Premiership season has a dull start

The start of the Premiership season is always an exciting time as it is a fresh sense of optimism for all involved (players, fans, the board etc).  Normally there are many exciting high scoring games which makes for an interesting analysis on Match of the Day.

However this year, to be totally honest, the first round of games of the season were a little bit dull.  All in all in the first 9 games of the Premiership season there was 5 draws, 3 of which were scoreless and there was in total 18 goals scored (8 of which came in 2 games).  These 2 games were the exception of course with Bolton and Man City (Sergio Aguero in particular - wish I had him in my dream team ha) sending out clear warnings to new boys QPR and Swansea City. 

In the case of Man City it sent out a warning to the rest of the league of their intentions for this season, although it is hard to gauge as we do not know how well Swansea will handle Premiership life.  In terms of the other top 4 contenders (normally anyway) Man Utd did what they do best and stumbled over the finish line, although new signing De Gea has alot to prove after another mistake.  Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal and failed to record first day wins.  The scoreless draw between Newcastle and Arsenal was probably the biggest surprise considering their game last season.  It also turned out to be the worst game of the opening day thanks to Gervinho diving and slapping, Joey Barton wrestling and then play acting and Steven Taylor claiming to see the non existent.

Chelsea would be happy with a point at Stoke as it is a hard place to go but Liverpool will see their draw as 2 points lost, although good news for them is that Luis Saurez looks to have brought his Copa America form to the new season.

Wolves and Blackburn gave us some entertainment, as did Norwich with their first point of the season but Fulham and Villa played out a result which typified the first weekend for me.  Hopefully this sense of teams not wanting to lose their first game so badly that we got so many draws was just for the first weekend and things will get back to normal from here on in.  It's a long season and more weekends like that one will make it even longer!!! Let's get back to shocks, goals galore and fast paced action from now on please and thank you.