Premier League 2017/18.

[Don Diaz]

Who is going to Chelsea then?

Meet up in Green man from 1.00pm, burger van in the garden.....!! Fine selection of beer, including Guinness and songs inside the pub.

See you there.

 

[Liam]

Who is going to Chelsea then?

Meet up in Green man from 1.00pm, burger van in the garden.....!! Fine selection of beer, including Guinness and songs inside the pub.

See you there.

I'll be there me ol' China. Looking forward to the season now!!!!

 

[Glenjamin]

Who is going to Chelsea then?

Meet up in Green man from 1.00pm, burger van in the garden.....!! Fine selection of beer, including Guinness and songs inside the pub.

See you there.

Flights are booked n I'll be around Wembley about 10am Fuck sake lol. Early flights are a bitch.

 

[Liam]

Flights are booked n I'll be around Wembley about 10am Fuck sake lol. Early flights are a bitch.

I often end up getting the early train as it gets too expensive to travel otherwise and it always ends up in me getting leathered...

 

[Glenjamin]

I often end up getting the early train as it gets too expensive to travel otherwise and it always ends up in me getting leathered...

Which costs even more

 

[Don Diaz]

I often end up getting the early train as it gets too expensive to travel otherwise and it always ends up in me getting leathered...

Maybe skip the Stella with breakfast on the way down? Just a thought....

 

[Liam]

Maybe skip the Stella with breakfast on the way down? Just a thought....

Maybe....

 

[wilson]

Who is going to Chelsea then?

Meet up in Green man from 1.00pm, burger van in the garden.....!! Fine selection of beer, including Guinness and songs inside the pub.

See you there.

I'll be at the match with my old man. Arrived back in the country after an almost 2 year long absence yesterday so it will be my first Spurs match in that time! Ridiculously excited. Still gutted that I missed the last season at the Lane and end of an era celebrations but hey ho! Hopefully us winning the league this season will make up for it

 

[skiathospurs]

I am after 2 for burnley together,i can get when they go on sale,but if anyone has 2 together and wants rid tell me now!!

 

[skiathospurs]

Prediction thread from BBC,mostly I have posted because it has all the PL ins&outs in full for each club.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40816204

 

[Don Diaz]

I'll be at the match with my old man. Arrived back in the country after an almost 2 year long absence yesterday so it will be my first Spurs match in that time! Ridiculously excited. Still gutted that I missed the last season at the Lane and end of an era celebrations but hey ho! Hopefully us winning the league this season will make up for it

PM me your mobile number if you want, there's a meet up Whats App group so that if you're ever going on your own you can find a friend or two for a beer prior to the game.

 

[skiathospurs]

OOOh mousa dembele....


Tottenham midfielder Mousa Dembele says the 2017-2018 season can be 'special' for Tottenham even though they have yet to make a major signing this summer.

"The way we have played the last few years...there is a lot of confidence in the team," the Belgian tells Sky Sports.

"The biggest aim was to keep everyone together. It's a positive thing.

"We've played a few years together and everybody knows their role in the team. This year is going to be a special year for us I think."

 

[skiathospurs]

Wembley can be magic for us - Pochettino

Tottenham Hotspur

Posted at 11:04

Also at the Premier League launch is Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino and after finishing third and second in the last two seasons, he is full of confidence ahead of the team's one season away from White Hart Lane at Wembley.

"We are ready, the team is settled," he says. "It's true it is another challenge to make Wembley feel like home but we are excited and very positive.

"It will be difficult to change the perception and it's an easy excuse to say because it is Wembley we cannot play like we did at White Hart Lane but last Saturday it was a very good test there against Juventus (a 2-0 win) and Wembley can be magic for us and bring some good news."

Defender Jan Vertonghen says Tottenham must make a strong start if they are to make a serious challenge for the title.

Spurs start at newly-promoted Newcastle on Sunday (13:30 BST) before entertaining champions Chelsea on 20 August.

"If you want to compete to win the Premier League you really need a strong start," Vertonghen tells Sky Sports.

The Belgian, 30, adds: "Our biggest advantage is our age. I'm the eldest outfield player and I feel young. It is definitely the best Tottenham team I have played in."

