Brian Jensen also went off due to injury [Sky] and
[Sky]
- England's one cap wonders.
Beckham learned a thing or two from Pato and Ronaldinho in Milan
- Theo Walcott's girlfriend Mel has "shunned the WAG lifestyle" to continue her university
studies, yet still drives around London in a Ferrari. The winger is out for a month with knee
ligament damage [The Sun]
- Walcott's young teammate Nicklas Bendtner is also facing a month long spell on the sidelines
after picking up a groin injury against Tottenham.
May you suffer a career ending injury, Amr Zaki
So here's a bit of what's been
going on in Butt's Brain these past few days:
- In case you missed it, Roy Keane's mobile phone rant is classic [Unprofessional Foul]
- They beat league leaders Chelsea 3-1 just 2 months ago, but lost to Tottenham 9-1
yesterday.
Neither Chelsea nor Manchester United nor Liverpool won this weekend. The three giants from the
2008-2009 season managed just one point, though
all three had home matches. Just one
point from nine at home. Last weekend, we saw a ton of penalty misses. This past weekend, we saw
the vulnerability of the Top 4 (and contenders).
A bit of Butt's Brain...
- Congratulations to Kevin and Cory - the two winners of our Boxing Day Premier League Contest.
These two guys will be receiving some Soccer Pro packs by Zuku (pictured above) for their brilliant
predictions [Zuku]
- Israeli international Barak Itzhaki with the goal of the week for Beitar Jerusalem
[YouTube]
- Who do Arsenal need to sign in January in order to win the league this season?
