Here We Go!

THREE months deprivation of bona fide football matches is about to end in less than 24 hours, thank goodness. I confess I’m a Premiership footie junkie; most of you are too I believe.
I had survived on measly molecules of footballing oxygen (in the form of friendlies and pre-season warm-ups); and now as our withdrawal syndrome is about to be a thing of the past, let us welcome the start of the new Premiership season!

Note: With the start of the 2009/10 Premiership season, The Mancunian Connection (TMC) will also cast a keen eye on the other three ‘Big Four’ clubs and their exploits (Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea, in that particular HATE order).

In action this week (all matches at Malaysian time):

Saturday, 15 Aug:
Chelsea vs Hull City (7.45pm)
TMC’s prediction: Chelsea 3 Hull 0

Sunday, 16 Aug:
Everton vs Arsenal (12.30am)
TMC’s prediction: 2-2 draw (Go Toffees!)

Man Utd vs Birmingham City (8.30pm)
TMC’s prediction: United 3 City 1

Spurs vs Liverpool (11pm)
TMC’s prediction: 3-2 home win (Go Spurs!)

Since Man City has been hogging the headlines in recent months, we need to keep tabs on the team from ‘Waste’lands too:

Blackburn Rovers vs Man City (Sat, 10pm)
TMC's prediction: 2-2 draw (come on you Rovers!)

Who will be the biggest winner this week? Will the Scousers and the Gooners drop points in their potential ‘banana skin’ matches?
Will City’s rich boys be humbled (and humiliated?!) by Mark Hughes’ previous employers at Rovers?

Or will United ‘hit the ground running’ and put on an enthralling overture at the Theatre Of Dreams?
I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

So here we are and there we go!