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This weekend’s EPL activity saw the “big 4″ all win while the two fakers to their supremacy were both defeated. Aston Villa came back to where everybody thought they would be, & Blackburn moved to where every person hopes they’ll stay.

The first big event of the season produced a vintage in forward play & a headache in defensive play as Manchester United thrashed Manchester City four-three with Michael Owen coming up in the sixth minute of injury period to claim the victor after Micah Richards went off on his own instead of remaining with his man.

Mark Hughes cried foul, as the fourth referee had originally confirmed that the game might only have four minutes of injury play, 1 minute prior to City tied it up in the last moment, as it turns out, the celebration lasted for 1 minute.

Moreover, the injury time allotted is a) at the referee’s discretion and b) available for both franchises. I wonder if Hughes might offer the goal back if it was City that had scored?

For utter entertainment the game was a delight to watch, a real seven goal affair.

Defensively it was a mess.

Shay Given made one of the most horrible errors of his lifetime for Fletcher?s 1st, Rio Ferdinand had an utter gaffe and was the distinct reason for two of City?s scores.

While Sir Alex Ferguson will be putting Edwin van der Sar into a type of rehab tank to get him back playing as quick as viable, lets just say that Ben Foster will not be Capello?s first selection in South Africa.

Peter Kenyon’s leaving from his Head Executive role at Chelsea comes as no surprise, Eugene Tenenbaum isn?t a fan of the ex-United executive and he has been operating on rented time since Scolari’s dismissal.

There’s a heap of in-battling & back biting in the corridors of power at Chelsea that might threaten to derail all of the franchise’s nice work.

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Which version of Jason Campbell is it Washington football enthusiasts can anticipate this season? The quarterback that is disliked and halfway out of town? Or might he be the 2nd coming of Doug Williams, as Clinton Portis has so expressively revealed recently?

Campbell’s execution is what this season is all about. Clinton Portis might close out this season with about eleven thousand rush yards through his lifetime, positioning himself for Hall of Fame contemplation with nearly 3 or 4 good seasons left in his playing days.

It won’t make a difference.

Malcolm Kelly may prove to be among the elite jovial receivers in the league this year, capable of drawing parallels to Andre Johnson and Calvin Johnson by season’s end.

It will not mean much.

Brian Orakpo might be the next version of Lawrence Taylor, wreaking havoc on the left side of the entire NFC East.

It won’t mean much.

The only thing matters is that the team comes out on top in a minimum of 10 contests, and that their quarterback is the most eminent figure in every one of these expected ten victories.

Ignore the reality that he went half a season in ’08 lacking an interception, it was all about the amazing Clinton Portis at some point in that span. When the tide turned on the franchise, it was not Clinton Portis that took the criticism.

It was Campbell, who was not the sole individual with lessened production during the blackout, although was the only recipient of the talk radio and newspaper drama that followed.

Most people are in Jason Campbell’s defense, and nobody leads up that corner’s cheers louder than me.

But from a place of objectivity, there is a fine line between brilliance and mess for him this approaching year, and nothing else Washington might do or is able to do will overshadow the consistency he must show from week one and beyond.

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