2012-13 Barclays English Premier League Football/Soccer Thread

[BroadwayBomber55]

Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov's leukaemia in remission
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...cernet&cc=5901

[BroadwayBomber55]

Summer Transfer Gossip: Sunday August 5, 2012

Sky Sports
http://www1.skysports.com/transfer-centre/clockwatch

ESPN Soccernet
http://blogs.soccernet.com/onthemove...rsie_uturn.php

BBC Sport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/gossip/; http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/transfers

Goal.com
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/69/transfer-zone

Yahoo Sports UK and Ireland
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/transfers/

Fox Soccer via Yardbarker
http://www.yardbarker.com/soccer

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament Fixtures: August 11-14, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

Capital One Football League Cup
First Round

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012
10:00 ET Bury v Middlesbrough
10:00 ET Carlisle United v Accrington Stanley
10:00 ET Cheltenham Town v Milton Keynes Dons
10:00 ET Crewe Alexandra v Hartlepool United
10:00 ET Doncaster Rovers v York City
10:00 ET Hull City v Rotherham United
10:00 ET Leeds United v Shrewsbury Town
10:00 ET Notts County v Bradford City
10:00 ET Rochdale v Barnsley
10:00 ET Sheffield United v Burton Albion
10:00 ET Walsall v Brentford
10:00 ET Watford v Wycombe Wanderers
10:00 ET Wolverhampton Wanderers v Aldershot Town

SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2012
10:00 ET Blackpool v Morecambe

MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 2012
2:45 ET Fleetwood Town v Nottingham Forest
2:45 ET Oldham Athletic v Sheffield Wednesday
2:45 ET Preston North End v Huddersfield Town

TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2012
2:45 ET Birmingham City v Barnet
2:45 ET Bristol City v Gillingham
2:45 ET Charlton Athletic v Leyton Orient
2:45 ET Chesterfield v Tranmere Rovers
2:45 ET Dagenham & Redbridge v Coventry City
2:45 ET Derby County v Scunthorpe United
2:45 ET Exeter City v Crystal Palace
2:45 ET Ipswich Town v Bristol Rovers
2:45 ET Millwall v Crawley Town
2:45 ET Northampton Town v Cardiff City
2:45 ET Oxford United v AFC Bournemouth
2:45 ET Peterborough United v Southend United
2:45 ET Plymouth Argyle v Portsmouth
2:45 ET Port Vale v Burnley
2:45 ET Stevenage v AFC Wimbledon
2:45 ET Swindon Town v Brighton & Hove Albion
2:45 ET Torquay United v Leicester City
2:45 ET Yeovil Town v Colchester United

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament Fixtures: August 11-14, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

2012-13 FA Cup presented by Budweiser
Extra Preliminary Round
From TheFA.com
http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/Fixtures

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament FT Scores: August 11, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

Capital One Football League Cup
First Round

North Section
Rochdale 3–4 aet Barnsley

Notts County 0–1 aet Bradford City

Hull City 1–1 aet (7–6p) Rotherham United

Carlisle United 1–0 Accrington Stanley

Doncaster Rovers 1–1 aet (4–2p) York City

Crewe Alexandra 5–0 Hartlepool United

Bury 1–2 Middlesbrough

Sheffield United 2–2 aet (4–5p) Burton Albion

Leeds United 4–0 Shrewsbury Town

South Section
Cheltenham Town 1–1 aet (3–5p) Milton Keynes Dons

Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–1 aet (7–6p) Aldershot Town

Watford 1–0 aet Wycombe Wanderers

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Super Cup Fixtures: Sunday August 12, 2012

From Sky Sports and ESPN Soccernet

2012 FA Community Shield
From Villa Park, Birmingham
Chelsea vs. Manchester City

Since Wembley Stadium hosted the men football Gold Medal Game this weekend, the curtain raiser to the English Premier League season will be held at the home of Aston Villa, Villa Park in Birmingham.

It's defending EPL champions Manchester City taking on defending FA Cup winners Chelsea.

