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I am not alone in saying that I had not expected this result.

After a dismal performance at Rotherham a week ago the last thing that Argyle fans wanted was a home game against one of the form teams in League Two.

However supporters do not choose the fixture list and promotion contenders Shrewsbury Town made their way down to Plymouth in form and fully confident of collecting three points. The Shrews left Devon with their tails firmly between their legs after Argyle put in a performance that shocked League Two.

A Paul Wotton goal, his first since his return to the club, gave the Pilgrims all three points and lifted them out the relegation zone to the jubilation of majority of the Home Park crowd.

Argyle manager Carl Fletcher made two changes to the side that lost at Rotherham. Luke Young made way for full league debutant Joe Lennox on the right wing whilst Warren Feeney returned to the starting line up in place of Alex MacDonald.

From the off, one of the changes nearly resulted in a goal. Warren Feeney was inches away from lashing home a loose ball, but beat the post as well as Neal in the Shrewsbury goal. Nick Chadwick then opted against putting his foot through the ball and instead controlled, took on a defender but sadly placed his shot straight at the keeper.

Then, from out of nowhere, Argyle took the lead.

Quite how Chris Neal did not claim Paul Wotton’s curling 30 yard free kick remains a mystery to everybody in Home Park, but the keeper somehow managed to allow the ball through his hands and into his goal when he looked set to make a routine catch. Not that the Green Army cared one bit as they celebrated the first goal on home turf for more than five hours!

The Pilgrims made it to half time unscathed and when they came out of the second half I honestly expected Shrewsbury to throw the kitchen sink at us and equalise, but this was not the case. Argyle were dominating (yes dominating!) the Shrews and should have extended the lead further first through Juvhel Tsoumou’s one-on-one chance and then Robbie Williams floated free kick that was just begging to be headed home.

Alex MacDonald, fresh from the substitute’s bench then cracked the adjournment of post and bar from 20 yards as Argyle continued their search of a second goal to put the game to bed.

It was only a matter of time before Shrewsbury started attacking though, and with about 10 minutes to go Argyle dropped deeper to defend and Salop put to test the Green defence. How Argyle made it through the final period without conceding was nothing short of a miracle, the defending was brave and strong, but Shrewsbury are a strong attacking force and twice when they looked odds on to score they were denied by Argyle keeper Jake Cole, who was in amazing form all game.

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The four minutes of added time were agony for Argyle fans, who were forced to watch Shrewsbury take corner after corner as Argyle failed to clear their lines. The Shrews looked to have got a point with virtually the last kick of the game, but Marvin Morgan hit the bar instead of the back of the net.

There are nine games to go now for Argyle to retain football league status. Should they perform like this for most of those, we should be ok. I’m not getting too carried away just yet though, the battle at the bottom is so tight, if we lose on Tuesday night we could be bottom of the league again.

By Plymouth Argyle blogger Sam Barker

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On a recent slow boat to China or rather my train from West Croydon to Islington, a few friends and I decided to quash the impending boredom by debating the current state of the Premier League. We noted the irony that arguably the worst team of this seasons Champions League qualifiers (Chelsea) had managed to progress the furthest, in what has been another disappointing year in the competition for English clubs. There was a universal agreement that the once acclaimed ‘Top 4’ had become significantly weaker in seasons gone by, but a question mark surrounded whether this had impacted the standard of the Premier League.

The simple and perhaps short-sighted answer is a resounding ‘yes’, the Premier League elite have lost a number of their prized assets that has inevitably weakened the quality of their playing squad. Cristiano Ronaldo and Cesc Fabregas have both achieved their desire to flee to Spain whilst Carlos Tevez and Samir Nasri have joined the revolution at Eastlands. Liverpool’s former talisman Fernando Torres exchanged Merseyside for the nations capital and joined a side that has seen its once imperious team begin to show the effects of old age.

Each club undergoes a transitional period every few years, it’s in the fabric of the game, but it just so happens that the majority of our leading clubs have all decided to do so at the same time. It’s therefore vital that you remain successful during this period, a feat only Sir Alex can claim to have achieved.

