Football Daily | The good, the bad and the ugly from Premier League’s opening weekend

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Football in August is a lie, as they say in Italy and on the evidence of the opening weekend’s action in the Premier League there’ll be no shortage of managers, players and fans already hoping what they saw unfold before them was fake news. But before Football Daily reacts to what we witnessed in the past three days with a series of potentially ACL-rupturing knee-jerks, it behoves us to doff the company titfer in the direction of Liverpool, Wolverhampton Wanderers and their respective sets of fans, whose heartfelt tributes to their former player Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva could not have been handled more deftly and were both poignant enough to bring a tear to a glass eye. Chapeau to each and every person concerned.I’m ashamed. I’m totally disappointed with our performance [against Vasco]. The fans have every right to protest, obviously without using violence. But if they want to curse and insult, they’re in their right. To sum up our attitude on the field, it was terrible. I’ve never experienced this [a 6-0 defeat] in my life. The tears were from anger, from everything. Unfortunately, I can’t help in every way. I think everyone today needs to go home and think about what they want to do” – Neymar’s return to Santos continues to be emotional – just not in the way he envisaged when he rejoined his boyhood club early this year.Manchester United fans must be revelling in a new-found period of stability. Last season United finished in a distinctly horrible 15th place. But after the first Premier League weekend of the 2025-26 season the Red Devils are 15th. Remarkable, and all it took was forking out £200m for a new forward line. By jingo, they might even score a goal next time — but let’s not get carried away just yet” – Mark McFadden.Well at least some positivity emerged (in our house at least) in the Liverpool v Bournemouth game. Thanks to some especially appalling pronunciation on my part, to the hilarity of my teenage sons I invented a new In The Night Garden character called Ecky-Tecky. Probably friends with Makka Pakka, meaning he’ll have a strange obsession with (John) Stones in due course. Travels separately to games via Ninky Nonk. Anyhoo(ha), erm, must go” – Kevin Goddard.Re: the Marshall Islands section in Friday’s email. When I was a kid I often had a soft spot for teams just because they had a great kit, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. Now, 50 years later, I will be looking out for how the Marshall Islands are doing, because that kit is something else” – Iggy. Continue reading...

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