Premier League: 10 Things We Learnt From Opening Weekend

The opening weekend of the Premier league season is very much to football fans what Christmas is to six-year-old girls dreaming of owning their own pony. We wait all summer and speculate on transfers, score lines and the managerial merry-go-round all in anticipation for the big kick-off, then it has gone sooner than you can say €˜What? Danny Gabbidon is a Premier League player again?€™ So what questions have been answered from the first round of fixtures? Here we go€

10. The Three That Came Up Will Struggle

Cardiff, Hull and Palace all lost as they endured a baptism of fire on the opening weekend of the season. Welsh new boys Cardiff went down 2-0 to a hard working West Ham side but almost matched them for efforts at goal but perhaps just miss that clinical edge needed to secure Premiership status. Palace worked hard and had a right old go at Champions League hopefuls Tottenham, but Ian Holloway€™s plucky side were given a lesson in the classic €˜how to win when not playing your best€™. Poor old Hull, poor old Steve Bruce, they got a royal run-around at Stamford Bridge against Jose Mourinho€™s title chasing Chelsea. I know it is only one game and I know I probably get stick, but these three teams look like they€™ve got a lot to learn, and quickly, if they are to finish above the drop zone come the middle of May.
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My name is Joe, I study Journalism and Media Production at Huddersfield University. A Sheffield Wednesday fan since a young age and a lover of football in all countries at all levels. Also trying to prove not all is grim up north.