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The main victims of this ‘process of change’ have arguably been Arsenal and Liverpool, who have gradually relinquished their roles as title contenders. This opportunity to infiltrate the League’s hierarchy has not gone unnoticed with both Manchester City and Tottenham asserting themselves at the summit of the table. It’s fair to say that the once unyielding ‘big four’ now consists of five or six teams who all look capable of competing with their rivals across the continent.

One of main arguments you’ll hear when individuals are criticising the state of the Premier League is that English teams are no longer present in the latter stages of the Champions League. “In 2008/09 we had three teams in the semi-finals” they’ll cry, as if that is the be all and end all of proceedings and the only way to judge the stature of a team. At the end of the day it’s essentially a cup competition, which teams can share equal measures of good luck and ill-misfortune. Cypriot minnows APOEL defied the odds to reach the quarter-finals but does that mean they’re one of the top 8 sides in the world? The fact that Manchester United were knocked out of the Europa League by Athletic Bilbao who are 7th in La Liga, is not a satisfactory means of claiming the Premier League is somehow inferior than its Spanish counterpart.

I believe the Premier League is nowadays a far more interesting and entertaining spectacle and not as a result of the standard slipping. Yes, the title race involves just two teams from Manchester but then it’s always historically been a two horse race. It’s important to consider the League as a whole entity when you deliberate over its apparent demise, as events at the bottom of the table tell an entirely different story. Long gone are the days of Derby County’s poultry 18 points with many promoted clubs often distancing themselves from their tag as relegation candidates as early as Christmas. Can you imagine a promoted club playing in the same free-flowing style as Swansea a decade ago? Relegated teams are no longer simply bouncing back up from the Championship, which has in itself vastly improved. Instead they have to revaluate their squads and build strong foundations in order to compete with the increasing intensity of the modern game.

Despite the current lull on the European circuit it won’t be long before the quality of the Premier League is once again reflected in the Champions League. The likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid will soon stutter and tumble from their lofty pedestals and I believe there will be an English side ready to take their place.

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After the promotion party has finished and the players depart to their various holiday destinations, for some of the fringe players this will be an uncertain time.

For the ones that are out of contract, their futures will be unclear, 34 year old striker David Connolly will see his existing contract expire in the summer, along with the likes of centre-back Radhi Jaidi, goalkeeper Bartosz Bialkowski, and winger Lee Holmes. These players have been part of the first team squad since the aphotic depths of League One, and who have by and large served the club well in the past two or three seasons. However, in recent months both Connelly and Jaidi have seen their playing time limited due to recurrent injury problems.

To be brutally honest I cannot see any reason why we need to keep any of these players for next season, Jaidi is almost certain to be released, at 36 years old he did not make a single appearance this season due to injury.

As for David Connolly, age is not on his side also, and he has seen his time at the club interrupted by niggling injuries. His late season goals helped to propel the club towards promotion from League One, and he started this season in a rich vein of form, helping the Saints to lead the table with 4 goals in the first 5 games. However, the goals soon dried up, and he found himself either dropped through poor form or through injury.

If we were still in the Championship for another season then he may well have been awarded a new contract, but our promotion to the Premier League leaves manager Nigel Adkins with a difficult decision. The only thing in Connolly’s favour is the fact that he is one of the few existing players in the squad who have experience of playing in the Premier League. Although I firmly believe that the club will be looking for new acquisitions in all areas to help secure our Premier League status.

Bartosz Bialkowski may well earn himself a new contract, but personally I’d like to see us sign a new goalkeeper, one who can learn from number one, Kelvin Davis and challenge him for a starting place. I have little faith in Bialkowski, especially after his “rabbit in the headlights” display in his one and only league start against Blackpool in December.

That was probably one of the dire goalkeeping displays by a Saints goalkeeper I have witnessed, and I have seen Dave Beasant play! Not only did he proceed to fumble the ball at every opportunity, like someone attempting to grasp a wet bar of soap whilst wearing boxing gloves, but he then gifted Blackpool a goal by letting an innocuous shot from distance, through his legs. All this live on television to boot, in fact so low was his managers faith in him that he actually got dropped from the bench, with manager Nigel Adkins naming five outfield substitutes for a considerable part of the season.

Lee Holmes has never been able to hold down a regular first team place, and this season he joined League Two side Swindon Town, where he helped them to win the League Two championship. I can see him making that move permanent in the summer if Paolo Di Canio liked what he saw from the winger.