Match rules:
- 90 minutes
- Penalty shoot-out if scores level after 90 minutes
- Seven named substitutes
- Maximum of six substitutions

8:30 AM ET Chelsea v Manchester City

[ajra21]

Liverpool are looking at paying £10m for Clint Dempsey.

[s1ty m]

Community Shield result:

Chelsea 2 Manchester City 3.

[BroadwayBomber55]

Community Shield result:

Chelsea 2 Manchester City 3.

Yaya Toure was phenomenal again.

Third trophy win for Roberto Mancini with the FA Community Shield tying with Wilfried Wild as Manchester City's second most successful manager in terms of trophy wins with three.

Joe Mercer has five.

[BroadwayBomber55]

Summer Transfer Gossip: Sunday August 12, 2012

Sky Sports
http://www1.skysports.com/transfer-centre/clockwatch

ESPN Soccernet
http://blogs.soccernet.com/onthemove...ulk_hogone.php

BBC Sport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/gossip/; http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/transfers

Goal.com
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/69/transfer-zone

Yahoo Sports UK and Ireland
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/transfers/

Fox Soccer via Yardbarker
http://www.yardbarker.com/soccer

[s1ty m]

Yaya Toure was phenomenal again.

Third trophy win for Roberto Mancini with the FA Community Shield tying with Wilfried Wild as Manchester City's second most successful manager in terms of trophy wins with three.

Joe Mercer has five.

Yaya is a ridiculously good player. You obviously look into the history BB55, really good to see. Roll on the new season.

[BroadwayBomber55]

Summer Transfer Gossip: Monday August 13, 2012

Sky Sports
http://www1.skysports.com/transfer-centre/clockwatch

ESPN Soccernet
http://blogs.soccernet.com/onthemove...n_north_lo.php

BBC Sport
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/gossip/; http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/transfers

Goal.com
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/69/transfer-zone

Yahoo Sports UK and Ireland
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/transfers/

Fox Soccer via Yardbarker
http://www.yardbarker.com/soccer

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament FT Scores: August 11, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

2012-13 FA Cup presented by Budweiser
Extra Preliminary Round
http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/Results

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament FT Scores: August 12, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

Capital One Football League Cup
First Round

North Section
Blackpool 1–2 Morecambe

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament FT Scores: August 12, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

2012-13 FA Cup presented by Budweiser
Extra Preliminary Round
http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/Results

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament Fixtures: August 13-15, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

2012-13 FA Cup presented by Budweiser
Extra Preliminary Round Replay
http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/Fixtures

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament FT Scores: August 13, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

Capital One Football League Cup
First Round

North Section
Fleetwood Town 0–1 Nottingham Forest

Preston North End 2–0 Huddersfield Town

Oldham Athletic 2–4 Sheffield Wednesday

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament FT Scores: August 13, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

Capital One Football League Cup
First Round

South Section
http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/Results

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament FT Scores: August 14, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

Capital One Football League Cup
First Round

North Section
Derby County 5–5 aet (6-7p) Scunthorpe United

Port Vale 1–3 Burnley

Chesterfield 1–2 aet Tranmere Rovers

South Section
Ipswich Town 3–1 Bristol Rovers

Stevenage 3–1 AFC Wimbledon

Exeter City 1–2 Crystal Palace

Yeovil Town 3–0 Colchester United

Birmingham City 5–1 Barnet

Bristol City 1–2 Gillingham

Northampton Town 2–1 Cardiff City

Plymouth Argyle 3–0 Portsmouth

Millwall 2–2 aet (1-4p) Crawley Town

Torquay United 0–4 Leicester City

Dagenham & Redbridge 0–1 Coventry City

Peterborough United 4–0 Southend United

Swindon Town 3–0 Brighton & Hove Albion

Charlton Athletic 1–1 aet (3-4p) Leyton Orient

Oxford United 0–0 aet (5-3p) Bournemouth

[BroadwayBomber55]

English Domestic Cup Tournament FT Scores: August 14, 2012

From Sky Sports, BBC Sport, ESPN Soccernet and other sites.

