What do you have on tap? The weekly Premiership post

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Being a lover of all things British, and since the Premiership is one of the only leagues I truly follow, I will be adding this little ditty into the post rotation.

The Premiership opened up this past weekend and in less than a week, last seasons champs are already in 11th place. Last seasons runners up, Chelsea, are sitting in third after there 2-1 win over Reading today. Chelsea fielded a cracking squad today that included Petr Chech. One might question why this might seem odd. The reason would be that this is the fixture that put Chech out for most of Chelsea's season last year and according some analysts, cost them the Prem for the third year in a row. Being a Chelsea fan, I think the team did rather well in the absence of Chech. Petr is a great keeper, one of the best in the league. At this level though, you can't rely on one player. Sure, your star keeper goes out a week into the season but you have to bounce back. Chelsea also lost on John Terry, the immortal, at points throughout the season. Some say he got injured during the Carling Cup final, I say he was off to have a sword fight with Keith Richards to see who would be the only one, the highlander. This is the point where my mind is started the Highlander tv theme.

Speaking of things that will survive nuclear fallout, Manchester United is the other thing that has drawn my attention so far. They are not even close to the top 5 teams in the league at the moment and you have to wonder if Sir Alex hasn't been holding back signing more than one superb player during each transfer season. Sure, Tevez is good but when you have Rooney gone until October and Saha injured,(he was didn't play today) you have to have a more solid base. United is full of wonderful players. There is no denying that their position as one of the top teams in the league since before I was born has gained them some of the better players in the world. But that must be awkward at United's camps when all the summer arrivals come in. You have players that come from the four corners of the world and most of them play different styles of ball.

I think this is one of the fundamentally inherent problems with English football and their National team as well. England has more football clubs than any country in the world. They Premiership could easily be filled by all English players but half the Premier league is imports. I think that is a good thing but at the same time it hurts the prospects of younger players that didn't have the drive to make it big in football. And these younger players are kids that could go on to be in the ranks of the national teams. They could be real talent but they are getting looked over because the Prem bosses are looking beyond England, instead of looking at what the local breweries are putting out. That's what's on tap this week for the Premiership.