Sturridge is one of the small few who suffer from being underrated for being English IMO. He is an excellent and natural finisher. He was punted out to the wing at Chelsea, and his selfishness didn't do him any favours there, but playing as a central midfield he is a very adept good and greedy forward.
Trixie on Swansea, Southampton, West Ham this weekend. Resisted the temptation to stick Swansea and Southampton in at -1, but think they both may very well win by more than one goal against very poor defences (NUFC and Everton respectively).
On the topic of Ranieri, despite the opening day pummeling of the mackems, I still reckon he'll manage them to relegation this year given the chance to tinker for long enough.
Not a good sign, but a good outcome: finally blindly followed Kaiz on this staebaek business and won £100. About 250 up for the weekend but still disproportionately upset about the Chelsea result. Later this season I'll
I'll look back at this situation with envy obviously.