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It’s Monday, which must mean James Richardson and his merry band of men are back with another edition of Football Weekly.

Barry Glendenning expresses his delight at the goal bonanza in the Premier League, which saw Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle United all win 6-0, while Fulham held Manchester United to a 2-2 draw, and Bolton Wanderers made Avram Grant’s start to life at West Ham United even more miserable.

In Championship news, James Dart marvels over the exploits of Craig Bellamy on his Cardiff City debut, and wonders whether QPR can continue their winning ways.

Finally, Raphael Honigstein rounds up the first weekend of the Bundesliga, and helps us look forward to the second legs of the European qualifiers in midweek – with Liverpool’s Europa League future far from certain as they take on Trabzonspor, and Tottenham Hotspur hoping to see off those pesky Young Boys in the Champions League.

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James Richardson, Sean Ingle, Barry Glendenning and the one and only Fernando Duarte make up the panel for this first Football Weekly proper of the new season.

We begin by marvelling at Ian Holloway’s Blackpool. The worst side in the history of the Premier League (TM) confounded the critics by hammering Wigan 4-0. Only Chelsea loooked more impressive. And Aston Villa, if we’re being generous.

Meanwhile, it was a weekend to forget for pretty much every top-flight goalkeeper with the exception of Manchester City’s Joe Hart, while Joe Cole started his Anfield career with a red card as he was sent off for Liverpool against Arsenal. Has anyone else made a worse debut?

Finally, we look forward to the midweek European games, including Tottenham’s Champions League qualifier against Young Boys.

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• Uefa hold Champions and Europa League qualifying draws
• Liverpool face either Rabotnicki or Mika Ashtarak

Celtic will play the Portuguese side Braga in the third qualifying round of the Champions League.

The Scottish Premier League club will play away in the first leg of the tie on 27 or 28 July with the return match at Parkhead on 3 or 4 August. Victory would take Celtic through to join the likes of Tottenham, Sampdoria and Sevilla in the play-offs for a place in the group stages.

Meanwhile the draw for the third qualifying round of the Europa League pitted Liverpool against either Rabotnicki, last season’s Macedonian runners-up, or Mika Ashtarak, who are currently fourth in Armenia’s STAR Premier League after 13 games. Rabotnicki won the first leg, at their own Filip II Arena in Skobje, 1-0 on Thursday.

Hibernian will play either Videoton or Maribor, runners-up in Hungary and Slovenia respectively. The first leg of their second qualifying round match finished 1-1 in Gyor, Hungary last night.

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