Had to be Arsenal v Man Utd on Saturday. Easily the best game of Premier League football that I’ve seen in a long, long, time. Both teams are young and so you’d expect a lot of energy but it was the closest thing to basketball you’ll ever see on a football pitch. One end to the other, chance after chance. The only downer on it was that United lost but I’ll forgive them that, some times pure entertainment goes a long way! It’s helped to tighten things up at the top of the table and once again it’s looking like the usual 4 suspects who are going to be in contention.

I didn’t really get much of a chance to watch many more games, was my daughters birthday on Saturday so that took up a lot of the day and resultant hangover on the Sunday killed the chance of my doing much. I did catch MOTD though and once again it looks like refs are in the spotlight. It’s bloody wrong! The Arsenal United game was a cracker with all the conversation afterwards being about how great the game was, no mention of the referee and that’s the way it should be. Every other Premier League game over the weekend though has been dominated and influenced by refs and it’s the key talking point again. If they’re that shit can’t we just sack them? They are pro’s and paid to do a job, if they can’t do it well enough then get shut and bring in some new blood.

It’s been a great weekend and hopefully it can carry on tomorrow and Wednesday. There are plenty of all Premier League clashes to look forward to in the Carling Cup, probably most notable is Spurs – Liverpool on Wednesday night.