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Defending Champions: Manchester City
Promoted clubs: Reading, Southampton, West Ham
Season opener: August 18, 2012 (expected)

http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news ... ights.html

Premier League have sold the domestic broadcast rights from 2013-16 for £3.018bn, BSkyB secure 116 matches and BT 38 matches.

ESPN and Al Jazeera are out

More money for the clubs

5DOM wrote:ESPN is out

praise baby jesus

Boognish wrote:

5DOM wrote:ESPN is out

praise baby jesus

Not sure about the overseas rights. That will also probably see a huge rise.

Added to the directory.

Thanks. Should have done that myself.

Redknapp's gone. Moyes and Martinez are front runners

Oddly, Villas Boas is now the standout bookies favourite for the Spurs job. That doesn't necessarily mean a lot (Harry Redknapp was once odds on favourite to be England manager...) but it does have me a little concerned.

Chelsea fans, what were AVB's main failings as manager? I've heard his man management skills were awful and he completely lost the dressing room very early on in his tenure. Was he just unsuited for Chelsea? It's hard to imagine how a man can go from winning a bunk of trophies with Porto to being sacked within months at Chelsea. I really have no idea.

Villas Boas struggled because he tried to impose himself too soon on a veteran team that doesn't like to be told what to do.

He will be perfectly fine on a mobile, young, counter attacking team like the Spurs. Infact I hope he gets the job.

For once Harry got fked playing his own game.

Laudrup replaces Rodgers at Swansea.

NovakZero wrote:Oddly, Villas Boas is now the standout bookies favourite for the Spurs job. That doesn't necessarily mean a lot (Harry Redknapp was once odds on favourite to be England manager...) but it does have me a little concerned.

Chelsea fans, what were AVB's main failings as manager? I've heard his man management skills were awful and he completely lost the dressing room very early on in his tenure. Was he just unsuited for Chelsea? It's hard to imagine how a man can go from winning a bunk of trophies with Porto to being sacked within months at Chelsea. I really have no idea.

He tried to change things too quickly both on and off the pitch.

For the first few months he insisted on playing the only way HE wanted to play when we simply did not have the personnel for that.

Off the pitch, both the veterans and the youngsters had problems with his man management skills. His treatment of respected veterans like Anelka and Alex didn't please many, and it's been said that he wouldn't communicate with any of the players. People quickly blame the old guard, but both the old and the young players clearly did not enjoy working with him if you listen to the interview.

I've come a long way in 2 years to be geeked about the fixture list being released in a few hours.

Spurs and AVB at home would be an awesome start to the season.

One of my friends just posted this on Facebook - had to share it.

Spurs talking to Blanc according to SSN

5DOM wrote:Spurs talking to Blanc according to SSN

Intrigued. He did a great job with that Bordeaux team of a few years back, playing a very Spurs-like formation. He's also turned around the fortunes of a slouching French national squad. Might help our chances in signing Loic Remy, too.

Having read more about AVB's Porto stint and understanding why he failed at Chelsea (thanks to 5DOM and Slava for responding), I wouldn't mind giving him another chance at EPL management. I'd be happy with either him or Blanc. I like David Moyes too, but I'm not sure how I'd feel about him as Spurs manager.

MitchellUK wrote:

One of my friends just posted this on Facebook - had to share it.

Stories like that are just so awesome. Thanks for sharing.

There was another story about Scholes hitting Neville right in the rear while he was taking a leak beside the training pitch from a full pitch distance out.

Shaazzam wrote:

MitchellUK wrote:

One of my friends just posted this on Facebook - had to share it.

Stories like that are just so awesome. Thanks for sharing.

This story is probably fake.i've seen it before attributed to different united players

http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNew ... 14,00.html




I hope the Malaysian bidders withdraw. This could be amazing.