Manchester City 2 - 3 LIVERPOOL [Ireland 19', Garrido 41'; Torres 55' 73', Kuyt 90+'], EPL G7

There is something special brewing at Anfield Road this season. There's a buzz. There's self-belief. There's beautiful football and there's victories. We're only seven matches into the Premier League season but Liverpool have already sent a clear message to all the pretenders. What you can do, we can do better. A goal down against Middlesbrough with four minutes to go? No problem. Step up captain fantastic, Steven Gerrard. End result? Victory in injury time as the midfielder with the gifted right-foot sends an eighteen yard thunderbolt into the top right hand corner of the Boro net. A goal down against United within the first five minutes? No problem. Step up promising Dutch winger, Ryan Babel. A perfectly weighted assist from compatriot Dirk Kuyt and Babel does the rest by striking the ball into the net with aplomb to secure a famous victory and exorcise the voodoo trap imposed upon us by the bastards down the M62 with less than thirteen minutes to go. But what about when you find yourselves two-goals down at half-time, away from home, against a team that's now theoretically the richest club in the world and owner of the British club transfer-fee record? No problem. Come back after the break, play some sublime one-touch football and hassle the Manchester City defence ragged, till they're begging for redemption and resorting to desperate tackles. Flair isn't enough to beat the best in the business, especially when it's against a team that's more desperate than any other to win a title that's eluded them since 1990. And when you've got the world's greatest striker within your ranks, there's every chance you can make a serious and sustained challenge on the ultimate prize. It's results in matches like these that separate the boys from the men, the pretenders from the contenders, the one's who want it and the one's who don't. At the risk of getting ahead of myself, let it be known here today that Liverpool FC have finally arrived. For the first time in a decade, there's a growing belief that The Reds can make a genuine assault on the world's greatest club football league title. Maybe it is too early to make such bold predictions, but if today's performance was any indication of things to come, by God, the others better watch out because we're comin' after you. COME ON YOU REDS!!! YNWA! [MATCH REPORT]

Tottenham Hotspur 0 - 1 HULL CITY [Geovanni 9'], EPL G7

A special mention to Premier League debutantes, Hull City AFC. Five years ago, the Yorkshire-based club were competing with the likes of Kidderminster Harriers (to a pick a random club! :P) and Scunthorpe United in English football's fourth-tier league. However, heavy investment in players just after the turn-of-the-century saw them gain promotion to the third-tier league at the end of the 2003/04 season, a rise that continued in subsequent seasons and culminated in their first-ever visit to Wembley in their 104-year-history earlier this May. By defeating Bristol City in front of a crowd of nearly 87,000 in the play-off final, Hull achieved the impossible by securing promotion into the world's most competitive and greatest club football league. Their rise has been nothing short of magical, inspirational and meteoric. Having made it to the Premier League, nobody, not even their own fans gave them a chance to survive relegation at the first-instance. It seems everybody except the club itself. The season might only be seven games old but already Hull have overcome what many expected to be their primary objective: getting more points than the record-breaking nadir of eleven points set by last season's whipping boys, Derby County. Not only do they already have fourteen points, but they find themselves in third position in the table, ahead of giants such as Manchester United and Arsenal, and behind no less than Chelsea and Liverpool. Noscitur a sociis? (A thing is known by the company it keeps?) Perhaps not, and it is quite possible the early successes will have now gone to every player's head and usher in a period of decline that extends itself to the end of the season and demotion back into the poorly-named second-tier, The Championship. Many of their own fans who cannot believe the dream start this season are prepared for the worst. They know the good times will probably not last. But given how well they've done so far, they deserve every positive accolade.

Defeating Fulham on their Premier League debut might've seemed lucky, and the shock defeat of Arsenal at The Emirates nothing short of a fluke, but what happens when you win your third match on the road and the opposition are some clubs called Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspurs? Granted, the two conquered clubs are in 18th and 20th place respectively this season but they're not small clubs either and Hull's achievement is truly remarkable. Four away games and three victories. Unbelievable. And to think they probably spent the least money this summer of all the Premier League clubs. There were even third-tier clubs who spent more than twice of what Hull spent this summer. But it appears manager Phil Brown is having the last laugh (for now). Perhaps he is the right Brown to be leading the country at the moment. It is great to see a manager investing in talent rather than procuring the best that money can buy (hello Spurs?). His acquisitions this summer include several players on free-transfers, including Brazilian Geovanni who scored a scorcher (YTube) against Arsenal last weekend, and followed it up with a similarly unstoppable thirty-yard thunderbolt (YTube) against Spurs yesterday. Many commentators initially criticised Phil Brown for securing the services of several supposed 'has-beens' and unpredictable players such as Nick Barmby and Geovanni. Again, Phil Brown is having the last laugh. What these commentators seem to have ignored is the fact that many of these players have arrived at Kingston-upon-Hull with a lot to prove. The criticism has inspired them to reach new heights with a team that is under no pressure to achieve big things. Even if Hull City don't manage to survive their first season in the Premier League, they've outdone initial expectations and added to the colourful history of the world's greatest football league. GO ON YOU TIGERS!!!

"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." -George Gobal

For the first time since moving here sixteen months ago, I experienced a power cut. Luckily it only lasted a few minutes but I wonder what set it off. A timely reminder to invest in an extra battery for the laptop and healthy food that can be eaten without heating up.