Throughout the summer, football pundits wasted no opportunity in hyping the current Premier League season to be the most competitive in the history of English top flight.

Many described the level of competition to result in a plethora of twists and turns, with champions Manchester United tipped to lose a ton of sleep due to the star power of neighbors Manchester City and the strength of Andre Villas-Boas' experienced Chelsea side.

The last international friendly for the season kicks off tomorrow against Argentina's own Independiente! Not a huge team, mind you, but I do recall a few people in a poll I created earlier this year that specifically asked for a South American club to come visit. I hope you're pleased with the choice.

The summer football break is a bleak place at the best of times invented stories, transfer 'sagas', and the endless sight of Harry Redknapp on Sky Sports News. But some things rise above these mild irritants and become truly infuriating, and while it takes a lot to rile me, I've been finding myself getting increasingly annoyed or disillusioned with some of the goings-on.

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Often times these days I find myself ruminating on the past. In days of yore and of my youth, when Edinburgh's trams were of the distant past rather than of the distant future, football boots were a different beast altogether.
Like Henry Ford's motor vehicles you could have any colour you wanted as long as it was black.

Was this the moment a rather unfortunate Gary Hooper became a convert for summer football?
Amusing as it is to see a professional football fall over his own feet, there must be sympathy for all the players being asked to perform on pitches in the state Tannadice was in on Sunday.
Not criticising Dundee United, lots of pitches are in a terrible state and the weather has been following an unsettling pattern of crap through shocking to bloody awful.

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- Game Time "Live Chat" on the QPR Report Board for QPR versus Coventry
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QPR vs COVENTRY - LINEUP
QPR: Kenny, Orr, Hill, Derry, Taarabt, Faurlin, Helguson, Gorkss, Routledge, Connolly, Smith.

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Was having my weekly gander at the East Lothian Courier to see which of my erstwhile school mates were making an appearance in the courts pages when I came across another argument for summer football:
Davie McGlynn, manager of Superleague outfit Musselburgh Athletic, said a combination of dreadful winter weather, the economic downturn and cutbacks across Scottish football had created a "terrible situation" for clubs.