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That leaves one or two players who although not out of contract, may be shown the door anyway. Both had off the field problems during the season, and they are Lee Barnard and Dan Seaborne. Both Barnard and Seaborne were involved in disturbances in different night clubs, with Seaborne obtaining serious head injuries, and Barnard suffering a hand injury and being accused of a serious assault. Seaborne has recovered fully but not in time to make a comeback this season and Barnard was found not guilty but only made a couple of appearances this season and not one league start. The management may well decide to dispense with their services during the summer, as I doubt that either is really up to Premier League standard and they seem more trouble than they are worth.

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According to the Daily Mirror this morning, Salomon Kalou is keen on joining Arsenal, having become a free agent after being released by London rivals Chelsea.

Arsene Wenger is believed to be a long term admirer of the Ivory Coast star, but must first concentrate on clearing the Emirates wage bill, as fringe players are due to be shown the door.

Kalou is expected to want a high wage demand of £70,000 a week, but is also subject to interest from Liverpool and Schalke.

With Andrei Arshavin expected to make his loan deal at Zenit a permanent one, Kalou could provide the attacking threat to the Gunners midfield they will need to push for honours next season.

The Ivorian was considered surplus to requirements at Stamford Bridge, as the Blues captured the much sought after Eden Hazard to replace him. Whilst he is keen on joining Arsenal, Liverpool are not out of the equation as manager Brendan Rodgers looks to strengthen his new squad.

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Arsenal seem very keen to recruit attacking prowess in an attempt to take the goal scoring burden from club captain Robin Van Persie, as the potential signing of Kalou would complement the arrival of Lukas Podolski from Koln.

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New Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has hailed outgoing Reds boss Kenny Dalglish and admitted that the Scot is always welcome back at the club.

The Anfield outfit’s owners Fenway Sports Group decided to axe the legendary Merseyside figure after a disappointing 2011-12 season, with the Swansea City trainer the man to take over in the hotseat.

The Northern Irish boss has stated that Dalglish is always welcome back at the club and that he will not be able to compare to the Reds great.

“I have the ultimate respect for Kenny Dalglish,” The Guardian report Rodgers as saying.

“My door is always open for Kenny Dalglish. This is his home. He is the heart and soul of this club. His love for this club is unrivalled. He is the best player in the history of this club.

“I am not here to win any race or competition. This guy is a legend in the game and here at Liverpool Football Club. But what I know is history judges you as a manager and hopefully in time people will look back at what I have achieved here and I can walk beside these people.

“But there is no way I can try and overtake someone like Kenny Dalglish. All I can do is be myself. This is a prestigious club and this is a guy who has a wonderful history here and will continue to have a great future in terms of Liverpool. I can’t worry about that. The only way you can overcome that is by winning,” he concluded.

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By Gareth McKnight

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Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech has revealed that foul language is part of the game, and will never be eradicated.

John Terry’s court case for supposedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand showcased the amount of swearing on the pitch, even at the top level, and the Czech Republic star feels this will continue.

“If every player had a microphone some people would be very surprised about what gets said on a football pitch,” Cech told The Sun.

“I think football always has been, and always will be, the same.

“You have a lot of adrenaline, a lot of joy, a lot of frustration. You cannot really take this away from the sport.

“You live the game for 90 minutes, 100 per cent focused, and you want the game to go your way.

“Sometimes the frustration or the happiness makes you swear and do things like that, but it is OK,” he continued.

Meanwhile, Cech has stated that the Stamford Bridge club must continue with business as usual after their captain was cleared of the racism charges.

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“We need to forget about the past and concentrate on the future. That is the only way,” he concluded.

By Gareth McKnight

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Newcastle manager Alan Pardew feels that Andy Carroll’s future at Liverpool is doomed, and that the England international will be sold this summer.

The Anfield club have replaced Kenny Dalglish with Brendan Rodgers this summer, with the Northern Irish boss looking to revamp the Reds’ playing squad.

Carroll is seemingly not part of Rodgers’ plans, and has been linked with a move away from Merseyside.

Despite the new trainer stating that Carroll will not leave on loan, a transfer may well be in order, and Pardew has stated that he does not see the striker staying at Liverpool for much longer.

“It’s a delicate situation,” Pardew told the Hartlepool Mail.