 

[skiathospurs]

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is coming across very well at the Premier League launch. He is keen to give young players a chance like his old mentor Marcelo Bielsa.
So let's hear more from the Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino, who is asked why no new players have been brought in yet during the close season.

"Tottenham in the last few years have had a very clear philosophy, when you have a very good team and a plan you want to follow it is not easy to find the right players," the Argentine said. "I'm sure we will add to our squad to give new energy. Our chairman is working hard with our chief scout trying to add strength."

Asked about the £200m transfer of Neymar to PSG he added: "It's true to say the market is a little bit crazy but you cannot stop it."

 

[skiathospurs]

Spurs don't fear Wembley

Tottenham Hotspur

Posted at 12:27
The "Wembley curse" is bound to be trotted out if Spurs lose a game or two at their temporary home for this season, but midfielder Mousa Dembele says Tottenham's players are not worried about the prospect of playing home games at the national stadium in 2017-18.

Spurs, whose legendary White Hart Lane ground is being redeveloped, won only one of their five games at Wembley last term but beat Champions League runners-up Juventus 2-0 there in a pre-season friendly last weekend.

Belgian international Dembele tells Sky Sports: "We have played some good games at Wembley as well. Mentally I don't think it is a big deal."

 

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[Don Diaz]

Thanks for all this content mate, excellent stuff.

 

[skiathospurs]

Thanks for all this content mate, excellent stuff.

Basically its too fucking hot to go outside ATM !!

 

[Don Diaz]

Basically its too fucking hot to go outside ATM !!

 

[skiathospurs]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/live/40808...you?'&&ns_fee=0#post_598ab325e4b0b165a9f80d8a

sept mate!!island is rammed,its 40dgrs everyday its all about survival these weeks!!

 

[Dorset]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/live/40808619?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=598ab325e4b0b165a9f80d8a&'Where are you?'&&ns_fee=0#post_598ab325e4b0b165a9f80d8a

sept mate!!island is rammed,its 40dgrs everyday its all about survival these weeks!!

Oh fuck off, it's freezing here, pissing down with rain and cold as fuck. Fucking typical ex-pat moaning about the weather just like he had never left the country. I used to moan about the weather in Thailand, it was fucking poxy there, when it wasn't raining it was too hot then it rained again, tropical paradise my arse, and I got fucking Dengue fever, and there were water buffalo in the lake outside our house so we couldn't use the shower because the water came from the fucking lake that the fucking water buffalos shat in, fucking poxy place, just like poxy England where it's raining and fucking cold. I remember when we lived in Australia as well, that was poxy, either too hot or raining like fuck, fuck they get some serious heavy rain there, not in the middle, I never went there, fuck that for a game of soldiers - and all the fucking creatures trying to kill you, bastards and it was too fucking hot, then in the winter it was too fucking cold because the fucking house we rented was made out of wood with gaps everywhere to let the fucking breeze through - and the fucking funnel webs in. Fucking poxy weather in foreign places and England, fucking cunt weather.

 

[skiathospurs]

Oh fuck off, it's freezing here, pissing down with rain and cold as fuck. Fucking typical ex-pat moaning about the weather just like he had never left the country. I used to moan about the weather in Thailand, it was fucking poxy there, when it wasn't raining it was too hot then it rained again, tropical paradise my arse, and I got fucking Dengue fever, and there were water buffalo in the lake outside our house so we couldn't use the shower because the water came from the fucking lake that the fucking water buffalos shat in, fucking poxy place, just like poxy England where it's raining and fucking cold. I remember when we lived in Australia as well, that was poxy, either too hot or raining like fuck, fuck they get some serious heavy rain there, not in the middle, I never went there, fuck that for a game of soldiers - and all the fucking creatures trying to kill you, bastards and it was too fucking hot, then in the winter it was too fucking cold because the fucking house we rented was made out of wood with gaps everywhere to let the fucking breeze through - and the fucking funnel webs in. Fucking poxy weather in foreign places and England, fucking cunt weather.

