Sky is the Limit...
Sky are opening the forthcoming exciting season with an absolute blinder of a match, newly promoted Sunderland against fourth place Tottenham. Fourth place Tottenham, London's top club will play the Black Cats on Saturday 11th of August, KO at 12:45. Sky have done the obvious thing, now we have sold our headline hitting French striker Jeremie Aliadiere, and we are therefore obviously now shite, and put our games on in September, formerly knows as the Spurs graveyard match slot. Naturally, man united and Chelsea are on during the first weekend as Sky want to showcase their two favourite clubs.

A Sky spokesman said : "We shall cover every Premier League club in the first four months of the season and we shall also see last season's top four go head to head in four big games. The top four feature in another eleven live games in this first tranche of selections, and there will be more to come later in the season...." When asked about Arsenal, the spokesman said: "Who...?" Fourth place Spurs, now the new Arsenal are on an incredible FOUR times during August, while we have to wait until September for our first live game...

Arenal Live Sky Games: AUGUST - None. SEPTEMBER - Sun 2: Arsenal v Portsmouth (1.30pm) OCTOBER Sun 28: Liverpool v Arsenal (4pm) NOVEMBER Sat 3: Arsenal v Man Utd (12.45pm)

Real Deal for Cesc...?
Real Madrid's Sporting Director Predrag Mijatovc has said that the could be after former Barcelona starlet, Cesc Fabregas. In fact, the story is just another recycling of an old quote, with Mijatovic saying: "Of course we are interested in Cesc. We've been interested in him for over a year now and we are still. He is a great player and I expect all the big clubs will be interested..."

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A Pinch of Salt and Wenger...
Madrid also clam theu have been in talks with Arsene Wenger about him taking over at the Bernabeu. Despite having a year left of his current Arsenal deal. "Once it was decided that Capello wouldn't continue, Mijatovic opened talks with Schuster, Koeman, Laudrup and Wenger but without reaching an agreement with any of them..." However, Arsenal were quick to deny the talks had taken place: "That is completely untrue. Arsene Wenger has not had talks with Real Madrid and is committed to Arsenal Football Club..."

Getting Shirty...
Various stories during this very slow news weekend, with reports that the club have retired the number 14 shirt. Yawn... they haven't. Theo Walcott has been handed the number 32 for the new season, with Eduardo given Jose Antonio's number nine shirt...

Short Shorts...
Sagna and Gouffran expected to sign this week, we have another gut feeling of a bigger name... more later...

Keeper Eyed...
Tribal Football have made up the story that we, like Liverpool wll pay through the nose for Brescia keeper Viviano...

Cesc Tipped Off Torres...
Liverpool's new signing Fernando Torres has been speaking out about his move to Anfield, claiming that The Cesc tipped him off, Fab! In the weekends The News of the World, Torres says: "Cesc has triumphed at Arsenal and, after speaking to him several times, I thought to myself: 'Why can't I repeat my experience?'. He told me the key is not to get desperate if things go against me. I understand the first few months at Anfield will not be easy but I'm determined to overcome every obstacle..." Torres also mentions that we put a bid in for him in 1999, but he turned it down, choosing to stay at Athletico Madrid...