PREMIER LEAGUE – 22/09/2024 (PHOTO – JOHN STONES CELEBRATES)

CHECK THIS OUT FOR DRAMA AND EXCITEMENT!  IT TOOK ERLING HAALAND ONLY 9 MINUTES TO SCORE HIS 100TH GOAL FOR MANCHESTER CITY YESTERDAY, AND THE SPEED WITH WHICH HE HIT THE BACK OF THE NET, AFTER RUNNING HALF-WAY UP THE PITCH WITH THE BALL WAS SPECTACULAR!  PEP MUST HAVE THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE GAME-OVER, BECAUSE WHEN ARSENAL’S CALAFIORI EQUALISED AT 22 MINS., PASSIONS CERTAINLY BOILED OVER, (THEY MAY NEED A NEW SEAT AT THE ETIHAD NOW!) SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, ARSENAL’S GABRIEL MAGALHAES SCORED A STUNNER AT 45 +1 MINS., AND THE NOISE FROM THE ARSENAL FANS WAS DEAFENING!  BUT AT 45 +8 MINS., ARSENAL’S LEANDRO TROSSARD GOT RED-CARDED AFTER A COUPLE OF CLUMSY TACKLES, AND THEY WERE DOWN TO 10 MEN.  (HE STILL GOT A HUG FROM MIKEL ARTETA WHEN HE WENT OFF THOUGH.)   WITH BOTH TEAMS ON TOP FORM, IT WAS AN UNBELIEVABLE WATCH, WITH MAN CITY BY NOW REALISING WHAT A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH ARSENAL ARE!  SKILLS GALORE ENSUED, AND THEN, IN THE 98TH MINUTE, JOHN STONES SCORED A LATE SCREAMER MEANING THAT THE GAME ENDED IN A 2 – 2 DRAW!  IT WAS TRULY EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT STUFF!  LOVELY JUBBLY!

PREMIER LEAGUE : MANCHESTER CITY VS ARSENAL – 22/09/2024

IT WAS ANOTHER ALL-ACTION MATCH, AND 2 – 2 DRAW OVER AT THE BRIGHTON VS NOTTINGHAM FOREST GAME YESTERDAY, WITH NOTTINGHAM FOREST’S CHRIS WOOD’S  SUCCESSFUL EARLY PENALTY AT 13 MINS. KICKING THINGS OFF, AND THEN WITH BRIGHTON’S JACK HINSHELWOOD EQUALISING A WHILE LATER AT 42 MINS.  AND THEN HIS TEAM-MATE DANNY WELBECK FOLLOWING ON WITH ANOTHER STUNNER AT 45 MINS., BRIGHTON WERE 2 – 1 UP AT HALF-TIME.  BUT THEN IN THE SECOND-HALF THINGS GOT A LITTLE SPICY, WITH REFEREE ROB JONES SENDING OFF BOTH MANAGER’S, NUNO ESPIRITO SANTO AND FABIAN HURZELER, AFTER THINGS GOT HEATED, BECAUSE OF MORGAN GIBBS-WHITE’S DANGEROUS ‘SCISSOR-TACKLE’ ON JOAO PEDRO.  NOTTINGHAM FOREST’S RAMON SOSA WASN’T FAZED THOUGH, AND SCORED A CRACKER SHORTLY AFTERWARDS AT 70 MINS., MEANING THAT THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 2 – 2 DRAW.

PREMIER LEAGUE : BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION VS NOTTINGHAM FOREST – 22/09/2024