“It’s a transfer that I’m not particularly involved in, and it’ll stay like that. I think that it’ll still be a board level thing between Liverpool and whichever club takes Andy.

“I think that the writing is on the wall that Andy will go out of there in the summer. We’re just keeping a close eye on it.

“I thought that Alan Shearer’s comments were correct. There aren’t many clubs that Andy Carroll can go to. He needs to be a success this time,” Pardew concluded.

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Newcastle have been linked with a move for their former attacker but as yet there has been no news over progress of a deal.

By Gareth McKnight

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With the Premier League a little under a week away, Football FanCast decided to get their season preview underway by looking at the vast array of strips that the clubs will be sporting this year.

I remember a time in football when Manchester United were chastised by rival clubs for the way they would bring out a brand new strip every season, and accused the Red Devils of treating their supporters with contempt by tempting them into the club shop to buy the latest strip. It appears times have changed and as football slowly becomes big business, it has been a case of ‘if you can’t beat them, then join them’.

The beginning of the summer months is always surrounded with supporters revealing some apparent leaked designs they have got hold of, while others use Photoshop to create their own version of the strips, to tease supporters on the various blogs and forums out there and convince them that is the kit their respective club will be sporting next season. They are very rarely right, but it doesn’t stop the public buying into it.

Anyway the official kits are now out, so sit back and see what the Premier League clubs will be sporting this 2012-13 season.

Click on one of the worst football kits of all time below to unveil the Premier League’s latest offering

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Following a relatively indifferent start to the Premier League season, Mark Hughes won’t need to need to be reminded just how important it is that his QPR team start winning games.

An impressive recruitment drive that’s seen the likes of Esteban Granero and Julio Cesar come to Loftus Road, has led some observers to tout Hughes’ men for a mid-table finish.

But the realities of what constitute a successful season for the R’s, lie simply in their need to avoid relegation. Whatever happens this term, as long as they avoid dropping out of the riches of the Premier League, it must be consigned as a success. Otherwise, this could be one rollercoaster ride that comes to a very nasty end indeed.

There’s no doubt that on paper, QPR now possess a squad that should at least be making a decent shot at survival. The now possesses a Champions League winning goalkeeper in Julio Cesar. The duo of Park Ji-Sung and Jose Bosingwa are both players who have excelled at the very top and the likes of Andy Johnson, Bobby Zamora and Djibril Cisse are all more than capable of scoring goals in this league.  Throw in the likes of Adel Taarabt, Alejandro Faurlin and Junior Hoilett and you can understand why some may feel safety is something of a banker at Loftus Road. A little short at the back perhaps, but Hughes doesn’t possess a bad squad at all.

Whether he can them all to gel and play cohesively for the rest of the term is a different matter, but there’s still no guarantees of Premier League safety- bigger and better teams have succumbed to the trap door of English football’s top tier and QPR are no different.

The question mark that appears to be hanging over the West London club, however, is more of what happens if they do end up slipping back into the Championship. QPR did an awful lot of business during the summer and on paper, you’d feel as if the books were relatively balanced. They brought 11 players in but shipped out 13 before the window slammed shut. But although the wage bill is now bereft of the likes of Peter Ramage and Danny Shittu it now beholds the likes of Esteban Granero and Julio Cesar.

Indeed, Tony Fernandes’ intense recruitment drive since January has been perceived in many quarters to be a high risk, heavily invested game of chance. Throw money at the team in an attempt to secure the desperately needed status of Premier League football in the short-term and reap the rewards of fiscal benefits in the long-run. Of course, it is not that simple. But the stakes still remain high, whatever way you look at it.

The crux of the issue revolves far more around the expenditure on wages, than it does on transfer fees, which even then is hard to gauge without the publishing of the most recent accounts. QPR have hardly gone on some irresponsible summer spend. The realms of the undisclosed fee make it a bit more difficult to judge exactly how much they’ve spent, but the majority of their business has been on free transfers and loan deals. Considering their most expensive acquisition was that of Granero for an initial £6.5million (rising to £9million with add-ons), they’ve not done badly at all.

But the issue resides more with the money paid out in the realm of wages, singing on fees and clauses in these new contracts. Again, making judgments upon accounts that we’ve yet to see is perhaps foolish, but even basic speculation suggests that maybe some risk has been taken with Fernandes’ approach.

