For the first time ever...Good evening!

Good evening.

"That's new!" I hear you cry.

Yes I am transferring my entries to the evenings because of new early morning commitments involving trains and shit, so my time is now in the dark hours.

It allows me to reflect on a day that has just past, rather than looking ahead much.

So looking back at today. Not a lot happened but there are some tasty transfer rumours flying around.

Yesterday James Milner completed his move to Manchester City so well done him. It is a good signing and 24 million plus Ireland whilst being a little too much is pretty close to a fair price. It may be that Milner has some sell-on value for City on top of the clear quality he will bring to the squad.

Other than that things still rumble onward with the Blackburn story with the typical stories about "transfer war chests" and shit like that. Good luck to them, but I cannot see whoever invests having as much at their disposal as most other teams in the Prem have now. Sunderland and Birmingham spring to mind - loads of cash, no appeal to top players. Except for Chucho...oh and Darren Bent....and Bramble? hmmmm.

Meanwhile, in tonight's football Villa got what should be a decent draw away to Rapid Vienna - they should really progress now with the home leg to come. Youngsters Albrighton and Bannan linked up to give Villa the lead, nice to see for the Villa faithful no doubt.

Liverpool have just beaten Trabzonspor 1-0, Celtic have beaten Utrecht 2-0 and City got a 1-0 win away at Tiramasu. Wel done all of them. L'pool could be in a spot of bother though...Turkey never easy! I mean, they should be ok...but you never know. L'pool have been growing in confidence recently and they would be wise not to get to complacent, there is still a lot of work for them to do!

Hope the transfers start flying around soon, its getting a bit turgid now. The last week of the window should be outrageous though!

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So tomorrow I will be putting up our predictions for this weeks Premier League games! If Lawro gets his arse in gear that is! Stay tuned lovers.

Cant wait for the weekend. Cheers