Just be fucking glad that your globetrotting days were before god in all his magnificence sent down some bright spark to lo and behold invent.....quad bikes.Yeah i really liked the banana splts as a kid so I am going to invent something as wide as a car,noisy as a F1 motor and fast as a milk float,so every fat SOB and his fat SOB wife can fucking ruin my day and waste weeks of my life stuck behind the fat fucking slow moving cunts.And every other cunt is either like max verstappen on a moped or one of 10,000 sunday fucking drivers crawling along pointing at the sea,oh look its the sea,never mind darling put your fucking right foot down and drive less like a cretin.And then the pedestrians look right,see a car coming and walk out anyway cos you`re on holiday,or walk 4 wide down the road,until some mad engerlish cunt just heads straight for you forcing you to flee for your life!..........Thats just the first kilometer....
And then the cunts in a bar tell me "oh you are so lucky living in paradise",yeah and that phil collins was a cunt too,(even if he does support spurs!).
Two weeks and most will have toddled off home and I will return to being cute cuddly gandalf again and not captain fucking caveman.

 

[skiathospurs]

Meanwhile.....

 

[skiathospurs]

 

[Dorset]

Just be fucking glad that your globetrotting days were before god in all his magnificence sent down some bright spark to lo and behold invent.....quad bikes.Yeah i really liked the banana splts as a kid so I am going to invent something as wide as a car,noisy as a F1 motor and fast as a milk float,so every fat SOB and his fat SOB wife can fucking ruin my day and waste weeks of my life stuck behind the fat fucking slow moving cunts.And every other cunt is either like max verstappen on a moped or one of 10,000 sunday fucking drivers crawling along pointing at the sea,oh look its the sea,never mind darling put your fucking right foot down and drive less like a cretin.And then the pedestrians look right,see a car coming and walk out anyway cos you`re on holiday,or walk 4 wide down the road,until some mad engerlish cunt just heads straight for you forcing you to flee for your life!..........Thats just the first kilometer....
And then the cunts in a bar tell me "oh you are so lucky living in paradise",yeah and that phil collins was a cunt too,(even if he does support spurs!).
Two weeks and most will have toddled off home and I will return to being cute cuddly gandalf again and not captain fucking caveman.

Quality ranting mate, I will have to watch out you might be challenging my throne. Holiday brain is a funny thing, I used to spend half the first lesson when I was teaching folks how got dive telling the step-through riders how to survive their holidays.Thai lorry drivers don't give a fuck about tourists or anybody, they just keep going - that's the good thing about Buddhism, if you get splattered all over the road you get another go.

 

[Liam]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/live/40808619?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=598ab325e4b0b165a9f80d8a&'Where are you?'&&ns_fee=0#post_598ab325e4b0b165a9f80d8a

sept mate!!island is rammed,its 40dgrs everyday its all about survival these weeks!!

Had her sister on video call earlier on moaning about the heat, told her it's raining here and that's best we can hope for so shut it.

 

[skiathospurs]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/40856491

BBC sport
We asked 40 BBC TV and radio pundits, presenters, journalists and commentators for their one-two-three-four and an explanation of their selection.

The predictions were made on the basis of how each squad shaped up on Friday, 11 August, before the opening weekend but with three weeks to go before the transfer window shuts on Friday 1 September, and the potential of further signings - or departures.

