Neil

Howay Crawley, prove your promotion credentials.

Arsenal fortunate to be ahead really.

Go for Johnson or Cole then. But there's no surprise Baines is £8m.

Unfortunately true, hope Gibbs proves me wrong. Right on time.

Gibbs and Clichy are equally huge liabilities defensively.

This is appalling defending from Arsenal. They look absolutely clueless whenever Udinese come forward They have to hope they get a 2nd goal and Udinese's confidence goes.

Because he got the most points last season?

Arsenal look like they're going to concede every time Udinese go forward.

Done.

Make it quantifiable. How many goals?

Define a flop.

There's that Arsenal keeper making a mess of a simple job. Sound familiar?

Nice defending from Vermaelen in the Udinese box.

Cogged out for 5 minutes there. Cogging out on and off. Anything serious or just me mucking up?

Think Arsenal will win, but don't think it'll be comprehensive. 2-0/2-1.

And £5 on Sheff Utd, Southampton DNB, Crystal Palace DNB. Literally going wild in the aisles with me money.

£12.93 on Arsenal and Crawley.

The league registers my GW1 score in the league standings despite not joining until after it? Good stuff.

Oh it's a bit of a mess, I agree. Disruption at corners as you say - the application of the rules is horrendously inconsistent.

Flexibility in terms of what is excessive force, sure, that is the referee's job to determine what is excessive force. Barton used excessive force when not challenging for the ball. He is guilty of violent conduct. He should have been sent off. If Barton pushed him he'd be using 'excessive force' man Force should technicaly be never used AT ALL in an off the ball incident, but going word for word by those rules we'd see players sent off for jostling in the box before a corner. He hauled him up by his shirt, man. How many times do you see something like that? That's excessive force in my book. Without doubt. Cowardly and malicious.

Flexibility in terms of what is excessive force, sure, that is the referee's job to determine what is excessive force. Barton used excessive force when not challenging for the ball. He is guilty of violent conduct. He should have been sent off.

A quick search tells me Ronny got a hatrick.

Barton used excessive force and hence committed violent conduct. I don't particularly agree with how it's worded but there should be equal application of the rules, no? It just shows the issue with the application of the so-called rules of football. In other words:

Finally added myself to the N-O league, assume I'll be registered as being in that league from this gameweek coming? I'll keep in mind I need my GW1 score on, not that I'll be in serious contention.

62. Good start.