they have Bilic now, he kicked us out of EL
Mate, I thought you were the voice of eternal optimism?
Stoke - we never do well there, jonathan walters, peter crouch, their ground, their bitter bastard fans, yeah. We should set up as a compact 541 and hope to get a lucky point from this.
Bournemouth - Eddie Howe. He's going tear Brendan a new one tactically, they were better than us in the cup last year, yeah I know we beat them, but they were concentrating on the league, yeah? They'll play well on our pitch and surprise us - we should drop the flair players for this one - keep it tight and hope for a point.
Arsenal - They're going to win the league with Cech & Sanchez, and with Lacazette and Pogba signing they've got everything, they're almost entirely French. French are the best. Mamadou should be playing for them, I really should be supporting them, but you know it wouldn't be as much fun, I'd have nothing to piss and moan about then. They're that good, yeah? No point in pretending, doesn't matter what we do here, we're getting beaten in London. Got to hope we grabbed at least one point from the first two or Brendan is under real pressure after losing here.
West Ham - Bilic. He's bossed us before, he'll do it again. One word; passion. Another one: fitness. Sturridge will start this and then lose a vital organ chasing a terrible ball from Lovren. He'll be out for the season and we'll be stuck with the new Andy Carroll looking lost upfront.
ManU - they'll have been invigorated by signing Reus, Muller and swapping DiMaria for Ibra - they're all German or nearly German - class everywhere. Schweinsteiger vs Lucas? Are you joking? We're finished.
End of the day I'm an optimist, but you're blind if you can't see what I'm pointing out, 3 points from 15 will be a good return, but only if Brendan wises up and plays a compact 731. I can't wait for the season to start, it's when we have so much hope.
Allez la rouge etc.