Predictor 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
Chris Waddle Tottenham Man City Man Utd Chelsea
Jo Currie Chelsea Man City Man Utd Tottenham
Alan Shearer Man Utd Man City Liverpool Chelsea
Mark Schwarzer Man Utd Man City Liverpool Chelsea
Phil Neville Man Utd Man City Chelsea Arsenal
Garth Crooks Man Utd Man City Chelsea Arsenal
Danny Murphy Man Utd Man City Chelsea Liverpool
Caroline Barker Man Utd Man City Chelsea Tottenham
Ruud Gullit Man Utd Man City Tottenham Liverpool
Danny Webber Man Utd Man City Tottenham Chelsea
Rachel Brown-Finnis Man Utd Chelsea Man City Liverpool
Jason Mohammad Man Utd Chelsea Man City Tottenham
Jonathan Pearce Man Utd Chelsea Man City Arsenal
Lindsay Johnson Man Utd Chelsea Tottenham Man City
Dion Dublin Man Utd Chelsea Tottenham Man City
Gabby Logan Man City Man Utd Chelsea Arsenal
Ian Wright Man City Man Utd Chelsea Arsenal
Jacqui Oatley Man City Man Utd Chelsea Arsenal
Leon Osman Man City Man Utd Chelsea Arsenal
John Murray Man City Man Utd Chelsea Arsenal
Ian Dennis Man City Man Utd Chelsea Arsenal
Chris Sutton Man City Man Utd Chelsea Liverpool
Simon Mundie Man City Man Utd Chelsea Liverpool
Mark Lawrenson Man City Man Utd Chelsea Liverpool
Steve Bower Man City Man Utd Chelsea Liverpool
Manish Bhasin Man City Man Utd Chelsea Liverpool
Pat Nevin Man City Man Utd Chelsea Tottenham
Dan Walker Man City Man Utd Chelsea Tottenham
Jermaine Jenas Man City Chelsea Man Utd Tottenham
Guy Mowbray Man City Chelsea Man Utd Tottenham
Trevor Sinclair Man City Chelsea Man Utd Arsenal
Kevin Kilbane Man City Chelsea Man Utd Liverpool
Juliette Ferrington Man City Chelsea Man Utd Liverpool
Conor McNamara Man City Chelsea Man Utd Liverpool
Alistair Mann Man City Chelsea Man Utd Liverpool
Steve Wilson Man City Chelsea Man Utd Arsenal
John Motson Man City Liverpool Man Utd Chelsea
John Hartson Man City Liverpool Chelsea Tottenham
Matt Upson Man City Liverpool Chelsea Arsenal
Alistair Bruce-Ball Man City Tottenham Man Utd Chelsea

Chris Waddle: I know Spurs haven't signed anybody yet but I think there is plenty of time to get in what they need. The squad they have already got came very close last year, and they proved they could beat the big teams when they had to.

The only thing that can set in now is complacency, but I don't think that will happen with the manager they have got - Mauricio Pochettino is a very talented manager, and I don't think he is frightened to fire the bullets if he needs to.

Jermaine Jenas: In that Spurs dressing room, a few players will be thinking 'well, we have just sold our best right-back Kyle Walker to a competitor who are going crazy in the transfer market, and we haven't bought anyone in yet'.

Yes I am fully on board with this kind of 'Pochettino Way' of bringing through the youngsters and developing the academy talent, but it is crazy that Spurs have just had two years where they have had a run at the title and fallen short and they have not improved their squad.

Their players will be thinking how are they going to make that next step if they have not improved our squad and that squad wasn't good enough to get the job done anyway?

Pat Nevin: There is an argument that 1-11, Spurs are the best team but you cannot go through a season with 11 players.

Ian Wright: I am a big admirer of Spurs and there are not many players in their team who I dislike - it is not like when I played against them, I disliked them then! But now they have got a lot of good young English players who are playing exciting football.

I like Pochettino too but if Harry Kane goes missing for any amount of time, they are going to struggle. It's the same with Toby Alderweireld or Danny Rose.

Ian Wright: I am a big admirer of Spurs and there are not many players in their team who I dislike - it is not like when I played against them, I disliked them then! But now they have got a lot of good young English players who are playing exciting football.

I like Pochettino too but if Harry Kane goes missing for any amount of time, they are going to struggle. It's the same with Toby Alderweireld or Danny Rose.

MOTD commentator Conor McNamara: The hardest decision for me in these predictions was leaving Tottenham out of the top four. Is Pochettino *choosing* to keep faith in his current squad? Or is Tottenham's construction bill on their new stadium the real reason they have not yet spent in this window?

BBC Radio 5 live's senior football reporter Ian Dennis: When fit, Kieran Trippier is an ideal replacement for Walker but Spurs are yet to add to their squad while Arsenal have Lacazette and, crucially in the race for the top four, appear to be retaining Alexis Sanchez.

 

[Glenjamin]

I put my usual seasonal tri cast on yesterday

1. Spurs
2. Man City
3. Chelsea.

 

[skiathospurs]

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