Its all to play for. The season’s young. There’s everything to win, nothing to lose. Its a fair game. Except when its not particularly fair. Its not fair for Chelsea to have bought Diego Costa and then use him to personally destroy the high hopes of Swansea. Its not fair that Spurs pissed away 100 million quid on useless players last year when other teams make just one significant acquisition and it changes their fortunes. Its not fair that Spurs drew at Sunderland having twice been in the lead. And its not fair that Arsenal… well, anything to do with them is not really fair.

Is it fair on Newcastle fans that Alan Pardew is still their manager? Though one thinks not for much longer as he is destined to be a very early, premature almost, one for the chop. And is it fair that when Spurs go to all that trouble to steal Southampton’s manager because he seemed to be doing a pretty good job there, we now see Potechino’s replacement doing even better?? Is that fair?? I don’t think so. Southampton in the top four?? Whatever next?

Diego Costa is the undoubted star purchase of the summer. With number two going to Cesc Fabregas. Who should really have gone back to Arsenal but at the last moment was heard to say ‘I’m not going back to those tossers’. I’m just reporting what I heard, even though there were rumours that Wenger didn’t want the Spaniard back because he’s quite ugly.

But he doesn’t play ugly. He’s ‘assisted’ in as many goals in the first four games of the season than Eden Hazard managed all last year, and he was Chelsea’s player of the year, deservedly so. Whilst Costa has scored 7 goals in 4 matches. Ok, he can’t keep that up but that is quite awesome. Fernando Torres took 43 games to score 7.

And Costa is the perfect fit for Chelsea. Because he’s a treacherous, back-stabbing, disloyal scumbag who, in former years, would have been hanged for high treason. He’s a Brazillian. Born there. Has one of those ridiculously long Brazillian names from which ‘Diego Costa’ is just the first part of a seven page list of every relative who ever provided but one DNA contribution to his body. He played for Brazil. Whoever wins what, to play for Brazil is the ultimate aspiration, the absolute inclusion into the most fab club in the world. So he left, abandoned them, and became Spanish. And got royally fucked at the World Cup. But that’s not the point. I’m not sure what is; I never do. But he changed international shirts mid-career and that is totally unacceptable. He might as well be Scottish if he wants to abandon heritage, history and class.

Today we see if Louis Van Gaal can beat Alan Pardew to early dismissal. Because if his 150 million pounds worth of recent buys doesn’t perform well enough to see off QPR at Old Trafford, they’ll be calling for his head too. And wearing green shirts again, demanding that the Glazers sell the club to Asda, complaining about their ‘right ‘to be in the Champions League, blah, blah, northern blah.

John Terry never apologised to anyone named Ferdinand for the racial abuse he gave to Anton. Rio’s pissed off.

Ahhhhh, welcome to the football season.

A xxxx