Back from Scotland, weekend thoughts, tomorrow's podcast.

Hello everyone.

I'm back from bonnie Scotland - It was aiiiggght.

No it was really good. Go Edinburgh before you die, it is well worth a visit.

The football from this weekend kept up the good start to the Premier League season with some drama, talking points and entertaining games.

All the big points will be looked at during the Direct Football Podcast which should be up on itunes and on the net for download tomorrow night.

Looking at things game by game we will start with the big shock result on Saturday which was Wigan defeat of Spurs at White Hart Lane. I was over the moon as I hate Tottenham and relish in seeing them suffer. The match of the day highlights didn't show us much and I get the impression that Spurs just never really got going until the last ten minutes. On the other hand Wigan seemed dangerous - due mostly to Spurs' shambolic defence - and deservedly took the three points. For Spurs there was a lot of talk about 'reality checks' and 'first European hangovers'. Naivety is what I would call it. You spank somebody in the Champions League and assume your next opponents are there for the taking. Well Spurs have got to realise quickly that these 'hangovers' wont get any easier. They will get a lot, lot harder. Hosting Young Boys on a Wednesday, followed by a home tie with a confidence shot Wigan on a Saturday should not be difficult.

Try travelling out into Europe - Russia or the Ukraine on a Wednesday night then having to go away up-norff on a Saturday afternoon. Everton, Sunderland or Newcastle. That is hard. They need a slightly bigger squad, and I'm sure they will add in the last few days of the window.

Arsenal are still going for Mark Schwarze and they got a solid result against Blackburn on Saturday. First half was very entertaining - end to end, competitive and a couple of good goals. Myself and Buttsy discussed Theo Walcott on last week's pod. I'm not going to say his goal proves anything, but it was a fucking good finish.

United and Chelsea got expected and comfortable home wins. That leaves the top three looking pretty familiar....but it is very, very early.

Liverpool also picked up a win against West Brom which I have absolutely nothing to say about. Nothing. Actually....good goal by Torres. That is it. Oh, and it wasn't a red card....

City lost. Makes people who were saying they could win the league last week look a bit stupid eh?!?!?! Nah, like I say, nothing to read into that. Interesting that City drew a blank - with the attacking talent they have they should be getting goals. However, therein lies the issue - who is the best combination up top? It was a stupid pen to give away and it was poor defending by Toure...

Villa got a very valuable win against Everton after a terrible week. The toffees have had a terrible time at the start of the season (thanks mostly to me saying that they wouldn't do so). Meanwhile on Sunday morning, Bolton and Birmingham played out an entertaining game which ended in a fair point in my view.

Newcastle and Wolves gave us plenty of food for discussion in Salgado Watch for tomorrow's podcast. Was a 'bruising' game and a point both teams would be happy with. And Blackpool opened up their account at Bloomfield Road by grabbing a point from Fulham. Well done them, was a good game that.

That was about that - there were some big talking points, red cards, pens and discussions all to be addressed tomorrow evening in the podcast. On top of that we will have a run down of Capello's England squad for the Euro qualifiers and just generally rambling about football things.

So for now I shall leave you with another recommendation, to follow up from the Edinburgh one: listen to the podcast on itunes or podbean.com tomorrow night!

Cheers