This Weekend's Fixtures & Two Others (18/19/20/22 Aug).

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Lukaku loves benches.

I think I went for a draw here, dunno why, you often win at the Hawthornes.

On the other hand,

Liverpool have won their opening Premier League fixture only twice in the last nine seasons.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

West Ham: Jaaskelainen, Demel, Reid, Collins, McCartney, Noble, Diame, Nolan, Vaz Te, Cole, Taylor.
Subs: Henderson, Tomkins, Maynard, Maiga, O'Brien, Diarra, O'Neil.

Aston Villa: Given, Lowton, Vlaar, Clark, Baker, Holman, El Ahmadi, Delph, N'Zogbia, Ireland, Bent.
Subs: Guzan, Bannan, Weimann, Lichaj, Herd, Burke, Gardner.

Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

On the other hand,

Ah, that's why!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

QPR: Green, Onuoha, Ferdinand, Hill, Da Silva, Taarabt, Park, Diakite, Hoilett, Mackie, Cisse.
Subs: Murphy, Derry, Johnson, Wright-Phillips, Nelsen, Dyer, Zamora.

Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Williams, Chico, Taylor, de Guzman, Michu, Britton, Dyer, Graham, Routledge.
Subs: Cornell, Tate, Moore, Agustien, Gower, Richards, Tremmel.

Referee: Lee Probert (Wiltshire)

Michu.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fulham: Schwarzer, Riether, Hangeland, Hughes, Riise, Duff, Diarra, Dembele, Kacaniklic, Ruiz, Petric.
Subs: Stockdale, Kelly, Baird, Sidwell, Kasami, Rodallega, Halliche.

Norwich: Ruddy, Russell Martin, Ryan Bennett, Turner, Tierney, Pilkington, Howson, Johnson, Surman, Snodgrass, Holt.
Subs: Rudd, Hoolahan, Morison, Elliott Bennett, Vaughan, Barnett, Lappin.

Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland)

[Master Splinter]

Savage and Crooks: the inmates have not just taken over the asylum, they've smeared it with their shit.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Reading: Federici, Gunter, Pearce, Gorkss, Harte, Leigertwood, Robson-Kanu, Guthrie, McAnuff, Le Fondre, Pogrebnyak.
Subs: McCarthy, Mariappa, Hunt, McCleary, Tabb, Church, Cummings.

Stoke: Begovic, Huth, Wilkinson, Whelan, Wilson, Shawcross, Kightly, Whitehead, Etherington, Walters, Crouch.
Subs: Sorensen, Jones, Ness, Delap, Shotton, Jerome, Palacios.

Referee: Kevin Friend (Leicestershire)

[Rors]

"I didn't know Clint Dempsey before he came to England"

I'd have put money on that Merse....

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I'm a little shocked he knows him now.

[Rors]

All our debutantes starting. Tells its own story.