Premier League Bingo: Gameweek Five

Premier League Bingo: Gameweek Five
15:55, 14 Sep 2017

Until 'Super Sunday', last week's action had all you could want from a Premier League weekend: a controversial red card that split pundits and friendships, a feast of goals, and Mark Hughes getting embroiled in another handshake fiasco.

Let's hope for more of the same this time around, as we turn our attention to the fifth edition of Premier League Bingo...

Wayne Rooney shaking the hand of an unknown Man Utd steward in the Old Trafford tunnel

Have Sky Sports ever videoed a player returning to a former club without that player getting off the team coach, walking down the tunnel, and greeting a hi-vis, bald steward with a handshake? Beats me. Expect to see more of this vintage match build-up footage with a David Jones voiceover come Sunday.

Mané v Ederson being used as case law for every high foot challenge 

The divisiveness of the Mané red card made it the runaway story of gameweek four. The only problem now is that every high foot challenge will use the incident as citation for why a player should be sent off (or not), which will be a draining process over the course of the season.

Roy Hodgson's arrival being the only thing stopping Crystal Palace v Southampton being last on MOTD

Poor Frankie de Boer was given his P45 by Palace this week - one tick on last week's bingo card - as owl lookalike Roy Hodgson was thrusted into the Selhurst Park dugout. With three goals between both sides so far this season, this game has all the ingredients for a scrappy under 1.5, though the newsy allure of Roy may just mean viewers have only one eye closed when Lineker introduces this one.

Another immortal set of Arsenal Fan TV videos being produced

To picture Chelsea losing at home to Arsenal is nauseating. It's almost common courtesy for Wenger's men to capitulate at the Bridge, thus sparking livid post-match interviews with Arsenal fans, which are then later guffawed at by victims of a YouTube black hole. With the teams' form going into Sunday, you'd expect another victory for the Blues. Here's to more incoherent sentences with a lot of swearing this weekend.

Thinking Friday is the better time to have midweek football until 8pm Monday evening

It's the return of the half-heartedly promoted Friday Night Football this week, with Bournemouth v Brighton headlining. It's a great feeling coming back from work on Friday and starting the weekend with Premier League action: "This is a better time than Mondays," you might kid yourself. But come Monday evening, you have to realise there is no Neville-Carragher pill to cure yourself from accepting the weekend is, in fact, over.

Forgetting to alter your fantasy team before the Friday night kick-off

Most people sort their fantasy team for the week close up to the usual deadline of 11.30 Saturday morning. With the Friday kick-off, however, that deadline is instead at 19.00. So anyone who captained an Arsenal player against Bournemouth last Saturday, you might want to have a quick shuffle around. Best of luck.

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