The First of the Month

So, the season got off to an interesting start for the bottom four. Or 'should' they be the bottom four? What do you think?

Sunderland
What a great start for Keano. His ideologies of solid defence and putting his money on the table by getting a 9 million pound goalkeeper seemed to have been spot on.

Build a solid back four and who knows, you can steal your way into the top four by scoring last minute goals. What a way to answer your doubting fans who give you stick for being one of the big rivals players by sticking in one in the 93rd minute of play to give your time their first win of the Premiership season

Verdict: 8/10


Derby
What a scare for Portsmouth - they were definitely luck to not have lost all three points!
These boys have come out to play.

Verdict: 7/10


Birmingham
Before the game, Michael Essien said: "Lose to Birmingham? Us? Not this lifetime!" I'm sure his heart was racing at 1000 miles after the beautiful goal from Kapo which is currently contender for Goal of the Season.
It raced by Petr Cech at 72.6 mph - that's above the national speed limit!

Verdict: 8.5/10


Manchester United
I'm not sure what that array of talent that should have been walking to the 90th minute up 3 nil against poor 10 man reading was doing.
Why would you have them warming leather on the open air Audi seats instead of doing damage to Marcus Hahnemann's goal?

At the end of the day Hahnemann was MVP and all the Mancs could show for it was [yet again] metatarsal hell.
Will the Mancs adjust to life after Wazza fast enough or are we going to experience opening day jitters carrying forward?

Verdict: 2.1/10 [After all they are defending champions!]