Because in terms of revenue streams, you would imagine that QPR are putting a lot of eggs in the bag of the lucrative television money they receive from being in the Premier League. A very rough estimate would suggest that the latest TV money would be worth at least £40million as a basic figure- quite the boost to the club’s coffers. Because when you consider they have an average Loftus Road attendance of around 17,000, the revenue certainly isn’t coming from matchday income.

One figure people seem to like to bash QPR round the head with, was their last published accounts figure in which wages accounted for an astonishing 183% of revenue. What some kept forgetting is that the books are always for the year before- which would be QPR’s promotion winning season. This doesn’t account for the new television money or the bonuses and activated clauses that were triggered as a result of promotion. But it’s still an alarming figure.

Furthermore in August of last year and January, when Fernandes had to spend big to keep the club afloat, there is evidence to suggest that the clubs recruitment drive this year might not necessarily be bulletproof. The likes of Joey Barton, Djibril Cisse and Bobby Zamora et al were widely reported to have no relegation clauses built into their extremely lucrative contracts. Some may argue that may have been the only way to attract them to a club that was still in real danger of relegation, but it represents an undeniably reckless strategy if true. If the latest batch of signings – you would have thought the likes of Cesar would be at least – earning within the £50k to £70k mark are without similar clauses, they could be in real trouble if they go down.

The notion is that QPR would be forced to sell these players at an outrageously cheap rate, if not for free, should they go down. And considering most came in on free transfers or for a pittance, then that’s not a problem. But many of these players are at the wrong end of 20 and getting rid of players like Zamora and Wright-Philips, who are on those sort of wages, could be tough. We’ve seen before with Winston Bogarde and more recently Wayne Bridge that not every player will happily give up their pay packet. Even the Premier League parachute payments would struggle to cover QPR if they had to pay those sort of wages in the Championship.

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Tony Fernandes is no mug of a businessman and he recently stated:

“We’re not panic-buying; we’re not spending beyond our means; and we’re certainly not throwing money away like some are reporting. 

“We’ve got a very strict and precise business plan in place at this club and any deal we do for a player is well within our budget.” 

Whether that is media spin or good, honest, business acumen, all will be revealed in good time. Fernandes’ plans for the future are bold and if Hughes can keep the team up this year, securing the financial stability they need, there’s no reason why they can’t achieve their goals. But in the meantime, they simply cannot afford to move back own into the Championship. QPR fans know all too well the pain of financial disarray. Only if they do succumb to relegation, will we truly see the logic in the last 12 months worth of boardroom decisions.

How do you feel about QPR’s chances for the new season? Are you confident that Fernandes is managing the club well or do you fear the ramifications of relegation? Let me know what you think on Twitter: follow @samuel_antrobus and bat me your views. 

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Liverpool will travel to the Stadium of Light to face Sunderland on Saturday, with both sides desperately seeking their first win of the season.

Sunderland have held Arsenal and Swansea in their previous away matches, impressing on both occasions, whilst Liverpool have suffered their worst start to a season in 50 years, collecting just one point from a possible nine.

Brendan Rodgers side lost 2-0 at home to Arsenal last time out, where there lack of threat in front of goal was particularly evident.

Liverpool fans are still wondering how their season will shape up, following the clubs disastrous deadline day business, where they failed to secure a replacement for Andy Carroll, leaving the club with just two senior strikers.

One of which is Fabio Borini, a 21-year-old signed from Roma in the summer, with no previous Premier League experience.

Sunderland has not been a particularly happy ground for Liverpool in recent years, losing twice 1-0 in the past three meetings, one of which was to the famous ‘beach ball’ goal.

Rodgers will be desperate to record his first league victory as Liverpool manager, especially with his side occupying a relegation spot, and the visit of Manchester United on the horizon.

Joe Cole (hamstring) and Lucas (thigh) remain the only names on the injury list.

Sunderland meanwhile are set to welcome back Lee Cattermole, Phil Bardsley, Wes Brown and David Vaughn, as they too search for their first win of the season.

However Adam Johnson is likely to miss out having withdrawn himself from the England squad in midweek with a thigh injury.

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Prediction: Sunderland 0-0 Liverpool

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