2012-13 FA Cup presented by Budweiser
Extra Preliminary Round Replay
http://www.thefa.com/TheFACup/Results

[EvanJ]

Manchester United got Robin Van Persie.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...-man-u?cc=5901

[ruthianblast]

Manchester United got Robin Van Persie.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...-man-u?cc=5901

Yes! RvP coming to Old Trafford is a very good thing. I know it has just been exhibition but the tour matches have severely lacked creativity and scoring.

[BroadwayBomber55]

Yes! RvP coming to Old Trafford is a very good thing. I know it has just been exhibition but the tour matches have severely lacked creativity and scoring.

But I also say that Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United need a holding/defensive midfielder.

Anderson is injury prone. Michael Carrick can intercept passes, but can't tackle. Darren Fletcher hasn't been playing much due to illness.

As for Robin van Persie signing with Manchester United, Fergie has tons of weapons up front with RvP, Wayne Rooney, Chicharito, Danny Welbeck and Federico Macheda. With that move, it spells the end of Dimitar Berbatov at Old Trafford.

A front three of van Persie and Rooney in the strikeforce with Shinji Kagawa and Paul Scholes coming off the bench supporting them in-between is pretty good.

[ruthianblast]

But I also say that Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United need a holding/defensive midfielder.

Anderson is injury prone. Michael Carrick can intercept passes, but can't tackle. Darren Fletcher hasn't been playing much due to illness.

As for Robin van Persie signing with Manchester United, Fergie has tons of weapons up front with RvP, Wayne Rooney, Chicharito, Danny Welbeck and Federico Macheda. With that move, it spells the end of Dimitar Berbatov at Old Trafford.

A front three of van Persie and Rooney in the strikeforce with Shinji Kagawa and Paul Scholes coming off the bench supporting them in-between is pretty good.

Sir Alex may still need a DM; but even the current squad is very formidable with the RvP addition. Vidic coming back is a bolster to the back and Anderson, despite being injury prone has actually impressed during the exhibition with his work rate (at least imo) and could move back into that supporting role with Nani being the creative swing man. RvP, Walbeck & Rooney up front should provide plenty of punch with Chicharito as a sniper and Kagawa as a bit of wild card (only because I haven't really seen him play).

Ferdinand is dipping, but Smalling, Evans and Jones (who is about my favorite right now!) having another season to work together, Jones likely won't need to make so many runs with all the fire power up front and can stay home a bit more.

Overall, the RvP signing makes so much sense and makes every other position seem that much better.

[BroadwayBomber55]

Sir Alex may still need a DM; but even the current squad is very formidable with the RvP addition. Vidic coming back is a bolster to the back and Anderson, despite being injury prone has actually impressed during the exhibition with his work rate (at least imo) and could move back into that supporting role with Nani being the creative swing man. RvP, Walbeck & Rooney up front should provide plenty of punch with Chicharito as a sniper and Kagawa as a bit of wild card (only because I haven't really seen him play).

Ferdinand is dipping, but Smalling, Evans and Jones (who is about my favorite right now!) having another season to work together, Jones likely won't need to make so many runs with all the fire power up front and can stay home a bit more.

Overall, the RvP signing makes so much sense and makes every other position seem that much better.

I think this could be the lineup for Sir Alex Ferguson...

Formation (4-1-2-1-2 or 4-4-2 Diamond)

GK: David De Gea

LB: Patrice Evra

CD: Nemanja Vidic

CD: Rio Ferdinand

RB: Phil Jones or Rafael da Silva

LW: Ashley Young or Nani

CM: Michael Carrick, Anderson or Tom Cleverley

RW: Antonio Valencia, Nani or Shinji Kagawa

AM: Shinji Kagawa, Tom Cleverley or Paul Scholes

ST: Wayne Rooney or Chicharito

ST: Robin van Persie or Danny Welbeck