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Blog: Premier League Preview: Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest got through four managers last season (Nuno Espirito Santo, Ange Postecoglou, Sean Dyche and Vitor Pereira) so when Oliver Glasner announced he was leaving Crystal Palace it was quite a shock that he ended up at Forest. They come into this game really needing a result after three straight defeats.
Published Friday at 09:36 am on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: Premier League Preview: Manchester City
Title challengers or relegation rivals? A lot will be riding on the outcome of Manchester City's appeal against their 114 charges. Regardless, this will be one of Town's toughest challenges this season.
Published Friday at 12:36 pm on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: Premier League Preview: Fulham
Fulham took a risk with the appointment of Alvaro Arbeloa following the departure of Marco Silva over the summer. Silva had hit all of the targets set out for him and kept Fulham in the top flight for three Premier League seasons without them ever really being in danger of relegation, but it felt like a harmonious parting of ways for both parties when the time came.
Published 1 month ago on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: Premier League Preview: Crystal Palace
It’s a season of transition for Crystal Palace following an historic two years that saw both the FA Cup and then the Europa Conference League trophy make their way into the Selhurst Park trophy cabinet.
Published 2 months ago on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: Premier League Preview: Manchester United
A trip to Manchester United may not be as tough an ask as it once was, but the Red Devils under Michael Carrick are a whole different beast to the team that Kieran McKenna’s Ipswich Town side faced in 2024-25 when the Tractor Boys should have arguably come away with three points at Old Trafford.
Published 2 months ago on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: Between The Lines - The FA Crap Final
This isn't an ITFC poem, but for those of you starved of football-based irreverent poetry, here's my take on last weekend's cup final. Catch a recorded version on the socials soon.
Published 5 months ago on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: Faragegate
"Is that Chelsea?" "How did that happen?" "Massive own goal"
Published 7 months ago on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: The Evolution of Referees
The quality of officials - or lack of it - has taken up a lot of space in Town discussions in the last two weeks or so. Personally, I have been appalled at the penalty decisions which have cost us four points - assuming we had scored the spot-kicks we should have had. And you could extend that to six, if you include the Preston game.
Published 7 months ago on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: Championship Preview: Millwall
Millwall are now one of the most established teams in the Championship having been in the division since 2017. They narrowly missed out on the play-offs last season, finishing eighth, and will be hoping to take the next step this season.
Published 10 months ago on TWTD.co.uk
Blog: Championship Preview: Watford
The first managerial sacking of the season was, surprise, surprise, Watford. Like someone who can’t quite move on from their ex,the Watford board parted company with Paulo Pezzolano after just five months in charge and opted to bring back Javi Gracia for a second spell at the club following his last spell in 2019.
Published about 1 year ago on TWTD.co.uk
| Chelsea's Results | |||
| Nov 8 | Sunderland | 0 - 1 | A |
| Oct 31 | Manchester United | 2 - 0 | H |
| Oct 28 | Liverpool | 1 - 1 | A |
| Chelsea's Fixtures | |||
| Nov 21 | Leeds United | H | |
| Nov 27 | Nottingham Forest | A | |
| Dec 2 | Crystal Palace | H | |
| Premier League Table | ||||
| Pos | Team | Pld | GD | Pts |
| 3 | Man City | 10 | 8 | 21 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 10 | 4 | 18 |
| 5 | Chelsea | 10 | 3 | 16 |
| 6 | Everton | 10 | 2 | 16 |
| 7 | Bournemouth | 10 | 2 | 15 |