The 2008/09 Season is literally two weekends away and already excitement is growing up and down the country as the anticipation for another Premier League campaign kicks in. Once again, big money signings have arrived, new managers installed and new teams are about to experience what competing in the best League in the world is all about. Here’s part one of our preview to what is exciting us in the run up to the 2008/09 campaign:

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The Sven Goran Eriksson Saga is finally over at Manchester City after the club finally announced that the Swede has departed with the Mexican national job his likely destination. Now that the debacle is finally over, club owner Thaksin Shinawatra has to find a replacement to appease the fans who had generally taken Eriksson to their hearts after a good first season.

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It’s a pretty safe assumption to say we’d all be made up with a world where there was football on TV every single day. Likewise I’d be secure in saying most guy’s partners wouldn’t be particularly thrilled ay the prospect - expect for mine clearly! But maybe they have a point. No doubt TV ratings would soar but could such a thing actually damage football?

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It’s been a tough old season for Avram Grant. Constantly cast into Jose Mourinho’s illustrious shadow, the Israeli manager has endured the jeers of critics, players and the club’s fans.

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The misfiring Gunners visit fortress Stamford Bridge this weekend as they look to end their recent 4-match drawing run. Chelsea Head Coach Avram Grant will be out to prove he has the tactical know-how to win the big games after failing in previous matches with the current top 2. Arsene Wenger needs to get his young guns winning again; however, the Blues are currently on a 77-match unbeaten League run at the Bridge, so the Frenchman may have his work cut out.

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Granted, talks of the quadruple are just a distant memory but should Avram really face the sack?

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If The New Football Pools had run a poll at the beginning of the season asking who are the likeliest managers to get the boot this season, I sincerely doubt Jose Mourinho and Martin Jol’s names would have passed many lips.

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Avram Grant’s Chelsea side travel to Fratton Park with their title rivals fully in their sights and face a Portsmouth side they’ve a superb record against. The Blues have won all 9 Premier League encounters with Pompey and kept 8 clean-sheets in the process. In fact Chelsea’s good run against the South-Coast club stretches back over 50 years and a total of 21 League games (14 wins & 7 draws).

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Chelsea were written off as silverware contenders by many of the so-called ‘experts’ of the game when Roman Abramovich replaced the enigmatic Portuguese man of war Jose Mourinho with the dour Israeli Avram Grant back in September, but 5 months later on the Blues are back in the Premier League title race and still in contention for all the cup competitions. So was Avram’s appointment a masterstroke by Roman or has Grant just carried on where the ‘special one’ left off?

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The South-West London rivals meet at Craven Cottage on New Years Day with Roy Hodgson taking charge of Fulham for the first time. After a surprising battling performance at Birmingham the Cottagers will start 2008 in good spirits after all it was their first point on the road since October. Avram Grant is facing a hard New Year with a mounting injury list and the departure of several key members of the squad for the African Cup of Nations.

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